Re: [Marxism] Raul Castro attends first beatification ceremony in Cuba

[Adam Richmond <adambrichmond@xxxxxxxxx>]

Raul is the head of state and as such should be at national religious 
gatherings.  His presence is a signal that freedom of religion should be 
tolerated.  I view this as a positive development. 



--- On Sun, 11/30/08, S. Artesian <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: S. Artesian <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] Raul Castro attends first beatification ceremony in Cuba
To: "Adam Richmond" <adambrichmond@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 4:14 PM

That's wonderful news.  I was thinking that something, something I
couldn't 
identify, was missing from the list... and then this post made it all so 
clear.. the list was lacking spiritualism.

Castro attends a beatification ceremony for a church that parceled out 
slaving contracts around the world. Beatification?  Well there's a blow for

science and emancipation.

But it's OK, because this saint ministered to the poor during the 1868-1878

struggles.

That is so uplifting.

Can we get a picture when Raul goes to communion?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sartesian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 6:27 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Raul Castro attends first beatification ceremony in Cuba


> One of the many persistent slanders against the Cuba revolution is
> that there is no religious freedom on the island. In addition, the
> persistence of religious belief among human beings is a challenge
> which some on the political left find extremely hard to comprehend or
> relate to. Since the Pope's visit to Cuba in 1998, relations with the
> Roman Catholic Church have warmed up quite a bit. After John Paul's
> death, Fidel was quick to invite his successor, Benedict, to visit
> there. And earlier this year, the Vatican Foreign Minister, Cardinal
> Tarcisio Bertone, spent a very productive and very well-publicized
> week visiting the island. No date has yet been set for Benedict's
> visit, but that will come in its own good time. All of these visits
> make it harder and harder to justify Washington's blockade of Cuba,
> the only country on the entire planet for which citizens of the
> United States and others "subject to US law" are required to
have
> a permission slip from the federal government to go for a visit.
>
> The report below is from Australia's Roman Catholic news service.
>
> GRANMA articles on "The Father of the Poor"
> http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs2260.html
> ======================================================================
>
> Raul Castro attends beatification
> Published: December 01, 2008
>
> http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=10455
>
> In a sign of improving relations with the Church, Cuban President Raul 
> Castro attended
> the beatification of 19th century "father of the poor" Jose
Olallo on
> Saturday.
>
> BBC News reports the first beatification ceremony in Cuba has been held in

> front
> of thousands of Catholics and President Raul Castro.
>
> It was the final step before sainthood for 19th century friar, Jose 
> Olallo, known
> as the "poor people's priest".
>
> The ceremony in Camaguey was broadcast on state television.
>
> The unannounced arrival of Mr Castro was greeted with applause, a sign of 
> the growing
> rapprochement between the communist state and the Church.
>
> Vatican representative, Cardinal Jose Saraiva from Portugal, presided over

> a Mass
> lasting almost three hours at the Church of the Virgin of Charity.
>
> Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega, papal nuncio Luigi Bonazzi, Camaguey 
> Archbishop Juan
> Garcia, and about 20 Cuban and foreign bishops were also present.
>
> Doves were released and bells rung as Friar Olallo's remains, in a
gold 
> coloured
> urn, were taken in a procession through the city.
>
> Friar Olallo, a member of the Hospitallier Order of Saint John of God, 
> helped the
> sick and wounded during Cuba's first war of independence (1868-1878) 
> against
> Spain.
>
> He defied Spanish orders barring members of religious orders from Cuba, 
> and was
> the sole Hospitallier on the island at the time.
>
> While the ceremony was the first to be held in Cuba, Friar Olallo was not 
> the first
> Cuban to be beatified. Cuban born Fray Jose Lopez Piteira was beatified in

> 2007,
> but the ceremony took place in Spain where he died during the Spanish 
> civil war.
>
> It is second time in a week Mr Castro has been to a church. On Thursday he

> accompanied
> the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to the recently opened Russian 
> Orthodox Cathedral
> in Havana, the BBC says.
>
> "In the face of a materialist culture that we see imposing itself 
> everywhere
> and that pushes aside the weak and the poor, we learn from Olallo the 
> virtues of
> the wisdom of God and how to love thy neighbor universally," said
Cardinal
> Saraiva said according to a Reuters report.
>
> The International Herald Tribune noted the beatification and Raul
Castro's 
> attendance
> could help further improve the once icy relationship between the Church 
> and Cuba's
> communist government.
>
> The ceremony was widely announced in state controlled news media, unusual 
> in a country
> where official news outlets often ignore religious matters, the paper 
> said.
>
> Raul Castro's first diplomatic meeting as head of state was with
Cardinal 
> Tarcisio
> Bertone, the pope's secretary of state whose previously scheduled
visit to 
> the
> island coincided with Fidel's transferal of power.
>
>
> =========================================
>     WALTER LIPPMANN
>     Los Angeles, California
>     Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
>     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
>     "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
> =========================================
>
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