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Said its president. Rabbi David I. Golo-vensky: "Voting for a presidential candidate because he is a Catholic or vot ing against him because he belongs to the Catholic faith is a sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition...
...Spanish-born (most of them anti-Franco, despite Castro's accusation), and another 100 are foreigners from other countries. Although nearly 85% of Cuba's 6,700,000 population is nominally Catholic, regular church attendance is confined mostly to women and children. Castro himself went to Jesuit-run schools for eleven years and wore a religious medal as a guerrilla in the hills. But he is divorced (though not remarried) and does not go to church. His ten-year-old son, under his mother's influence, has become a Methodist...
...church conferred priesthood on him and the hierarchy entrusted him with an apostolate. Furthermore, the practice of the virtue of poverty, enjoined on every priest, demands personal detachment from all worldly possessions, both in life and more so. in death." Other publications were more blunt. Complained the Jesuit monthly Miles Christi: "When priests draw their wills, 95% of their possessions end up in greedy relatives' hands, and the church is completely forgotten.* Priests always call on others to contribute to the church, but have little themselves to contribute in life and noth ing at all in death...
...Jesuit William Lynch in his book Christ and Apollo illustrates the perpetual tug of war within Christianity between the Old Testament and the New. When he stresses the importance of facing up to the world -reaching the infinite through the finite-he is following the message of the prophets of Israel to whom justice on earth was the way of God. When he derides "do-it-yourself" salvation, however, he is grinding the theological ax of faith v. works, which marks the dividing point between Judaism and Christianity...
...Says Jesuit Father Philip Caraman. a vice-postulator of the martyrs' cause: "I have no doubt at all that the miracles will be worked. These martyrs were English and Welsh, after all, and it's a safe presumption that in heaven they have the interests of their fellow countrymen at heart." In an office in London's Farm Street, headquarters of the canonization cause, a brand-new folder labeled MIRACLES was placed hopefully in a metal filing cabinet...