Catholic and international media are abuzz over Pope Francis’ trip to Cuba, the third consecutive pope to visit this island thoroughly destroyed by the two Castro brothers. The Castros have utterly ruined this onetime bastion of Roman Catholicism with a cruel, morally unconscionable Marxist-Leninist atheism. A dozen Hurricane Katrinas could not have generated the mass wreckage of lives and souls unleashed by these two disastrous sons of a rosary-reciting mother and Jesuit education. (Fidel later shut down his Jesuit high school, along with all other Catholic schools.) If your thing is social justice, then turn your eye to Cuba, an island where two mad siblings systematically robbed millions of poor citizens and their children and grandchildren of basic opportunity, rights, property, decency.
The media coverage of the upcoming visit has been shallow at best, an unwitting showcase of the rampant ignorance of communism we’ve tragically come to expect from consecutive generations of elites educated in our woeful universities. One widely circulated report, by Reuters, pointed fingers at the “deeply conservative” clergy who existed in Cuba in 1959, when Fidel took over. Apparently, these reactionaries made a confrontation with fun-loving Fidel “inevitable” once he and his merry rebels overthrew Fulgencio Batista. As a source for this assertion, the reporter quoted a “historian” at the University of Havana. “They were imbued with anti-communism from the Spanish civil war,” said this “historian” of these wayward clergy. “They sided with the United States and supporters of the old Batista regime and so the trouble began as a political, not religious, confrontation.”
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