Posts Tagged ‘St Pope John Paul II’

What relationship did Castro have with the church?

Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
Castro

The relationship Fidel Castro had with the Church has often often speculated about Pope Francis’s condolence message to Raul Castro expressed his “sentiments of grief”. He promised to pray for Fidel. Jesuit-educated, Fidel Castro followed a Marxist-Leninist ideology. Believing the Church was a state enemy, he declared Cuba an atheist state. He seized all Cuba’s Read more

Mafia-Catholic Church changing relationship

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

The Mafia-Catholic Church relationship is not static, but has changed over the past 30 years says Rossella Merlino. She says the Church is very far from the brotherhood these days. This hurts the members she says as they have what she calls a “complex and varied” relationship with the Church. They rely on the Church Read more