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...political decisions. As news of the first edict spread, Midwestern newspapers were peppered with questioning protests. In Denver widely respected Methodist Bishop Glenn R. Phillips announced that "on Nov. 8 I shall not mark my ballot for a Roman Catholic candidate for the presidency," added later that the Puerto Rican bishops' letter had doubly confirmed his stand...
Toward Futility. Nobody in the U.S. was more sensitive to the spreading Protestant worries than U.S. Catholic clergymen, some of whom have flatly stated their support for the constitutional separation of church and state (TIME, Oct. 10). Sharp criticism of the Puerto Rican bishops' pastoral letter came from an editorial in the Jesuit weekly America. "Such a prohibition," the magazine argued, "is unprecedented in American Catholic history. Catholics in the United States cannot but wonder about the na ture of a situation which would persuade church leaders to embark on a course of action so open to misinterpretation...
...Pope John XXIII asserted the right and even duty of the church to advise the faithful on how to vote in elections. In practice, the Vatican seems to prefer that this right be exercised with great restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions, and is considered by Rome and by the island's bishops a part of Latin America, where prelates are more active and less discreet in politics...
When the Kennedy camp got word of the Puerto Rican bishops' prohibition, they worriedly sought advice from Roman Catholic theologians. The advice: no Roman Catholic prelate in the continental U.S. is likely to issue an open contradiction, but few are likely to agree with the Puerto Rican action. Press Sec retary Pierre Salinger rushed out a statement on Kennedy's behalf: "Senator Kennedy considers it wholly improper and alien to our democratic system for churchmen of any faith to tell the members of their church for whom to vote or for whom not to vote." Thus, once more...
Billy Graham of Montreat, N.C. was making a special path to New York City's nearly 1,000,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, mostly Puerto Ricans. Of the 43,500 who went to listen to him, 1,139 made "decisions for Christ." New York, Puerto Rican population has been a surprisingly fertile field for Protestant proselytizing. Partly because of a shortage of priests in their homeland, as in all Latin America, many Puerto Ricans have had little or no instruction in the Roman Catholic faith to which they traditionally belong. Protestant churches have been quick to capitalize on this; they...