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Article: CUBANS TAKE TO POPE'S CALL FOR MORE OPENNESS.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- January 26, 1998
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Byline: Larry Rohter The New York Times
With the images of both Jesus and Che Guevara looking down on him and a visibly moved throng, Pope John Paul II on Sunday stepped into Fidel Castro's favorite pulpit, the huge Plaza of the Revolution here, and urged Cubans to seek ``the new paths called for by these times of renewal'' and to avoid ``exclusion, isolation and conflict.''
With Castro and other senior Cuban officials in the front row at a midmorning Mass, the pope delivered a ringing call for pluralism. He rejected the materialistic, one-party ideology of the Cuban state. And he said that true liberation ``cannot be reduced to its social and political ...