The expulsion, according to various sources, is particularly related to what the Jesuit wrote every week in “Vida Cristiana,” a Sunday pamphlet that was distributed in all Cuban Catholic churches.
Newsroom (1145/09/2022 8:30 PM Gaudium Press) The fashion of religious expulsions by communist tyrants seems to be back.
After the expulsion of the Nuncio Sommertag in Nicaragua and the merciless dismissal of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries working in that Central American country, now it is the turn of Father David Pantaleon, superior of the Jesuits in Cuba. The priest might have believed he had carte blanche, as in any free country, to point out the gross flaws of the regime. But no.
The expulsion, according to various sources, is particularly related to what the Jesuit wrote every week in “Vida Cristiana,” a Sunday pamphlet that was distributed in all Cuban Catholic churches, and which is widely circulated.
The priest, a native of the Dominican Republic, returned to his homeland today.
Infocatólica reports that before he left, a farewell Mass was celebrated, presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop of Havana, Archbishop Juan de la Caridad García.
“Fr. David’s expulsion is not so much against the Society of Jesus as against a sector of the Cuban Church critical of the government, which reacted to the influence of the Jesuits gathered around him who, by formation and coherence, made themselves felt in the ecclesial sphere,” local sources point out.
But it is an old issue.
In April, the regime had already “half expelled” him, when they did not renew his residence permit. In May and June, they gave him a tourist visa, while he transferred functions and finally resigned. Two years ago, the Office of Religious Affairs of the Communist Party of Cuba notified the priest – taking advantage of the renewal of his residence visa – that it did not agree with the actions and pronouncements made by him, and other Jesuits and lay people working in the Society of Jesus in Cuba.
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