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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CUBA, 1959-62: THE CLASH OF IDEOLOGIES
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The Catholic Church in Cuba faced unique challenges from 1959 through 1962 during the Cuban Revolution. This article examines the social and political roles of the Catholic Episcopal hierarchy and Catholic lay organisations during the Batista regime and the first months of the Cuban Revolution. The Church unsuccessfully attempted to compete with the revolutionary ideology through the use of religious and cultural symbolism, processions, mass meetings and pastoral circulars. The Cuban case served as a benchmark and a warning for the Catholic Church in other nations. The lesson of the Cuban Catholic Church's ambivalence and eventual fate under the Revolutionary regime was not lost on the Vatican hierarchy. What began as a call for an ecumenical council under Pope John XXIII, was transformed into a major shift of paradigms for the Catholic Church in the Second Vatican Council in the light of the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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