Why Did Pope Francis Appease The Castro Brothers?

Washington Post editorial: Pope Francis appeases the Castros in repressive Cuba

IN HIS visit to the United States beginning Tuesday, Pope Francis will meet not just President Obama and Congress but also those marginalized by our society: homeless people, immigrants, refugees and even the inmates of a jail. He’s expected to raise topics that many Americans will find challenging, such as his harsh critique of capitalism. His supporters say it’s all part of the role the pope has embraced as an advocate for the powerless, one that has earned him admiration from both Catholics and some outside the church.

How, then, to explain Pope Francis’s behavior in Cuba? The pope is spending four days in a country whose Communist dictatorship has remained unrelenting in its repression of free speech, political dissent and other human rights despite a warming of relations with the Vatican and the United States. Yet by the end of his third day, the pope had said or done absolutely nothing that might discomfit his official hosts.

WNU Editor: He will meet American prisoners but not Cuban political prisoners?!?!?! At moments like this .... I miss John Paul II .... because you know he would never do that. In fact .... what makes John Paul II unique in eastern Europe is that he always stood his ground when it came to confronting Communist dictatorships .... Cuba included. Sighhh .... I guess I live in different times.