CUBA's Cardinal Jaime Ortega must resign

June 5, 2013

CUBA's Cardinal Jaime Ortega must resign
"Houston, we have a Communist"
By Marielena Montesino de Stuart

Is Cardinal Jaime Ortega emboldened by Francis' rise to power?

Why has Cardinal Ortega embarked on a brazen socialist propaganda scheme
through the Archdiocese of Havana?

Fifty four years of lies

For more than 54 years the Cuban people have been subjected to lies from
the Vatican's modernist hierarchy – which has maintained an Ostpolitik
approach to Communism.

I have written and spoken about this extensively, as in The Beijing
Affair (Part Three) published last month – where I addressed the
Vatican's refusal to condemn Communism, as part of the "rules of
conduct" set forth during the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (Vatican
II).

The Cuban people, inside the island prison, as well as the exiled
community, have suffered not just under Castro's bloody Communist regime
– but also due to the betrayal of Catholic prelates who travel the globe
– repeating their one-liners and empty rhetoric, at symposiums and
conferences – based on their on-going dialogue with the enemy.

Meanwhile, the people of Cuba continue to experience unspeakable
persecution and suffering at the hands of their Communist captors.

Houston, we have a Communist

Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega has never fooled anyone – except those who
choose to ride the coattails of modernist Cardinals.

Ortega is a perfect example of the hypocritical game played by modernist
Vatican officials – in the ongoing dialogue and rapprochement with the
Communists, which has often been duplicitous towards dissidents,
prisoners and Cubans in exile.


Ortega has shown his true colors again, through the Archdiocese of
Havana's lay apostolate publication, Espacio Laical, which has published
a series of wordy, ignorant, convoluted and embarrassing apologies for
the Communist regime through its Editorial No. 230 (May 2013) –
essentially claiming that there is potential for change in Cuba, within
a progressive (socialist) framework.

In the editorial diatribe of EspacioLaical one can find every excuse for
rejecting freedom, including the condemnation of "certain individuals"
who insist on asking "important centers of power" to "destabilize the
government of Cuba" – which could in turn be "fundamentally detrimental
to the people of the Island."

To add insult to injury, the editorial refers to Cuba's oppressive
Communist measures as "inflexibilities":

"Realmente pueden existir fundamentos que justifiquen ciertas
inflexibilidades..."

TRANSLATION: "Actually, there can be grounds that could justify certain
inflexibilities..."

Espacio Laical continues by advising the Castro regime on an improved
governing model that would not expand these "inflexibilities" – in order
to keep Cuba from falling into "the abyss."

What?

Cardinal Ortega, you are insulting the intelligence of human beings
across the globe. Frankly, this editorial can only be described as
heartless.

People in Cuba are starving – and are persecuted, imprisoned, tortured
and executed, when they express their opposition to the Communist
regime. Are these some of the "inflexibilities" that the Archdiocese of
Havana deems justifiable?

But it appears that Cardinal Ortega and his propaganda writers at the
Archdiocese of Havana do not want to "destabilize" this Communist state
of terror.

Keep Cuba from falling into "the abyss"?

Cardinal Ortega, Cuba IS "the abyss."

A Communist abyss of abortion, hunger, political imprisonment, torture,
executions, sexual tourism, human trafficking – and every barbaric
behavior known to man.

The editorial also rejects the post-Soviet Eastern European economic and
political milieux, "which the immense majority of Cubans do not want."

What?

Is Cardinal Ortega conducting scientific polls in the streets of Havana
to see what form of government the Cuban people want? Has Ortega
forgotten that Cuba is ruled by a brutal Communist dictatorship?

What a pack of lies!

When it comes to the "immense majority" – I would like to remind
Cardinal Ortega that the opinion of the Cuban diaspora is essential.

Those of us who were born and raised in Cuba and suffered horrific
persecution under Castro's Communist regime, have the right to be
included in the decision-making process of Cuba's future, regardless of
the fact that we do not live in the Island. The Cuban diaspora also
includes the opinion and participation of those of us who are faithful
Roman Catholics. Surely, Cardinal Ortega would not want to exclude us!

Anywhere... as long as it is not in Cuba

Short of moving to North Korea – most people in Cuba, including the
government's collaborators, would live anywhere, as long as it is not in
Cuba. This is why for more than 54 years, hundreds of thousands of
Cubans have chosen to risk their lives to escape the Island. Untold
thousands have drowned in the Straits of Florida, or have been killed
while they desperately fled, trying to seek freedom.

The propaganda editorial published by the Archdiocese of Havana is one
of the most depressing pieces I have read in a long time, in light of
the reality faced by the Cuban people for more than 54 years. The ideas
presented reflect minds that were sucked into a dark Communist vortex
long ago – incapable of understanding what true freedom is all about.

Tragically, America is being incrementally sucked into this dark vortex
– and future generations eventually will not be able to appreciate the
precious gem that freedom is – because they will have lost it.

Ironically, Cardinal Jaime Ortega could learn a lesson from the
dedicated Marxists he has hired to write these pieces for the
Archdiocese of Havana, since they at least are consistent, by not
invoking or using Christianity or the Virgin Mary in their propaganda.

Let's see if Cardinal Ortega can be as consistent in his homilies.

Parting thoughts for Cardinal Jaime Ortega...

Cardinal Jaime Ortega, are you emboldened by Francis' rise to power, as
you embark on such a brazen socialist propaganda scheme, through the
Archdiocese of Havana?

Why don't you consider the people of Cuba worthy of true freedom?

What an insult to your own people and to humanity!

The statements that have been published in the Archdiocese of Havana's
EspacioLaical editorial No. 230 (May 2013) are a clear indication that
you have failed to protect and lead your flock in Cuba.

You ignore the fact, Cardinal Ortega, that the basis for all public
policies should not rest on ambiguous catch phrases or more socialist
schemes – but rather on the Commandments of God and on the Natural Law,
which binds all men, for all times and in all circumstances.

The Cuban people deserve no less than this.

As such, I thank God through The Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, all
the martyrs and saints and His entire Heavenly Court – that I live in
the United States of America, the country that gave me freedom – and
that I am not trapped back in Cuba watching you "dialogue" with my
former Communist captors.

Cardinal Ortega, don't wait for Francis' de rigueur reply – as part of
your 75-year old retirement petition to the Holy See.

Please resign now – lest you wish to spend the rest of your life as a
Cardinal retired in shame. Someone has to say the truth... ♔

© Marielena Montesino de Stuart"

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