Jersey Hiradó, 1964 (45. évfolyam, 3-39. szám)
1964-04-10 / 15. szám
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On May 18, 1961, after having been arrested three times spending 16 days in jail, and 12 days in the United States Embassy which is under the care of Swiss diplomats, Fr. Galloway left Cuba for the United States with forged passport and papers. His departure from the country was one month and one day after the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Fr. Galloway was ordained in 1949 and earned his master’s degree in sociology at the Catholic University of America. The Bronx-born Augustinian also studied at: Villanova University. Following his ordination he served as chaplain at Msgr. Bonner High School, Drexel Hill, Pa. One newspaper’s reports of open churches, freedom for the Church and for priests, and lack of persecution by the communists under Castro were branded as lies by Fr. Galloway. At Villaneuva there were some 1,500 students when he began his assignment there, Fr. Galloway recalled, and by the time of the Bay of Pigs, the number was down to about 300. The others had either fled the country because they had sought to free Cuba from red rule, or had been intimidated FR. NORMAN GALLOWAY into leaving the university by the communists. Six churches in Camaguay, Fr. Galloway recalls, were destroyed by the communists following the invasion. The altars were destroyed — the tabernacles shot open or pried open and the Blessed Sacrament strewn around the floor. In the church at Vedado, a section of Havana, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as the priest tried to open the tabernacle to distribute Holy Communion during Mass he found that the tabernacle had been broken open and the Sacred Hosts stolen. The chapel at the University, Fr. Galloway said, is now used as a warehouse. The exile of priests and religious by orders of the red regime, and refusal to allow but a few “foreign” priests into the country, Fr. Galloway said, has forced the closing of many churches outside the large cities. There are some Canadian priests and a few Spanish still functioning in the country, in addition to native Cubans, but their activities are restricted. The churches are open, true, Fr. Galloway declared, but the people entering them are in constant fear of harassment by the communists. Vocations in Cuba, the former missionary said, are not numerous, primarily because of the thinking of many families that only the “misfits” among their sons or daughters should be permitted to enter a seminary or convent. There is no pride among the Cubans over a son who becomes a priest, rather a feeling of shame seems to result. Fr. Galloway placed the blame for this thinking on the lack of parochial education facilities even before the advent of Castro’s red sweep. In Havana, he recalled, there were about four free parochial schools. Other Catholic schools were private institutions which because of tuition charges, etc., were available only to the sons and daughters of the financially well-to-do. If the children of the poorer families went to school at all, they went to State schools, receiving little religious instruction. The illiteracy rate is very high. Now religious instruction must be given in churches since the schools are nationalized. Tracing the shortage of priests, Fr. Galloway said that before Castro took over the country, there were some 700 priests serving the 6,000,000 souls on, the island. Of these only 200 were Cubans and the rest Spanish, Canadian, American, or from other foreign countries. The “foreign” priests, particularly the Spanish, were driven from the country — for that matter so was Bishop Boza Masvidal, a native Cuban. Many others left because they were unable to work under the reds. As in other communist countries, Fr. Galloway said, an attempt was made to establish a “national” Catholic Church, but only two or three of the ordained priests, and none of the Bishops of the country would defect from the Church of Rome to form the nucleus of the “national” church. Two Bishops Arc Named for Havana VATICAN CITY (NC) — Two new auxiliary bishops have been appointed for the Havana (Cuba) Archdiocese by Pope Paul VI. They are Fr. Ferdinando Azcarate, S.J., and Msgr. Alfredo Llaguno Canals, who is currently the vicar general of the archdiocese. Archbishop Evelio Diaz y Cia, the head of the Cuban archdiocese, succeeded the- late Manuel Car-Chambers Funeral Home Dispone di paziose camere con aria condizionata Facilita* di grande parcbeggio per automobilt * 825 Chambers Street Phone: EXport 6-3354 ' JOSEPH J. MAZZOLLA, Mgr. dinal Arteaga y Betancourt upon the latter’s death in March, 1963. Auxiliary- Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal of Havana is in exile. Pope Paul has also raised the Dioceses of Madrid and Barcelona in Spain to archdioceses. The present head of the Barcelona Archdiocese, Archbishop Gregorio Modrego y Casaus, has had the personal title of archbishop since 1952. To the vacant Madrid post the Pope named Archbishop Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez, who has been serving as Archbishop of Saragossa. In another action affecting the Melkite Bishop Hakim To Visit United States JERUSALEM, Israel (NC) — Bishop Georges Hakim of Acre in Galilee will visit the United States early in July to preside at the fifth Melkite Convention of North America which will be held in Akron, Ohio. Bishop Hakim will represent Melkite Rite Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh of Antioch. The last Melkite convention was presided over by Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York. Spanish Hierarchy Pope Paul named Bishop Vicente Enrique y Tarancon of Solsona as Coadjutor to Archbishop Javier Lauzurica y Torralba of Oviedo. 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