Pope Francis met privately with former Cuban president Fidel Castro on Sunday, a meeting the Vatican described as "friendly and informal."
The meeting at Castro's Havana residence lasted about 30 minutes, said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi, with the Pope and the communist leader exchanging books about religion. About 10 members of Castro's family were present, according to the Vatican.
Castro, who is 89, rarely makes public appearances. He and Francis talked about the common problems of humanity, including environmental degradation, Lombardi said.
Castro's son, Alex, photographed the meeting.
Earlier on Sunday, the pope celebrated Mass before a crowd of thousands of Cubans, telling the communist country to "serve people, not ideas."
"There is a kind of service which truly serves," the Pope preached during his homily, "yet we need to be careful not to be tempted by another kind of service, a service which is self-serving."
"There is a way to go about serving which is interested in only helping 'my people,'" Francis continued, in remarks that some analysts interpreted as a criticism of Cuba's communist government. "This service always leaves 'your people' outside, and gives rise to a process of exclusion."
Long before dawn, crowds in the communist country began pouring in to see the Pope, who took to the stage across from Christ's likeness Sunday morning. Before celebrating Mass, he passed through the crowd in the popemobile greeting worshippers.
Three hours ahead of his arrival, the square was already packed with many thousands of people. The Cuban government was expecting 100,000 or more people to attend. The Red Cross set up stations to take care of medical needs that might arise from exhaustion.
Crowds cheered and waved flags as the Pope neared. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, archbishop of Boston, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, were seated near Pope Francis, along with Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana. Turkson was a key adviser on the Pope's encyclical on the environment. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Cuban President Raul Castro also attended the Mass.
Cubans waiting for the Pope in Havana's Revolution Square could not remember ever having seen a picture of Jesus Christ there. And this one had towering stature, with words under the picture reading, "Come to me."
The government has given the crowd a rare treat, opening up Wi-Fi signals. It has encouraged Cubans to send messages of welcome to the Pope.
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Later Sunday, Francis is to meet with government officials and follow that with meetings with local priests and seminarians.
When Francis landed in Cuba on Saturday, he quickly called on the communist nation to "open itself to the world," while praising its recent restoration of diplomatic ties with the United States.
Francis was greeted by Castro at Jose Marti International airport in Havana, where the Pope urged Cuba to grant its people the "freedom, the means and the space" to practice their faith -- an implicit criticism of the many restrictions the country places on religion.
The Catholic Church was once an integral part of Cuban history, the Pope said, inspiring veterans of its war for independence and "sustaining the hope which preserves people's dignity in the most difficult situations."
In his short speech, Francis also invoked Jose Marti, a Cuban hero, to deliver a veiled critique of the Castros, said Andrew Chesnut, a professor of Latin American history at Virginia Commonwealth University. Marti, a George Washington-type figure, died in 1895 during the war for independence.
"He specifically referenced Marti as a fighter against 'dynasties,' a reference of course to the five-decadelong Castro regime," Chesnut said.
But a Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the Pope was not necessarily referring to the Castros.
"I don't think that it was a citation chosen for a specific reference to today's situations," Lombardi said at a Saturday evening news conference.
Francis has criticized Cuba in the past, though. In a 1998 book that he edited, he wrote that Cuba's "authoritarian" and "corrupt" regime should be scrapped in favor of a representative Democracy. Francis is the third pope to visit Cuba, after St. John Paul II in 1998 and Benedict XVI in 2012. Francis' call for Cuba to "open itself" to the world echoed John Paul's remarks, a sign of the Catholic Church's longstanding efforts to carve out space in a country that has been officially atheist for decades.
Lombardi said the Pope believes religious freedom in Cuba means more than the ability to worship freely. It also entails the right to open schools and practice acts of charity, as well as other missions.
Castro, who has said the Pope has inspired him to consider joining the Catholic Church, effusively praised Francis on Saturday, particularly his criticism of consumerism and environmental degradation.

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This option was toyed with by Western leaders in 2013 when they debated punitive strikes against the Assad regime for the use of chemical weapons in Ghouta, but it would be pretty ugly now.
NATO airstrikes would probably cripple the Assad regime quickly. But what would happen to the people in government strongholds -- the capital, Damascus,and the Mediterranean coastal enclaves of Tartus and Latakia?
It's pretty likely Syrian opposition forces would sweep in to those big population centers, where there are many Alawi and Shia loyal to the regime. And those opposition forces have radicals -- including the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front -- in their ranks.
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The Syrian opposition and Turkey have long wanted to create such an area, with the backing of Western air power. The hope is the Assad regime would stop its indiscriminate bombing of the north and that Syrian opposition moderates would take over, allowing in aid.
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Ahrar-al-Sham, one of the largest groups of opposition fighters, is considered by many critics as too close to its battle allies, al-Qaeda franchise, the Nusra Front. They have joined together to create the Jaish al Fateh, which is moving fast against the regime in the north, particularly towards the coastal town of Latakia.
Other moderate forces are either weak, or face similar allegations. Even the U.S.-vetted, armed and trained New Syrian Force, was a mere 54 in number when the Nusra Front attacked their base, killing and capturing some of their fighters.
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Is this -- preferred by Iran and Russia for their own differing geopolitical reasons -- the best of a series of awful options? Not really -- it fails to deal with the fundamental reason for the uprising, and the principle cause of civilian casualties in the country, the indiscriminate bombing by the regime.
U.S. President Barack Obama said Assad had to go back in 2011, but in the last months, as Washington hammered out a nuclear deal with Assad's main backer, Iran, the U.S. has been accused of softening its tone out of political expediency.
Now the subject of Assad's departure is center stage once more. There is a reason for that: unless he goes, hardly any of the rebels in the north will be persuaded to stop fighting, no matter what any distant political deal offers them. Assad's bombardment and massacres are at the root of the uprising.
There is a massive paradox here for Washington, which is at the heart of its dilemma: even if they could spend huge amounts of political capital to persuade Russia, Iran and China to turn their backs on Assad, that won't stop the war overnight. There isn't even an obvious alternative in the frame who could lead an interim government in Damascus.
But if they let Assad stay in place, the war will continue too, fueled by a desire for vengeance among Syrians who've seen their loved ones massacred over four years, and think the U.S. no longer cares to defend them. It's a lose-lose for Washington
4. Split the country into four different enclaves: Kurdish, ISIS, other opposition, and regime, and hope they eventually stop fighting
Hard to do without the sides agreeing on borders, and the above four groups are in a fight to the death now. And there is no outside military force willing to impose new boundaries.
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This seemed like the ideal option, to the White House at least. But now millions of Syrian refugees have begun to realize they won't be going back to Syria any time soon, and that a better life might be possible in Europe. Or, if they are poor, they are realizing their U.N. food aid is running out. :-O:-O:-O:-O:-O

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