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THE VOICE «01 Bhcoyn* Blvd., Miami }S, Ha. Return Pottage Guaranteed VOICE Weekly Publication of the Diocese of Miami Covering the 16 Counties of South Florida VOL. II NO. 18 Price $5 a year ... 15 cents a copy JULY 22, 1960 Sen-—. Kenned—*—y Asks: f*Cuban I s LasI hI Back At Communist Octopus reep Religion Out Of Voting Castro, Called Red LOS ANGELES (NO — J3en. John F. Kennedy, Democratic Puppet, Launches candidate for the presidency, said here he hopes no one will "waste his franchise" by voting for or against him on religious Attack On Church grounds. The Massachusetts Senator, first Catholic to be chosen as- a major party candidate for EXILES TELL 'INSIDE STORY' the presidency since 1928, told delegates to the Democratic national convention: Cuba is striking back to resist creeping strangulation by "My decisions on every public the communistic octopus. policy will be my own — as a Aroused from an almost hypnotic-like spell cast by Fidel' American, a Democrat and a Castro, the predominantly Catholic island republic is fully free man." alert to the threat of Red domination. The Moscow-directed Although the party chose a conspiracy, most Cubans now realize, has had for its ob- Catholic candidate at the con- jective the subjugation of their nation to make it a slave vention, there was a healthy satellite like Poland, Hungary and other "Iron Curtain" balance of Catholic support for countries and to establish, only 90 miles from the United men other than Kennedy. To States, a communist beachhead to threaten all Latin counterbalance the shift of Gov. America. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of Cal- ifornia and Gov. David Law- Fidel Castro himself, many informed sources believe, is a rence of Pennsylvania toward mere figurehead in the world-wide strategy. After taking over Kennedy, there were the speech Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro . Calls Priests "Fascists" his revolution, the communist conspirators are said to be pre- made by Sen, Eugene J. Mc- Exiles Charge He Is A Puppet With Strings Pulled By Moscow pared to eliminate the bearded leader at the proper moment Carthy of Minnesota, a Catholic and sieze openly the government they have been operating be- nominating Adlai Stevenson, and hind the scenes. the seconding speech of U.S. Sen. Thomas B. Dodd of Con- •:™r^ '"'Z"71 Latin Catholic Congress Extends Chains Of Enslavement necticut, also a Catholic, on be- a Anglicans Note | # Already in control of the entire Cuban economy, including half of the candidacy of Sen. the national bank, all land and natural resources, industry, Johnson. Pope's Geniality| To. Form Anti-Red Front labor, the press, radio and television, the Reds have been ex- BUENOS AIRES (NO — An danger of communism" will tending their chains of enslavement around Cuba's schools, its It seemed there were just as LONDON (NO — The official Inter-American Marian congress be studied in the light of Mar- youth and its children. many Catholics working to de- Church of England yearbook urges Anglicans to be "quick here next November will be the ian doctrine to develop a con- feat Mr. Kennedy as there were crete program "in defense of The Church was to have been the object of the final to respond to the geniality of opening move toward molding assault. working in his behalf. the reign of Christ." the new Pope." v the Catholics of North and The convention gave the But this week the totalitarian time-table was upset. As a In its long preface summariz- South America into a united •" Labeling communism "the Harvard-educated Catholic a result of two spontaneous anti . communist demonstrations ing Church of England affairs, front against communism, the worst of heresies," Cardinal Jesuit-trained Protestant as which erupted into violence outside two Catholic churches m the new Crockfords Clerical di- Cardinal-Archbishop of Buenos Caggiano said that through the his running mate on the Dem- Havana within two days, the Red maste'rs were forced to rectory has a special section on Aires announced. Buenos Aires meeting, "under ocratic ticket. summon their puppet premier from a questionable "sick- the papacy which says: the guidance and protection of Antonio Cardinal Caggiano Our Blessed Lady . we, in bed" to launch the first open -attack on Catholic priests. ' By acclamation the 1,521 dele- "Anglicans should be eager to said the meeting, scheduled our American continent ' could gates went "all the. .way with welcome every move that is for Nov. 10 to 13, has the ap- all efficaciously unite in defense Catholic women of Cuba have begun a campaign L.B.J." — nominating Sen. Lyn- made from Rome . Roman proval, encouragement and of Christ, His Church and our of passive resistance against the infiltration of com- don B. Johnson of Texas, the Catholics in England . have benediction of Pope John Christian civilization." munists into the Castro government, the Associated Senate majority leader, as the memories of. persecution and XXIII. The Cardinal said the Press reported late Wednesday. Plans have been made . vice presidential candidate. exclusion from public life which meeting here will be the first The Cardinal indicated he to continue special Masses for a period of 30 days to mark communist oppression. ^Sen. Johnson, a. member of are-at least as powerful as our of a series of similar con- expects large-scale participa- (Continued on Page 13) ^ own fears of Rome." gresses in which the "grave tion in the congress by schol- ars and members of the hier- In a three-hour television harrangue which followed a typical archies of all the countries of "made in Moscow" script, the supposedly ailing Castro call- the Americas. ed Spanish priests in Cuba "Fascists" and Falangists," or sup- * DIC AT ION SATURQAY FOR poerters of the Spanish regime of General Francisco Franco. "An affective and effective The majority of Cuba's 700 priests are from Spain. link that can unite us all in a positive crusade against com- Castro Repeats Threat Chapel'In Shopping Center munism is without doubt," he said, "a profound devotion in Castro urged good Christians to root out those who "turn our countries to the Mother of churches into counter-revolutionary trenches." He denounced Bishop Coleman F. Carroll west section, the chapel will celebrated daily at noon will the Incarnate Word.'" "false Christians who go to church to conspire instead of to will dedicate the new St. Mary's serve the spiritual needs of the provide an, opportunity for shop- pray," and added: Chapel located in the Northside large number of Catholic fam- pers, employes and visitors of Shopping Center, NW 27th Ave. ilies residing in the rapidly the center to assist at Mass. "A small group of Pharasies wants to entrench itself in the and 79th St., at noon Saturday, growing area. Confessions will be heard before 'The Catholic sanctity of \ the temple. It is a group of the rich and privileged July 23. the Masses. (Continued on Page S) ' According to Msgr. P. J. In America' A Low Pontifical Mass will O'Donoghue, V.G., pastor of Adequate parking facilities The third in the series of be celebrated in the chapel, St. Mary Cathedral parish of are provided within a few feet articles entitled "The Cath- which accommodates 600'per- which the new chapel will be of the front entrance to the olic in America" is published sons, immediately following a mission, Masses will be chapel as well as at the rear Cuba Si, Rusiano No on Page 12. The series, writ- the ceremonies of blessing. celebrated on Sunday, July of the building. ten by Father Peter J. Kahili, 24, at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 Lea "Recortes y Comentario" por el Rdo. treats of the position and ex- Located at the north end of a.m., and each Sunday there- St. Mary's Chapel is believed Antonio de Navarrete en la pagina 21 de la perience of Catholics in the the shopping center which oc- after. « to be the first church to provide cupies some 45 acres in the regularly scheduled devotions in United States from colonial "Seccion Espaiioia" heart of Greater Miami's north- In addition, weekday Masses ' a shopping center. times to the present. 40 Priests, Nuns Reported Expelled By Trujillo More than 40 priests and Sis- Seme 46 members of the ians and secular priests, most St. Vincent de Paul have also in the seminary, the visitor re- guests and officials to a recep- ters representing various relig- clergy have been denounced of whom are- Spanish end been exiled, he said. ported, and another priest was tion arranged by the invitation as "enemies of the govern- ious orders have been expelled have returned to their na- given 12 hours to leave when he ment" by Generalissimo Ra- Father Ignacic Pedraz, S. J., of Trujillo. from the Dominican Republic fael Trujillo and forced into tive country. Secular catech- rector of the Jesuit Seminary preached in defense of Archbish- since March, according to a Declaring that "Trujillo exile, he said. These include ists, lay Sisters from Spain in Giudad Trujillo,' was exiled op Lino Zanini, Apostolic Nun- serves only one . God, Trujil- i priest now visiting in the U. S. Jesuits, Carmelites, Augustin- and the Sisters of Charity of on charges of "making bombs" cio, who refused- to welcome lo," the priest, who requested that his name be withheld, said that articles charging the U.S. Missionaries Unharmed Catholic Church with turning toward communism appear in r the government - controlled In Congo, Late Reports Say magazine, "Carib." When celebrating Masses, priests NCWC News Serviee been received from the Steyl, are expected at some time to The two U.S.