Pope meets Fidel Castro after warning against ideology

Monday, September 21, 2015

HAVANA -- Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro on Sunday after urging thousands of Cubans to serve each other and not an ideology -- delivering a subtle jab at the communist system during a Mass celebrated under the gaze of an image of Che Guevara in Havana's iconic Revolution Plaza.

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