De l’opposition à l’intégration : les évolutions de l’Église et de la Révolution cubaines au prisme de la visite de Benoît xvi
The arrival of Benedict XVI to Cuba from March 26 to 28, 2012 represented a high point in the political life of the island. If this meeting does not have the same scope as that of John Paul II in 1998 and no critical statement marked the papal visit, it nonetheless reveals a major diplomatic event o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université des Antilles
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Études Caribéennes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/6146 |
| Summary: | The arrival of Benedict XVI to Cuba from March 26 to 28, 2012 represented a high point in the political life of the island. If this meeting does not have the same scope as that of John Paul II in 1998 and no critical statement marked the papal visit, it nonetheless reveals a major diplomatic event of historical developments in work within the Catholic Church and the Cuban society. The lack of critical political discourse of a pope to anti reputation which surprised Western journalists. They do not have any conclusion. Yet the silence of the Pope will show the Vatican to overcome the structural weaknesses of the Cuban Catholic Church inherited from the nineteenth century while the reception by the Cuban government makes manifest the will of the authorities to include believers in Cuban homeland whose they were long excluded. This article attempts to come back from a thorough field investigation on the implications of the speeches of the various actors in this game. |
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| ISSN: | 1779-0980 1961-859X |