But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don't feel offended."
Caring about the poor doesn’t make me a Communist
‘Tyranny of Capitalism’, the wealth made from financial speculation is intolerable and speculation on commodities was a scandal that compromised the poor’s access to food. - Bergoglio
Cuba today is the only
remaining Marxist-Leninist state to receive a "very high" human
development ranking from the United Nations, and ranks well in measures of
health and education.
Pope Francis will visit
Cuba in September after a scheduled visit to the U.S, the Vatican confirmed Wednesday.
(TeleSur.net) Pope Francis will visit Cuba on his way to the United States in
September, Vatican Spokesperson Father Federico Lombardi confirmed Wednesday.
"I can confirm that the pope has accepted the invitation received"
from Cuba, Lombardi said. Following his
visit to Cuba, Pope Francis is scheduled to visit three U.S. cities in the last
week of September. He will address Congress and meet with President Barack
Obama at the White House, address the U.N. in New York, and attend a church
rally for families in Philadelphia. The recent announcement comes three months after
Pope Francis played a key role in restarting diplomatic relations between the
United States and Cuba. Pope Francis
will become the third pope to visit the island nation after the historic 1998
visit of St. John Paul II. Pope Francis
also confirmed Thursday that he will embark on a tour of several Latin American
countries in July. He will visit Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay. It will be only the second time that a Pope
has toured Latin America; the first was when Jean Paul the Second visited the
region in 1985. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, Pope
Francis, the leader of the world’s nearly 1.1 billion Catholics, enjoys broad
support across much of the world. Sixty percent of those surveyed across 43
nations have a favorable view of the pontiff.
Latin America — the pope’s home region — also gives him high marks, with
72 percent saying they have a positive opinion.
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