December 05, 2007
Cuban police desecrates church
AFP has more on how thugs from Cuban State Security attacked and arrested several dissidents, as they marched to a Catholic Church in Santiago de Cuba.
"They barged in spraying gas in the faces of people from those spray cans, and went about dishing out blows and shouting," said Jose Conrad the priest of Santa Teresita church.
"The repressors, headed by a lieutenant colonel and other state security officers, desecrated the church of Santa Teresita after kicking one of its doors open and savagely assaulting the peaceful dissidents," said Elizardo Sanchez, president of the Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission.
Blessed is Father Jose, but his bosses in the church hierarchy, to the detriment of the Cuban people, willfully or not, don't have a clue.
A spokesman for Cuba's Catholic bishops, apparently suffering from amnesia and forgetting where he lives, told AFP the police action was "unusual," and that he hopes it proves to be "an isolated incident."
I understand that Cuba's church leaders have to lead there, and sometimes, tending to the spiritual needs of their flock means biting their tongues and biding their time about more earthly matters. But this vile act by the police cannot be dismissed as being "unusual" or "isolated." To think that of Cuba today, is laughable and sadly indicative of how out step the church is today.
If the faith that the church is suppose to propogate and nurture is to have any real meaning, it must be backed by action. You don't just talk about loving each other and building a better life, you have do something about it.
For that church leadership, that should mean stepping up on behalf of the faithful and standing up to the dictatorship and demanding that Cubans be treated with respect, and that Cubans be freed.
Instead, too often the church leaders just act like sheep.
Posted by Marc at December 5, 2007 09:42 PM
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Hola. mira esto.
http://www.tu.tv/videos/grave-muy-grave
Ciao
Posted by: Il Mango di Treviso ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 5, 2007 10:16 PM
Cartoons against the Catholic Church in the Cuban Press in 1961.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/church-cartoons.htm
Posted by: delacova at December 5, 2007 11:39 PM
I sometimes think that the Church fears a post-Castro Cuba in which they will have to compete for the souls of the Cuban people against younger, hungrier, American Evangelical churches, to whom they have lost so many of the faithful in Latin America over the last few decades.
Posted by: Frankestein En La Playa at December 5, 2007 11:59 PM
The Catholic Church in Cuba under Castro has been mostly competing against Santeria and popular religiosity beliefs.
Posted by: delacova at December 6, 2007 01:08 AM
Donde esta el mariconson Cardenal cubano Ortega , porque no se pronuncia
Donde esta el Vaticano, porque no se pronuncia el Papa antes este atropello
Donde estan las autoridades esclesiasticas de Los Estados Unidos , porque no se pronuncian
2:16 AM
Posted by: Abajofidel at December 6, 2007 02:21 AM
This is a sign that those dissidents celebrating International Human Rights Day better be prepared for the worst. Clearly, these detentions are aimed at the growing numbers of people who oppose the regime.
We can only hope and pray for the best and do our part on December 10, 2007.
Posted by: Demarchena at December 6, 2007 08:07 AM
Here is a stunner. CNN posted about it.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/05/cuba.dissidents/index.html
Posted by: pototo at December 6, 2007 12:21 PM
Alfredo Pong cartoon on recent crisis
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/pong/TIRA-273-WEB.jpg
Posted by: delacova at December 6, 2007 05:17 PM
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