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• US welcomes pope visit, defends Cuba embargo
• Hungarian kids go to mass as churches take over schools
• Analysis: Pope, Castros talked past each other
• Pope ends Cuba trip, calls for 'basic freedoms'
• Fidel Castro, excommunicated in 1962, meets with Pope Benedict
• There Is No Catholic Vote, Just Catholic Sensibilities

US welcomes pope visit, defends Cuba embargo Posted: The United States on Thursday welcomed Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba as a way to promote human rights but defended its half-century embargo against the island from the pontiff's criticism.

Hungarian kids go to mass as churches take over schools Posted: Financially strapped Hungarian towns are handing over the running of their schools to churches, which means that the constitutional guarantee of a religious-free education is no longer possible.

Analysis: Pope, Castros talked past each other Posted: The spiritual leader of the world's Roman Catholics and the brothers who have carried Cuba along an increasingly solitary Communist path mixed warm smiles with the hard language of their respective camps during Pope Benedict XVI's three-day tour of Cuba.

Pope ends Cuba trip, calls for 'basic freedoms' Posted: Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a visit to Cuba with a call for respect of "basic freedoms," pursuing his persistent prodding of the island's Communist authorities to embrace change.

Fidel Castro, excommunicated in 1962, meets with Pope Benedict Posted: When the late pope John Paul II met with Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1998, the church had high hopes it could help bring fast political change to the island, as his visit had to his native Poland.

There Is No Catholic Vote, Just Catholic Sensibilities Posted: Instead, they are swing voters

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