Raul Castro meets Pope, says he might return to the Church
ShepherdsDog @ Sun May 10, 2015 10:29 am
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-s-rau ... -1.3068380
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Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunday thanked Pope Francis for brokering the thaw between Havana and Washington and said the Pope so impressed him that he might return to the Church, despite being a communist.
The 83-year-old younger brother of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel spoke with the pope for nearly an hour - unusually long for a papal meeting — during a visit the Vatican said was strictly private and not a state visit.
The 83-year-old younger brother of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel spoke with the pope for nearly an hour - unusually long for a papal meeting — during a visit the Vatican said was strictly private and not a state visit.
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Francis, who is due to visit both Cuba and the United States in September, is a member of the Jesuit religious order. Castro joked that "even I am a Jesuit in a certain sense" because he was educated by the Jesuits before the revolution.
We truly do live in interesting times.
Jabberwalker @ Sun May 10, 2015 10:48 am
Maybe, what needed to happen was some distance from the goddam Russians.
Knight1911 @ Sun May 10, 2015 11:36 am
great now the pope is going to dictate a country through their leader which will soon be just a figurehead.
ShepherdsDog @ Sun May 10, 2015 11:39 am
2Cdo @ Sun May 10, 2015 12:24 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
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Andyjr deserves a double.
Knight1911 @ Sun May 10, 2015 12:28 pm
Exact same concern people had with Kennedy, is it not?
ShepherdsDog @ Sun May 10, 2015 12:40 pm
2Cdo 2Cdo:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
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Andyjr deserves a double.
Just waiting to hear about the Freemason conspiracy next.
Knight1911 @ Sun May 10, 2015 12:44 pm
Conspiracy theorists are insane, and they all belong more in the right-wing camp, form what I've seen, than the left-wing camp.
Jabberwalker @ Sun May 10, 2015 3:18 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
2Cdo 2Cdo:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
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Andyjr deserves a double.
Just waiting to hear about the Freemason conspiracy next.
The Knights Templar are going to set up shop in Cuba, now so that they can guard and supervise the descendants of Jesus and Mary Madeleine.
ShepherdsDog @ Sun May 10, 2015 3:27 pm
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Mary Madeleine
any relation to Mary Magdalene, or was that the name she was given under the Jehovah's Witness Protection Plan??
raydan @ Sun May 10, 2015 3:46 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
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Mary Madeleine
any relation to Mary Magdalene, or was that the name she was given under the Jehovah's Witness Protection Plan??
That's the French spelling... but to be consistent, Mary would have to be Marie.
andyt @ Sun May 10, 2015 3:51 pm
I thought Madeleine was a kind of tart. Oh, wait....
Jabberwalker @ Sun May 10, 2015 3:57 pm
raydan raydan:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
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Mary Madeleine
any relation to Mary Magdalene, or was that the name she was given under the Jehovah's Witness Protection Plan??
That's the French spelling... but to be consistent, Mary would have to be Marie.
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