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...Cuban government also declared open war on that classic enemy of Communism, the Roman Catholic Church. Castro announced: "In the next few days the Revolutionary Government will pass a law declaring void any permit to remain in Cuba held by any foreign priest in our country." New permits might be issued, but only if a priest "has not been combatting the Cuban revolution." The fate of Cuba's 400 Spanish priests also awaits its 139 church schools. Said Castro: "We announce here that in the next few days the Revolutionary Government will pass a law nationalizing the private schools...
...formal unfrocking ceremony in London's medieval Southwark Cathedral. While a choir chanted a somber psalm and middle-aged women prayed in silence, scarlet-hooded bishops cast Vicar Thomas out of the Church of England. They read from I Samuel ("And I will raise me up a faithful priest") and Matthew ("Beware of false prophets"). Then the Bishop of Southwark, Mervyn Stockwood, rose to pass final judgment: "By the authority committed to us by Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, we remove, depose and degrade William Bryn Thomas from all clerical offices...
...Roman Catholic priest, well known both for his courage (he was captured with the paratroopers) and for his bitter opposition to Castro, appeared as a blubbering stool pigeon. "I am completely sorry for what has happened, and I ask the Cuban people to accept my sorrow," he said. "The Americans forced me to do it." Said an invasion survivor, watching the performance on TV in Miami: "I know that man like a brother. He might have been drugged...
...intellectual French Encyclopedists hailed as a philosopher king, Frederick the Great, was described by one British observer as "the completest tyrant God ever made. I had rather be a post horse than his first Minister, or his brother, or his wife." The age worshiped good sense, yet "the High Priest of Reason," Dr. Johnson, would scrape his knuckles with a penknife till they were raw, and insisted on touching every post when walking down a street...
...Pope Pius VII consigned the bones to the care of a priest, Don Francis di Lucia, who had them enshrined in the church of Mugnano del Cardinale near Naples, where they promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration...