Posted on 09/20/2015 11:18:15 AM PDT by ebb tide
Live coverage of South American communists.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The question of the day: is Castro convertible?
Pope Francis meets with former Cuban president Fidel Castro
Pope Francis met former Cuban president Fidel Castro after his mass in Havana and exchanged gifts, the Vatican has confirmed.
The meeting lasted for around 30-40 minutes, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters. The mood was was “initimate and familial”, Lombardi said. The two discussed the environment and “the situation of humanity today, the great problems”.
The pope gave Castro a copy of his environmental encyclical, Laudato Si, and books by Italian priest Alessandro Pronzato and Spanish Jesuit Segundo Llorente, who educated the former Cuban leader.
A book on humour and religion was also given to Castro, now 89. In return, he presented the pope with his own religious insights: a collection of interviews with Castro by the Brazilian priest Frei Betto.
Two old Guacamolean Marxists... so what?
Refused to meet with dissidents. He’s no John Paul.
Exactly. This so-called “pope” has the time to meet with Castro, but no time to meet with dissidents. Outrageous.
Pope Che meets Fidel.
“The pope gave Castro a copy of his environmental encyclical.”
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CASTRO: “Thank-you, you holiness. I was out of toilet paper. There are shortages here in the worker’s paradise. Now I have a fresh supply of something to wipe my a** with.”
“The meeting lasted for around 30-40 minutes, Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters. The mood was was “initimate and familial”, Lombardi said. The two discussed the environment and “the situation of humanity today, the great problems”.
Hmmm !
They discussed the great problems of humanity today in just 40 minutes.
They must be really deep thinkers.
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20m ago
15:15
Googling around to find out more about Fr Alessandro Pronzato, whose books the pope gave to Fidel Castro, I found this little gem from his book, Meditations on the Sand. I wonder what El Jefe would make of it:
These days there is a great deal of talk about the “rediscovery of one’s identity.” But they seem to be talking about an identity which is imposed on the individual by society. It is predetermined and unalterable. You have found your identity if if you “resemble” the model which has already been decided for you. The search for one’s identity then ends in slavery, not freedom. For you do not become what you are called to be, but what society wants you to be.
In the context of the search for identity, prayer is a subversive factor rather than a consolidating element ... People who pray are eccentric because they go outside the circles of brainwashing and conformism.
Who was the first to conquer space?
It’s incontrovertible
That the first to conquer living space
Is the Castro convertible!
It conquers space with fine design,
It saves you money all the time.
It’s tops in the convertible line.
Castro Convertible!
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