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Sunday, September 20, 2015
Pope meets Cuba’s Fidel Castro to talk big issues
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePope Francis and Fidel Castro have held a meeting at the revolutionary leader’s home shortly after the pope told tens of thousands of Cubans to focus their lives on service to others instead of ideology.
Papal spokesman Federico Lombardi says during the conversation that Fidel wanted to reflect on big issues and questions facing the world and humanity.
Francis’s recent encyclical on the environment and the global economic system was discussed. Lombardi says that unlike the 2012 visit of Benedict XVI, when Fidel peppered him with questions, the meeting with Francis was more of a conversation.
Lombardi says that out of respect for the family and the informality of the encounter, no photographs would be released.
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