Show Birth and Death in Cuba You can be born without the assistance of a doctor in Cuba but it is necessary to have the aid of a priest to make your birth legitimate The law does not recognize re-cognize your existence unless your nativity nativ-ity is properly recorded in the records of the church Nor can you be married without the padre because civil and Protestant Pro-testant ceremonies are not accepted as legal in Cuba Much less can you be buried because all the ceremonies belong to the church and a heretic has to pay well to lay his bones in one of them The church is recognized in Cuba more completely com-pletely than in Rome and exercises jurisdiction juris-diction over the life there as well as that which is to comePittsburgh Dispatch |