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Pope hopeful of expanded freedoms
Charity work, education named as key areas in need of growth
Main pro-British paramilitary groi^
withdraws from peace negotiate
HAVANA (AP) — Pope John
Paul II gave Cuba’s church an
ambitious mission: to expand its
role in Cuban society through
Catholic education, greater ac
cess to mass media, more priests
and more charity work. Church
men said Mon
day they were
optimistic they
can fulfill at
least some of
those goals.
The pope
flew out of
Cuba on Sun
day with strong
calls for “greater
liberty and plu
ralism” on the communist is
land, but his five-day visit also
seemed to establish an unprece
dented level of cooperation with
Fidel Castro’s government.
“I believe the balance was
very positive and hope that the
word of the pope will help a
peaceful transformation of cur
rent structures toward forms of
John Paul II
greater liberty, greater partic
ipation,” Cardinal Angelo So-
dano, the Vatican secretary of
state, told Vatican Radio on re
turn to Italy.
It was not clear if the pontiff
won specific commitments from
Cuba; indeed, those were not the
main point of his pastoral visit to
a country that abandoned official
atheism only in 1992.
“The visit was never conditioned”
on solving specific church com
plaints, Cuban church spokesperson
Orlando Marquez said.
Yet the pontiff laid out a broad
series of goals during his visit.
Some seem unlikely: Cuban of
ficials say they want to keep pub
lic education a state monopoly
and will probably not honor the
papal request to reopen Catholic
schools. But they indicated they
might even favor expanded
church efforts at catechism and
moral education.
Other goals could see partial
success. The pope urged Castro to
release political prisoners. The
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government made no comment,
but has often released some pris
oners following visits by other
prominent visitors.
Yet other requests will be sub
ject to negotiations — and occa
sional conflicts — with a govern
ment that seems to have opened a
more receptive ear to churches.
“These things can be discussed,”
Culture Minister Abel Prieto, a
member of the Communist Party’s
elite Political Bureau, said during
the trip.
The pope urged his bishops to
“expand that dialogue,” but in
sisted that in demanding greater
liberty the church “is not asking
for a gift” that depends on “the
will of the authorities,” because
religious freedom is “an inalien
able human right."
In meetings Sunday, the pope
told Catholic clergy apd laypeople
what the church should do with
that freedom in order to “occupy
her rightful place in the midst of
the people” — not merely preach
behind closed doors.
LONDON (AP) — Choosing to
jump before being pushed, North
ern Ireland’s major pro-British
paramilitary group withdrew from
peace talks today because its out
lawed wing admitted to killing
three Catholics.
The Ulster Democratic Party, the
lawful representatives of the out
lawed Ulster Defense Association,
did not wait for a verdict from the
British and Irish governments on
formal complaints other parties
filed earlier today.
Their departure from the talks,
which began in June 1996 and were
supposed to conclude by May, will
likely raise widespread fears of even
more attacks against the north’s Ro
man Catholic minority.
Ulster Democrats leader Gary
McMichael said he had little choice
but to withdraw after the UDA’s ad
mission last week it was responsible
for at least three of the eight
Catholics slain in Northern Ireland
since Christmas.
That admission directly violated
a cardinal requirement for partici
pants in the talks — that they “ac
tively oppose” and “renounce” the
use of violence.
“What we are dealing with is a
fait accompli," McMichael said. “It
is clear that the other parties have a
firm view ... that we should be ex
cluded from this process.”
McMichael said he would not
“It is clear that the
other parties have
a firm view ... that
we should be
excluded from
this process.”
Gary McMichael
Ulster Democrats leader
break his ties to the UDA
“We are not going to sit in the
plenary this afternoon to have our
selves humiliated in such a fash
ion,” he said, referring to the nego-
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