Catholicism in Cuba is neither tragic nor dramatic, but endowed with sensuality and humor; it is also charged with an ironic distance and a healthy anticlericalism.
We never admitted that the lake was terrifying, that it was a dark, alluring, fearful hole in the world, more grim than serene. We never said the word “drown."
Pope Benedict XVI resigned over three years ago; Francis is undeniably the only pope.Yet in some ways the transition is ongoing and continues to affect the Church.