Posted on 12/18/2014 6:48:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Vatican played a significant role in healing relations between arch foes Cuba and the United States, officials said Wednesday.
Pope Francis was personally involved in secret negotiations between the longtime enemies, sources said Wednesday, as the historic announcement was made in Washington D.C. The pontiff sent private letters to President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro over the summer, urging them to turn their swords into ploughshares.
The Pope expressed "warm congratulations for the historic decision" to resume relations, the Vatican said in a statement Wednesday.
The Vatican and an undisclosed Canadian location served as top-secret areas for negotiations between Cuban and American officials.
Florida Sen. Mark Rubio, a Cuban-American and a Catholic, called out the Pope for mixing in politics, but praised his help in gainting freedom for an imprisoned American. Rubio also criticized Obama for reaching an agreement with Castro, saying the President was trying to "appease rogue regimes at all costs."
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Both John Adams and Lincoln warned about the Jesuits. Today we have people throughout government and media connected to Jesuitry.
Stop propping them up and they will topple. obamaumao threw them the lifeline. funny the Swiss wont close the Banco de Cuba where the blood money is located, but they will turn in US people with their money there.
Unfortunately, his theology is as flawed as his political views.
Votes. It’s ALL about new dem votes..............They can’t win with the ones her, so they have to import them..............
This pope has put the church on the same road to perdition taken by mainline protestant denominations. One cannot be in league with satan and remain a disciple of Christ.
I don’t think the Pope should be involved in Politics....remember here in AMERICA we have ‘separation of church and state’ course Zero doesn’t realize that and doesn’t care...
I see a lot of things happening here everyday, Virginia State wants to limit guns, or do away with them entirely, Zero is opening our borders for anything and everyone, Zero bows to every Commie in the World, he butts his nose in everything that he shouldn’t, he isn’t helping America recover from the trillions he has spent, he lied to us about health care, well he’s lied about everything that comes out of his mouth, and now he is involved in a country (Cuba) were he didn’t need to be, but is against Israel, what I see is he is going to take over America as a dictator and have things lined up to do it in 2016...what are we going to do? What we have been doing, sit back and let him do it...so when this happens, were are we going to be?
Why is the Pope dealing in politics? He is an fool for even suggesting that hard core communists empires, like Cuba, should ever be included in civilized societies. He is off his rocker.
Ah, but a Jesuit thinks he can. After all they masterminded so many evil “successes” in history. Deo Vindice.
Pope Francis had no problem playing Ben Dover with Obama
Your post says it all! What a contrast.
Fellow travelers is the term you are looking for. Francis is the anti-JPII.
He may as well be Peter the Roman. (see the prophecies of St. Malachy)
The Pope is doing what a Pope is expected to do. He sees the thaw of relations as helping millions of potential Catholics. I can’t put the blame on him.
But I do, however, blame Obama since he wouldn’t have any use for the Pope other than to lay the blame at his feet.
This is what you get when communists conspire together for their own common good, yet they and their supporters will deny what they do is socialist communism.
Che was also from Argentina, just sayin’.
Why would I invest in a country that stole billions of dollars of assets and has never paid back a red cent?
That can be worked out.
Try and look at the big picture. If we succeed in Cuba and show what capitalism can do maybe the rest of South America will wake up and catch on.
By the way Cuba for a long time even before Castro arrived was a absolute Den of Iniquity so if we can transform it why not try?
The tourism aspect is the key thing and American know how will make it work.
You think Obama is going to pursue it?
And helping other Christians as well - not just Catholics.
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