Word: maisonet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their pre-election pastoral letters, Archbishop Davis and two other Puerto Rican bishops had warned that voting for able Governor Muñoz was a sin, but did not attach ecclesiastical penalties. Two weeks ago, while all three bishops were absent from the island, Father Thomas Maisonet, pastor of San Juan Cathedral, took it on himself to attach a penalty: he warned that Catholics who disobeyed the pastoral letters must not only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian...
...birth control, sterilization and common-law marriage (TIME. Oct. 31), warned that Catholics who voted for the P.D.P. would "inevitably" be guilty of sin. Nevertheless, Muñoz won an overwhelming victory at the polls. At all Sunday Masses last week, the pastor of San Juan Cathedral, Father Thomas Maisonet, told parishioners who voted for P.D.P. that they must confess this "sin" before they can receive Communion again. Speaking on his own authority, but evidently with the bishops' backing, Maisonet also said that, to gain absolution, penitents must promise not to support the P.D.P. in the future unless...
Legal Right. Reaction to Maisonet's statement and to similar edicts laid down by priests throughout Puerto Rico was violent. Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the P.D.P. mayoress of San Juan, said: "At that moment, I felt that Father Maisonet was more a sinner than myself, for he was denying Communion to many good people who did not in their hearts believe that they had committed a sin." Doña Felisa defiantly announced that she intended to receive Communion without confessing or repenting her vote...