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Francis will visit Cuba from September 19-22, before arriving in the United States, making…
As Pope Francis prepares to make his first visit to Cuba this weekend, expectations among Cuban Catholics in Tampa are soaring.
A spokesman for Network, Joe Ward, said in an email message that the organization was unaware of any tension with the Vatican over the invitation to Sister Campbell. Francis will celebrate Mass in Havana’s main square, the Plaza of the Revolution, on Sunday morning and will visit priests, members of religious orders and seminarians at the Havana Cathedral that late afternoon. A meeting with Fidel Castro is likely at some point.
The Vatican is taking issue with several guests invited by President Obama to the pope’s welcome ceremony, including a transgender man, a gay pastor and a nun whose views on abortion buck church teaching.
Raul Castro – who like his brother and former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was baptized as a Catholic and educated by Jesuits – was expected to greet Francis at the airport. From there, it is wheels up to Washington.
To many, he has brought new ideas to the Catholic Church, ideas that have garnered much support, but also criticism.
You wouldn’t ordinarily think of Archbishop Thomas Wenski as a tour guide.
As always with Francis, this trip will be surprises, and they will likely turn out to be some of the most interesting moments. This is the third time a pope will visit Cuba in the past 15 years. How might he continue to address more politics of Latin and South America? And the White House is hoping to exploit the first pope in recent memory who embraces key parts of Obama’s progressive agenda.
“I’m looking forward very much to what he has to say to the bishops”, Bishop McManus said.
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U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuba’s President Raul Castro during a meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas at the ATLAPA Convention center on April 11, 2015 in Panama City.
