• Reflections on Pope Benedict’s Visit to Cuba

  

  Aug 27, 2012 5:41

  The miter leans slightly with the rhythm of the ritual, leaving his back exposed to the stone face of José Martí. On the...

   

• Andrés Carrión describes his anti-Castro shouts during papal visit in Cuba

  

  Apr 30, 2012 6:07

  Andrés Carrión, the man who shouted “Freedom!” “Down with communism!” and other anti-Castro slogans on March 26,...

   

• After pope’s trip, Catholic bishops seek end to Cuba embargo

  

  Apr 20, 2012 9:35

  Following Pope Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Cuba, U.S. Catholic bishops are pushing the State Department to lift the 50-year...

   

• More than 1,100 Cubans reported detained during papal visit

  

  Apr 18, 2012 4:39

  Cuban police carried out 1,158 political detentions in March – mostly to keep dissidents away from Pope Benedict XVI...

   

• A pope of ironies in Cuba and Mexico

  

  Apr 11, 2012 5:19

  Although Pope Benedict XVI’s March 23-28 outing to Mexico and Cuba officially constituted one voyage, in reality it was...

   

• On the pope’s trip to Cuba… What would Jesus have done?

  

  Apr 9, 2012 7:59

  It is a simple question that Catholics are taught to ask themselves as children: What would Jesus do? Perhaps no better metric...

   

• Oppenheimer: The pope and the Castros

  

  Apr 2, 2012 9:05

  Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Cuba will not produce much change, but everybody — the Pope, the Cuban military regime,...

   

• Shout of ‘Freedom!’ paid for with beating instead

  

  Apr 2, 2012 9:00

  He is the man who stood up amid the crowd before a papal Mass in Cuba and shouted “Freedom!” If his intention was to...

   

• Wenski, pilgrims return from Cuba after pope visit

  

  Mar 30, 2012 5:46

  Calling his trip to Cuba “a wonderful pilgrimage” and “a beautiful experience,” Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski predicted...

   

• Pope urges greater openings in vast Cuban Mass

  

  Mar 30, 2012 5:01

  Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba and preached against “fanaticism’’...