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near. Seek God while He can be found.
Our hope is in the only wise: God our
Savior, Glory, Majesty, Dominion and
Power, now and forever.
* Editor's Note: It cannot be construed
that the Cuban people Cuba is pagan.
The late Vicar General of the
Archdiocese of Havana, Monsignor
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1999: 90),
described the Cuban religious landscape
shaken by the waves of atheism and
anti-religiosity unleashed after the
triumph of the Castro revolution in
1959: "The conversion to Santería or

another syncretic religion was a way to
implement, consciously or not, the
religious feelings or some kind of
openness to a transcendental or at least
superhuman reality. Gradually, within
thirty years, the syncretistic