On the fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, recalled the feast of St. John Bosco and inspired by his work said: “In the face of the difficulties presented to us by others to teach young people, let us become deaf and continue with them in the style of Don Bosco.” Jesus Christ is our model. […]
Jesus is the Prophet of God, the Father’s envoy, the Holy One of God. The fascination that your person produces cannot be compared to that of any social or political leader of our time or of any era. His figure and message are based on the coherence of life he showed that led him to the final sacrifice on the Cross. When the exercise of power is exercised without principle and without conscience, every spiritual, moral or social authority is lost and falls into authoritarianism, which leads to the imposition of ideas, ignorance or elimination of the adversary, oppression and suppression of freedom. And this, done in a subtle or uninhibited way, leads to the same personal and social result: the destruction of the person and society. He has come into the world to build a new humanity. Jesus reveals God’s love for each of us. His authority is not an oppressive power but a balm that frees us, a new light that illuminates the dark stretches of our existence, a force that encourages us in our struggles, difficulties, trials and temptations. […]
In the most recent printed issue of Palabra Nueva, the Catholic intellectual Dr. Roberto Méndez reviews the months lived in total lockdown during the year 2020 and identifies this time as a test of patience, sanity and humility. When 2021 advances amid great uncertainty, the poet and essayist recapitulates past life and takes advantage of being, like St Augustine, a millimeter closer in the search for transcendence. […]
One event that marked the recent celebrations in the Archdiocese of Havana was the priestly ordination of two permanent deacons, an unusual fact in the history of the Cuban Church. After more than forty years of marriage, and the departure to the father’s house of his loving wives, the present priests Luis Entrialgo Pintado and Maximus Jenes Isasi asked to serve God and the Cuban people through the priesthood in the last years of their lives. […]
During a private ceremony held in Havana Cathedral, five new diocesan priests and a transient deacon were ordained by the laying on of hands and consecratory prayer by Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, Archbishop of Havana. […]
Among the Church’s most outstanding communicative experiences in Cuba is a project born as a virtual community that in 2020 was extended to other platforms and formats. Since its inception, the Catholic Youth Network (RCJ) has explored the world of social media and the media in order to connect as many young Cuban Catholics as possible. […]
In his allocution this Sunday, January 24, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, invites us to follow Jesus, as did Andrew, Peter, Santiago and Juan. In this way, we will be fishermen of people “for the greater glory of God and happiness of them, their families, their friends, their neighbors, their peoples”. […]
Pope Francis has instituted this third Sunday of Ordinary Time as the Sunday of the Word of God. From this virtual pulpit, which we have called “Today’s Word”, we intend to put our grain of sand to fulfill this desire of the Pope: that the Word of God will come to us as the food of the spirit from which we cannot do without. Nor could those disciples who left everything and marched after Jesus could not do without him. Leaving everything means losing everything to win it all. Men and women of all times and places, also today, follow Christ with what they are and have, it is worth it. If others did, how can we not be able to do it ourselves in our time. To this end Christ Himself will give us his grace and the strength of his Spirit. […]
Respectable and noble peoples rise only on the basis of virtues, assures us Teresa Díaz Canals, for whom the number one task in the face of the physical and moral deterioration of the nation, “without building, is to build”. Building, he tells us, is making history. It is a double building: architectural and historical. “And in that reparation of our society that eliminates the deep confrontation between ‘official’ Cubans and ‘mercenaries’ we must find the need that goes beyond any building as a sturdy coat, inner wealth is required. A loss of interior space has a paralyzing effect of subjecting to the immediate.” […]
“That the swings of international trade will give us a damn in the future will depend on the cumin not having to look for it in China and make our land produce it, so that everyone, back from their work, can buy it at ease with the percentage of sweat invested, using only their Legitimately Conquered Currency.” About this and more, goes the analysis of Jorge Fernández Era in the most recent issue of #PalabraNueva, without leaving aside the intelligent and certain humor to which he has us accustomed. […]
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