CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield September 20, 2015
Meeting weve been waiting for has happened. Pope francis and fidel castro met shortly after the mass. The pope is said to have gone directly there. The family was in attendance. The meeting took about half an hour or so. Gifts were exchanged. A little insight, fidel castro supposedly asked for books in the past, so pope francis brought him books. Of course there has been a warm relationship between raul castro and the pope mainly because of the role the pope has had in trying to create a rapprochement between cuba and the United States, and in return the cuban authorities have allowed this pla...