Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Catholic authorities in the U.S. maintained a discreet silence about the controversy, but privately many felt that the Puerto Rican bishops had gone too far. Legally there was no doubt that the bishops were within their rights. The Vatican generally seemed to support the bishops, recalling that Pope Pius XII had declared it a sin to vote for the Communists in Italy's 1948 election (an edict that the Italian clergy was never able to enforce). Nevertheless there was room for argument and interpretation...
...manner of action of three Puerto Rican Catholic bishops is just as bad as the attitude and action of several American ministers of religion who directly or indirectly persuade or force their subjects not to vote for a Catholic candidate for the presidency. In Puerto Rico the action was not motivated by a religion issue, but rather by a moral issue involving principles and practices contrary to sound Christianity, while here in the U.S. there is no moral issue involved, but only bigotry...
...idea first took shape in 1956 at New York's now-famed Junior High School 43 (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959), where only 40% of the predominantly Negro and Puerto Rican students went on to graduate from senior high school. They came from families of six people living in one room, where dinner was likely to be one hamburger per child, served from a paper bag. Could such youngsters be college material...
...three Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico got a stinging lesson: Puerto Rican voters hold to the mainland U.S. view on separation of church and state. Though 90% Catholic, and warned by a pair of pastoral letters that supporting Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democrats could lead to excommunication (TIME. Nov. 7), the voters gave well-liked Muñoz Marin 58% of the vote and a fourth straight term as Governor. Statehood Republican Candidate Luis Ferré trailed with 250,000 votes to 456,000 for Muñoz Marin. The church-backed Christian Action...
...second pastoral letter was read, the choir of one Puerto Rican Church sang an Easter hymn, "Pardon, Pardon." The choir-mistress explained: if the people are wrong in voting for the governor, they need the pardon; if not, the priests need...