Fidel Castro will be received back into the communion of the Roman
Catholic Church during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the island in March,
the Italian press is reporting. If true, this is a remarkable story —
and one that has yet to catch the attention of editors this side of the
Atlantic.
On 1 Feb 2012, La Republicca — [Italy’s second largest circulation daily newspaper, La Republicca
follows a center-left political line and is strongly anti-clerical; not
anti-Catholic per se but a critic of the institutional church] —
reported that as death approaches, the octogenarian communist has turned
to God for solace.
ABC’s Global Note news blog is the only U.S. general interest publication I have found that has reported this story. It referenced the La Republicca story and said that Castro’s
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God Loves Communists, as St. Theresa said. Atheism is dead.
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