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“In me what lives on is the parish priest, and if I had had doubts about my vocation to the diocesan clergy, I would not have had any left after being parish priest in Matanzas, but after being bishop I am even more convinced: there is nothing more important than being a parish priest.” Fragment of the interview with Cardinal Jaime Ortega published by Palabra Nueva in March 2015. Then, and as a tribute to him, we offer it entirely to readers.

I wrote these lines when, according to human forecasts, Cardinal Jaime Ortega was preparing for the definitive meeting with the Lord where he has already left. In those last few weeks, while the entire Catholic […]

Animal protection and the urgent need for a law regulating it is one of the issues that is most strongly and organizationally on the table of Cuban civil society. In his treatment, New Word dedicates this dossier.

Animal protection and the urgent need for a law regulating it is one of the issues that is most strongly and organizationally on the table of Cuban civil society. In his treatment, New Word dedicates this dossier.

Animal protection and the urgent need for a law regulating it is one of the issues that is most strongly and organizationally on the table of Cuban civil society. In his treatment, New Word dedicates this dossier.

Martí assumes glory or hell for himself and for his verse because they make up a whole, that which encompasses matter and spirit and resists leaving out anything that is part of the complex human existence.

The iron man, Gomez, doesn’t believe or want to believe Martí’s death. On the 20th he sent Ramón Garriga, the custodian of the Diaries, with a letter addressed to Colonel Ximénes de Sandoval, to find out if “he is killed or lives with serious injury, or whatever.” The colonel “understands” Gomez that, since he is a Freezer like Martí, he is being treated as a brother, not an enemy.