Word: mcmanus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mortal-Sin Vote. The bishops were of no mind to let the issue die. In a second pastoral letter. James P. Davis of San Juan, Aponte Martinez of Lares and James E. McManus of Ponce reiterated and clarified their earlier warning against voting for Munoz. "To violate the law of God, which prohibits supporting a moral without God ... is a clear disobedience against God and evidently...
...office. Last week the point was abruptly revived in sharp specifics-not by evangelical circuit riders spreading bigotry, but by the Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico, two of them born and raised in the continental U.S.: San Juan's Archbishop James Davis (Tucson); Bishop James McManus of Ponce (Brooklyn...
Last summer fiery Bishop McManus helped organize a new Christian Action Party, which he urged all Catholics to support. Caught in a squabble over the validity of the signatures it collected to get on the ballot, the party stands little chance of keeping well-liked Governor Munoz Marin from his fourth term. Even so, Munoz was still angry enough to denounce the bishops' letter as an "incredible medieval interference in a political campaign," promised to bring up the bishops' conduct with Vatican officials after the election...
...Bishop McManus, 59, who arrived in Puerto Rico as a missionary in 1929, became bishop in 1947. Two years later he denounced overpopulated Puerto Rico's legalization of birth control. Bishop McManus is also sad set against a Puerto Rican law that divorces couples who have been separated for three years, and against sterilization of women, a relatively simple procedure in public hospitals...
...week for religious instruction. Pointing out that because of a shortage of classrooms and teachers 62% of Puerto Rico's public school children get only three hours of education a day, Governor Muňoz strongly opposed the bill and it was defeated. A month later Bishop McManus told Catholics in a pastoral letter: "The philosophy of your government makes it responsible for the moral evils that cloud and deChristianize our society." He urged the people to give their support to the newly launched Catholic party...