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On October 23 and 30 the three Roman Catholic Bishops of Puerto Rico ordered pastoral letters to be read in the island's churches, emphasizing their long-standing opposition to the governor and declaring it a sin to vote for his Popular Democratic Party. The Church has been unable to...
Toward Futility. Nobody in the U.S. was more sensitive to the spreading Protestant worries than U.S. Catholic clergymen, some of whom have flatly stated their support for the constitutional separation of church and state (TIME, Oct. 10). Sharp criticism of the Puerto Rican bishops' pastoral letter came from an...
Toward Excommunication. It was a speech that he might well have to make. At week's end came the second pastoral letter from Puerto Rico's implacable hiearchy. This time the bishops went out of their way to see that there was no mistaking their meaning: not only...
Until a fortnight ago, when the island's three Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party, Puerto Rico's gubernatorial campaign was a race without an issue. Muñoz' opponent...
The 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...