Word: munoz
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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...
...evidence, the prelates cited the lack of religious training in public schools and Munoz Marin's "antidemocratic attempt to limit clergy solely to religious functions." The bishops did not indicate what ecclesiastical penalties might be dealt out to the many islanders who presumably will ignore the prohibition. Asked point-blank if it would be a sin to violate the injunction, Archbishop Davis said it would...
Clinics & Training. Three-term Governor Munoz Marin, who was brought up a Catholic but seldom attends Mass, has long been at odds with the bishops. The principal quarrels are over birth-control clinics, instituted by Munoz' predecessors but continued by him, and his refusal to grant public school children time off for religious training...
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...
Right & Duty. It seemed doubtful, despite the fuss, whether Munoz Marin would get much relief from the Vatican. Last winter, at a diocesan synod of Rome (TIME, Feb. 8), Pope John XXIII asserted the right and even duty of the church to advise the faithful on how to vote in elections. In practice, the Vatican seems to prefer that this right be exercised with great restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions...