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With a foreword by Walker Percy. When Fidel Castro opened the Cuban port at Mariel on April 23, 1980, two Episcopal parish priests in New Orleans found themselves thrust into the unlikely role of rescuers.Risking arrest and their personal safety, Father Joe Morris Doss and father Leo Frade defied both Cuban and American governments to deliver over four hundred émirgrés to freedom.A moving memoir with the suspense and intrigue of a political thriller, Let the Bastards Go recounts how two seemingly ordinary men-bolstered by their faith-led an extraordinary mission.

Hispanic parishioners at Grace Episcopal Church in New Orleans told Doss and Frade of their friends' and relatives' dire situation in Cuba and pleaded for assistance.Doss describes how he and Frade purchased an old World War II submarine chaser they renamed God's Mercy, engaged in delicate diplomacy at the highest level of Cuban authority, and ultimately ran an American Coast Guard blockade to reach Mariel.Throughout his riveting narrative, Doss intersperses compelling portraits of many of the participants and pilgrims, revealing the human faces behind the historic expedition.

Doss originally wrote Let the Bastards Go-the title echoes a Cuban anti-émigré slogan -1984, and Walker Percy provided a foreword.He decided against publishing it then, however, fearing that the wounds within the Cuban American community were too fresh.Nearly twenty years later, both Doss and Frade-now Bishop of Miami-agree that enough time has passed.The inspiring story God's Mercy can, and should, finally be told. ... Read more

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Courageous endeavour
This book was long-awaited, and I am glad it finally came out. Joe Morris Doss wrote an excellent account of how he and his associate Leo Frade planned and then carried out the mission of boatlifting Cuban refugees out of Cuba aboard the GOD'S MERCY. As one who grew up with refugees, I was naturally very interested in reading this book, having been close to Doss and Frade as they carried out this mission, and then paid a heavy price when the law tried to make a case against them. I am very proud to this day of having been associated with these two men. It should be noted that all of these refugees now live productive lives here in the United States, and that not all of the "Marielitos" became derelict upon entering the United States, even though Fidel Castro emptied his jails as he opened the port of Mariel. The story of this book is one of courage and compassion, and should be read everywhere.

firemc2 no signifigant facts
the false review of the boy from St. Petersburg is a bias opinion of a person who lacks the cultural and political education to compliment his account of biblical blindness.his lackluster review of "an island that sat so close to freedom" is simply a flaw in the nature of history. the "firemc2" devotes him/herself by wasting time contradicting the governments of cuba and the united states. this person is a dishonorable agent of history and verifies his or her actions through injustices of invention paralleled by political interpretations.by reading this book, i have found a prolific,false analization of modern cuba.cl.mac.

What was then is now still true.
Every once in a while one of us is called to do something for others that at first only seems to be a short, personal sacrifice.

Two priests, seeing the need in the eyes of others overcame the barriers of money, boats, and party politics to travel to an island that for 20 years sat so close to freedom, yet so far away from the life they knew.

Their time in Cuba exposed them to a bureaucracy layered in both power and ineptness that they also overcame by their spiritial strengh. Upon returning their spiritial strengh was once again tested by our own goverment- a bureaucracy that in so many ways paralleled what they had left behind in Havana.

In these times of turmoil over US politics and the aging Fidel, this book will help you to understand so much from those who gave of themselves first. ... Read more

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Although Judaism and Catholicism have important differences, both religions contain elements of religious mystery, aspects of belief that transcend the rational. This book studies how Jewish and Catholic practices of giving structure to religious mystery are embodied in the works of Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, Cynthia Ozick, and Flannery O'Connor. The volume links Malamud with Percy and Ozick with O'Connor because these authors depict religious mystery in similar ways. Percy and Malamud use the quest form to give shape to mystery, while O'Connor and Ozick use the grotesque and fantastic to evoke the numinous. Whether presenting a movement toward mystery or serving to evoke it, these four authors explore an ineffable dimension that readers need to sense in order to gain a better understanding of their works. ... Read more