Comments for A Cuba Diary at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:24:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/a-cuba-diary.html#comment-10984 I think Pope Benedict requesting that Good Friday be proclaimed a national holiday is a shrewd move. On the surface it may seem, "oh, how nice, the Cubans can celebrate this holiday." Stone walls are broken down through the action of moisture and frost. Getting religious holidays recognised (Christmas, thanks to JPII, and now Good Friday) are like opening up crevises in the stone wall of Cuban communism. Now there's more space for the Church to draw attention to the Good News of Jesus Christ. A little yeast leavens the bread - a little water cracks open the stone. - Randall Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:12:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/a-cuba-diary.html#comment-10980 That's exciting that Good Friday is now a Cuban national holiday. I hope soon all the Cuban people are free to enjoy it! - Jacob Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:14:25 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/a-cuba-diary.html#comment-10978 Thank you for this essay. It's instructive to get a "people's" view of the Papal visit. Sadly, the comment that Cuban young people don't know much about Jesus Christ could probably be made about European young people and even American young people. In our post modern and pre-apocalytic world, the Pope's role has largely become a missionary one. - will manley Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:47:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/a-cuba-diary.html#comment-10977 " even if one of them helped bring down international Communism." As much as he may have tried, international communism was not brought down, though the Berlin Wall may have been. The very setting of your article, Cuba, is joined by China, Venezuela, Vietnam, North Korea, as Communist hold-outs, as well as Russia (which failed to have its Nuremberg, so the KGB weeds grew back), and an assorted number of countries as little commies-in-training. Including us, unfortunately. Watch the OWS Days of Rage come back much stronger this year, and remember they had their seeds in the 1960s from SDS/Weatherground. Whose leaders were coached by the KGB. In Cuba. So much for the death of International Communism. A measure of hope can be seen, however, by the reminder JPII gave us by his affiliation with Lech Walesa, as to what is the true meaning of "solidarity". Remeber Solidarnosc? It's not everyone gathering under the umbrella of state to support each other. Much the antithesis - it's the power of people gathering together to support each other and *oppose* the unjust power of the State. Long live Solidarnosc in its genuine meaning. - Sue Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:44:32 +0100