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...Signed by Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 80, Archbishop of Havana and Primate of Cuba; Santiago Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes, who saved Castro's life in 1953 when he was fleeing the wrath of Dictator Fulgencio Batista after an abortive uprising; the Vatican-appointed Apostolic Administrator, Evelio Diaz; and six other bishops...
...office to give his congratulations. Said Sardinas, who is chief chaplain of the rebel army: "It was inconceivable that Prensa Libre should oppose the very nation that made it great." Cuba's other six bishops have kept their own council, and Havana's Manuel Cardinal Arteaga is 80, ill and inactive...
...Better World. Though some Vatican leaders still call the Latin American clergy as a whole the church's "biggest single blot," the new ways are spreading. In Havana, Manuel Cardinal Arteaga has avoided taking sides, but Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes of Santiago specifically condemned government violence in a pastoral letter last month. Most of the priests in Oriente province openly sympathize with Rebel Leader Castro. In Venezuela the leading Catholic prelate, Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias, dared to condemn the stern dictatorship of Marcos Perón Jimónez for the inequitable distribution of the country...
After he left the clinic where he had been treated for a head injury last month, Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana, maintained an austere silence while Cuba buzzed with rumors that he had been pistol-whipped during a search of his palace by agents looking for hidden revolutionaries or weapons (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the cardinal shed a little light on the mystery; in a pastoral letter he said he had been the victim of "a common criminal attempt" by men whom he did not know, but whom he wished to forgive "in the Christian way." That...
...Cuban Bureau of Investigation swooped down on the cardinal's palace one night shortly after the rebellion had been suppressed. In the midst of a frenzied city-wide search for anti-Batista plotters, they had picked up a tip that the cardinal was harboring fugitive revolutionaries. Arteaga, who had gone to bed, tried to send them away, but the agents forced their way into his private apartments, and in the scuffle a jittery cop laid the cardinal's forehead open with a gun butt. Finding no fugitives, the police rushed their victim to the hospital and tried...