4. Resistance

To resist means that we will coun­sel Catholics to continue to struggle against Communist doctrine with all licit means, in the defense of each menaced country and Christian Civil­ization.

To resist means that we will never use the unworthy resources of contestation nor, even less, take attitudes inconsistent with the obedience and veneration owed to the Supreme Pontiff. To resist implies, however, that we will utter respectfully our judgment in circumstances like the interview of Archbishop Casaroli in regard to the "happiness" of Cuban Catholics.

In 1968, the Holy Father Paul VI was in Bogota, the prosperous capital of Colombia, for the 39th International Eucharistic Congress. One month later, preaching in Rome to the whole world, he affirmed that he had seen there a "great need for that social justice which would place immense classes of poor people (in Latin America) in more just, comfortable, and human conditions of life" (speech of September 28, 1968).

He said this about a Continent where the Church enjoys the greatest liberty.

In contrast, Archbishop Casaroli saw in Cuba nothing but happiness.

In the face of this, to resist is to state with a serene and respectful frankness that there is a dangerous contradiction between these two declarations, and that the struggle against the Communist doctrine shall continue.

This is an example of true resistance.