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Marian feast becomes a political football in Cuba
- Sep 10, 2020
The Church in Cuba is warning against politicizing religious festivals after events surrounding the Feast of Our Lady of El Cobre (Our Lady of Charity), the patroness of the island.
Cuban cardinal, dead at 83, was a truly remarkable churchman
- Jul 28, 2019
Cardinal Jaime Ortega of Cuba died Friday from pancreatic cancer at the age of 83.
Miami archbishop recalls Catholic persecution in Cuba, prays for peace
- Nov 29, 2016
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami recalls the persecution of Catholics in Cuba. “Fidel Castro is dead,” he wrote. “The death of this figure should lead us to invoke the patroness of Cuba, the Virgin of Charity, calling for peace for Cuba and its people.”
After Castro, priests pray for end to communism in Cuba, Venezuela
- Nov 28, 2016
At St. Brendan Catholic Church in a Miami suburb, there was no overt mention of Castro, but during the Prayers of the Faithful, one of the two priests prayed for “an end to communism, especially in Cuba and Venezuela.”
Pope Francis expresses ‘sorrow’ over Castro’s death
- Nov 26, 2016
Pope Francis reacted to the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a telegram, offering his condolences to the Castro family but avoiding words that could be perceived as direct praise of Castro’s Socialist regime.
How Fidel’s faith remained a mystery to the end
- Nov 26, 2016
The Jesuit-educated Fidel Castro rejected the Church of his childhood following the 1959 Cuban revolution, and for two decades never met a bishop. But then came a book-long interview with a Brazilian friar, and growing closeness between Church and state in Cuba — as well as tantalizing signs that Castro was seeking reconciliation with his Catholic faith.
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