Sunday, December 21, 2014

‘I am a Catholic Without a Pope’: Cuban-Americans Devastated by Pope Francis’ Role in Negotiations With Castro

Via Joe "I have felt this way for a while. The pope is as radical as Barack Obama."

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, anti-Castro protesters and former Cuban political prisoners Efrain Rivas, left, and Arturo Suarez, right, talk to a reporter in the Little Havana area of Miami. Rivas and Suarez expressed their disagreement on Wednesday's announcement that the U.S. and Cuba will begin taking steps to restore full diplomatic relations, marking the most significant shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island in more than half a century. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

The key role Pope Francis played encouraging talks between Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro left fractures among his flock in South Florida, where many older Roman Catholics equate the Castro brothers with the devil.

Many Catholics worldwide have expressed pride in seeing Francis stirring hopes of progress in communist Cuba, but some Cuban-Americans say their spiritual leader betrayed them.

“I’m still Catholic till the day I die,” said Efrain Rivas, a 53-year-old maintenance man in Miami who was a political prisoner in Cuba for 16 years. “But I am a Catholic without a pope.”

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4 comments:

  1. It was mentioned this pope would step down soon but it's not soon enough for me.
    He has a lot of excess baggage one of them being defender of pedophiles.
    And, communist views on matters. He sticks his nose in politics when his
    function is to lead & preach Godliness. The Vatican is being desecrated by this
    imposter.

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    1. The world's doomed with people like him and Obama.

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  2. Two Leninists: 0bama and Pope Fwancis

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    1. We must have done something really bad to deserve them. :)

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