From the Canção Nova newsroom with Vatican Radio
From September 19 to 27 the Pope Francis will again visit America. This time he will go to Cuba and USA. There is an important thread that connects his Apostolic Journey: “It is performing surprisingly, what John Paul II said, the world should open to Cuba and Cuba tothe world.”
This was underlined by the Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (CAL), Gusman Carriquiry, in an interview. He adds: “Today, we are very grateful for the prophetic words of Pope Wojtyla, which offers good prospects for the next apostolic journey of Francis, who will travel the same path of his predecessors, in a historic, favorable and interpellate situation.”
He adds saying that everyone is waiting for this trip with a particular intention, “for the restoration of bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States implies the possibility of relaunching in new conditions, respectful and positive actions of solidarity between the United States and all the countries of Latin America. “
However, before any political and diplomatic relations, notes Guzmán Carriquiry, Pope Francis will hold his trip in a pastoral point of view, under the sign of solidarity with the Cuban people, valuing everything that the Church did and lived through decades of difficulties confirming and encouraging her faith in her evangelizing mission.