[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

MYOB, Francis. Everybody knows he just wants to help the commies down in Cuba.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

As individuals, catholics are some of my favorite people. BUT I DO NOT CARE FOR THIS POPE.

[Crazieman]

I say he was mistranslated again.

[livius]

That figures.

Don’t forget that BXVI withheld the announcement of the beatification of Fr Felix Varela (an 18th-19th century Cuban-born priest who spent his life working in the US and is in the process of canonization) until after he had concluded his papal visit to Cuba. He did this because he did not want to give the Castro regime anything to boast about or make it look as if he approved.

On the other hand, Pope Francis - who spent several hours with Obama’s representatives last week before coming out and announcing that Guantanamo should be closed - is obviously just ready to slobber all over Fidel.

[Alex Murphy]

Francis is being credited for helping bridge the divide by first sending letters to President Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba, and then having the Vatican host a diplomatic meeting between the two sides in October. “The Holy Father wishes to express his warm congratulations for the historic decision,” Francis said in a statement released Wednesday night by the Vatican. Vatican spokesmen declined to provide any details about Francis’s letters, other than that he encouraged the two sides to resolve “humanitarian questions”; resolve the release of political prisoners, including an American held by Cuba, Alan P. Gross; and “initiate a new phase in relations.”

Being credited by who, besides the Vatican Press Office?

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Doing the bidding of one of the largest mass murderers in the Western Hemisphere, I am a Catholic adult convert, but this is starting to look to me a lot like an Anti-Pope.

[Dr. Thorne]

Commissar Frank strikes a blow against the running dog lackeys of capitalism.

¡Viva la Revolución, Comrade!

[NotSoFreeStater]

I am Catholic and do not like this Pope.

[Ken522]

So they will take down the fence separating NAVSTA Guantanamo from Caimanera and Boquerón? Not so fast ...

[NTHockey]

Useful idiot, more like it.