Pope Francis to Stop in Cuba Before US Trip

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Pope Francis to Stop in Cuba Before US Trip

Apr 22, 2015, 9:13 AM ET
By ANDREW SPRINGER

The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis will stop in Cuba before his visit to the United States this September.

The Holy See said earlier this month that a stopover was being considered. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi officially confirmed the stopover today but gave no further details.

Pope Francis is said to have helped speed up reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba by encouraging leaders of both nations and hosting some of the final negotiations.

Some Vatican watchers have already questioned why the pope would chose to visit the United States and Cuba before Mexico, which has the second-largest Catholic population in the world.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Remember when Pope John went to Cuba, and so many Cuban "exiles" beat a path there

in order to "see the Pope" and have a good gander at their former homeland, when the "news" broke on President Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, and all the press dropped everything in Cuba and took the very next flight out back to the US to get busy trying to wreck the President's life with this scandal which was just like the ones several of the leading Congressional Republicans were currently having at that very same time, people like Rep. Livingston, and Newt Gingrich, the clown from Las Vegas who was buggering his aide's wife, and Louisiana's Senator David Vitter's affair with a local whorehouse in New Orleans, where he went to unwind, put on his diaper and let the good times roll, etc.

That left only Pope John, the people of Cuba, and the Miami "exiles." No one was left there covering the story for prepackaged US consumption any time after the "scandal" broke.

It should be interesting seeing if anyone even sends reporters this time to whip up some of their "for US consumption" yarns.