Catholic Archbishop in Cuba Criticizes Government

The Miami Herald ^ | 8/29/14 | Nora Gamez Torres

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In an unusual gesture for a member high in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy in Cuba, the Apostolic nuncio Bruno Musaro spoke openly about Cuba’s “extreme poverty and human and civil degradation.”

Musaro made his controversial remarks while on vacation in Italy after holding a Mass in the San Pio de Pietrelcina park, in the Italian municipality of Vignacastrisi.

The Cuban people are “victims of a socialist dictatorship that has kept them subjugated for the past 56 years,” Musaro said, according to the Italian newspaper, Lecce News24.

“I’m thankful to the pope for inviting me to this island, and I hope to leave once that the socialist regime has disappeared indefinitely,” said Musaro, a Vatican ambassador living in Cuba since 2011. “Only liberty can bring hope to the Cuban people,” he said.

The Italian newspaper said his remarks were “a cry for help, a call to the weapons of conscience and common sense” made by the diplomatic envoy from the Holy See, who also said regarding Cubans, “The only hope for a better life is to escape the island.”

[LucianOfSamasota]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21008.html

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/congressman-serrano-praises-castro/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

http://archive.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2007/castro/welcome.asp

http://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_119_Arns-Fidel.html

[Prospero]

Count on the Captive Press to trumpet “controversial” statements by a curia certain to be rewarded with harassment upon his return to that Marxist paradise while ignoring daily injustices, apparently without “controversy,” in Castro’s Gulag.