Pope to Meet Fidel Castro for Havana Mass on Final Day of Cuba Trip

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Pope Benedict XVI was to meet Fidel Castro and hold a huge outdoor mass in Havana on Wednesday on the final day of his visit to Cuba.

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That’s got to be an interesting conversation!

Um. . . . AWKWARD. . .
 
well, fidel is getting up in years. maybe he is rethinking a lot of what he has done in his life. i do see it as positive that he does want to meet with the Pope. i don’t know who is older, the Pope or fidel, but i would think that being in the presence of the Pope and meeting with him, might be a good thing. does anyone know if he met with Pope JPII when he was in Cuba? would fidel be ready to admit that communism was a failure in cuba and that he was wrong? i am glad to see that so many have attended the Mass in Cuba. i pray that the Catholic faith will continue to grow there.
 
People often are caught between selfishness, an insatiable lust for power and personal gain, and their internal struggle of knowing what is right and just.

Perhaps as he’s coming towards the close, Fidel is struggling with this.

I believe that Cuba, along with her people and leaders, need our prayers.
 
ZoeyBdo said:
People often are caught between selfishness, an insatiable lust for power and personal gain, and their internal struggle of knowing what is right and just.
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Are you speaking of Cuba or about Republican and Democratic politicians in our country??
 
In almost every online news article I have the masochistic habit of reading through the comments from the peanut gallery. Holy Smokes… such hatred expressed for such a beautiful moment in time. I wonder if the loud minority really believe they’ll eradicate religion in their lifetime?

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7_Sorrows said:
**well, fidel is getting up in years. maybe he is rethinking a lot of **what he has done in his life. i do see it as positive that he does want to meet with the Pope. i don’t know who is older, the Pope or fidel, but i would think that being in the presence of the Pope and meeting with him, might be a good thing. does anyone know if he met with Pope JPII when he was in Cuba?
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Yep: wisdom can come with old age. i wonder whether some of those dictators get sick of the sound of their own voices when they spew out all of that rhetoric, a lot (or most? or all?) of which they probably don`t believe anyway. 🤷

According to the article, Fidels 85, and he met with Pope John Paul II. :thumbsup: : We should wish old Fidel well. The dictator he overthrew (Batista) was most certainly not a saint, so we shouldnt be too hard on him. In different ways, the USA supported Batista, so…it takes two to make a fight. The Bay of Pigs fiasco didn`t help. 🤷

The Pope criticised Communism…and the US embargo: why not lift it, and forgive and forget on both sides? Like it or not, they`re neighbours.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Are you speaking of Cuba or about Republican and Democratic politicians in our country??
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7 Sorrows is talking about people. That is why the first word in the sentence is “people”.

😃

And seriously, are you honestly comparing anyone in our politics to Castro? He’s killed more people than Mussolini and Franco combined.
 
empacae said:
In almost every online news article I have the masochistic habit of reading through the comments from the peanut gallery. Holy Smokes… such hatred expressed for such a beautiful moment in time. I wonder if the loud minority really believe they’ll eradicate religion in their lifetime?

emp
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I just avoid the comments section myself; I don’t need any early case of hypertension. Someone should kindly remind the peanut gallery that Christians have been made living torches, fed to the lions,bombed, crucified, and every other sort of horror imaginable. Compared to any item on that list all the nastily worded comments in the world don’t compare.

Sticks and stones may break my bones…
 
Fiasco said:
Yep: wisdom can come with old age. i wonder whether some of those dictators get sick of the sound of their own voices when they spew out all of that rhetoric, a lot (or most? or all?) of which they probably don`t believe anyway. 🤷

According to the article, Fidels 85, and he met with Pope John Paul II. :thumbsup: : We should wish old Fidel well. The dictator he overthrew (Batista) was most certainly not a saint, so we shouldnt be too hard on him. In different ways, the USA supported Batista, so…it takes two to make a fight. The Bay of Pigs fiasco didn`t help. 🤷

The Pope criticised Communism…and the US embargo: why not lift it, and forgive and forget on both sides? Like it or not, they`re neighbours.
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thanks for the answer on Pope JPII and Fidel having met. after meeting with 2 Popes, let’s hope that the Holy Spirit works through Fidel and he softens and a new day will soon emerge in Cuba and a new day for the Catholic church in Cuba!!🙂
 
7_Sorrows said:
thanks for the answer on Pope JPII and Fidel having met. after meeting with 2 Popes, let’s hope that the Holy Spirit works through Fidel and he softens and a new day will soon emerge in Cuba and a new day for the Catholic church in Cuba!!🙂
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And thanks for YOUR response. 🙂
God works in mysterious ways, and we know that He allows evil only when He can bring a greater good out of it. 👍
Because of oppression, the Faith of Cuban Catholics would be stronger than the Fath of the average Catholic in the materialistic, hedonistic West. So, that`s a plus.
 
Fiasco said:
The Pope criticised Communism…and the US embargo: why not lift it, and forgive and forget on both sides? Like it or not, they`re neighbours.
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Because then our money would be used to prop up a regime significantly worse than China’s in everything except sheer scale. Castro is second only to North Korea’s various Kims as a despot.

Many people like to pretend that Kennedy resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis, but that is not the case. Khrushchev’s decision to remove his missiles was, according to records we learned about after the Soviet Union fell, completely independent of anything America did. No, see, Khrushchev was actually worried that Castro was too flat out crazy to be trusted with nuclear weapons.

(Apparently, several witnesses reported that Khrushchev was given to wondering aloud whether Che Guevara, the sadistic mass-murderer who ran Cuba’s police state in those days, could possibly be as insane as he seemed.)

Why not tell your kids it’s just fine to hang out with the crack-dealer on your block, and forgive and forget on both sides? Like it or not you’re neighbors.
 
MESSAGE OF THE CUBAN REGIME TO THE RESISTANCE: “AS SOON AS THE POPE LEAVES, WE ARE GOING TO GET RID OF ALL OF YOU.”
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coalitionofcubanamericanwomen.blogspot.com/2012/03/message-of-cuban-regime-to-resistance.html
The Information and Support Center denounces that communications with the island have been mostly cut and almost impossible to establish throughout this 27th of March. Members of the resistance’s cell phones have been disconnected, and upon dialing the number, an operator informs the caller that the number does not exist.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance calls attention to the extremely dangerous situation to his physical integrity faced by the Cuban citizen –whose identity remains unknown- who during the Pope’s Mass celebrated yesterday in Santiago de Cuba cried out that the Cuban people were not free, down with communism and that there was no freedom in Cuba, and was repeatedly beaten and violently removed from the site by state security agents, led by one that wore a pullover with the Red Cross emblem, as per visual images captured in video by the international news media.

nationalreview.com/corner/294685/helluva-text-message-jay-nordlinger

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