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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
However, he warned of the limits of the Church’s intervention into politics,
saying: “The Church is not a political power, nor a political party. It
is a moral reality.”
Bruno Rodriguez, Cuba’s foreign minister, declined to make an issue of the
Pope’s comments, saying: “We consider the exchange of ideas to be useful.
Our people have deep convictions developed over the course of our history.
Cuba will listen with all respect to his holiness.”
While the Pope’s presence poses some risks for the Cuban government, Havana
believes the trip will also refocus attention on the US
trade embargo of the island, which the Catholic Church has long opposed.
The official purpose of the visit is to offer pastoral support to Cuba’s
Catholics, who have been allowed incremental new freedoms since the
government abandoned its policy of state atheism in the the early 1990s.
Around half of Cuba’s 11 million people describe themselves as Catholic but
less than five per cent attend church.
Pope John Paul II made a historic trip to the island in 1998 which helped ease
tensions between church and state and revitalise the depleted infrastructure
of the island’s Catholic organisations.
The six-day visit to the Americas will also test the vigour of the
increasingly frail Benedict. The 84-year-old was seen using a cane as he
arrived at the airport in Rome but climbed the steps of his aircraft
unaided. He cancelled his weekly public audience on Wednesday to rest and
gather strength for the visit, aides said.
The Vatican
said the Pope would be “available” if the ailing Fidel Castro, 85,
wants to see him but no there is no meeting between the two scheduled.
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