Cuban bishop calls for dialogue amid protracted national crisis

ROME – One of Cuba’s pastors has called for dialogue and concrete collaboration to help the people amid widespread desperation and a social crisis that recently prompted the island’s bishops to cancel a planned visit to Rome to meet the pope.

Speaking to Crux, Bishop Arturo González Amador said, “this is the moment to tell the world: do not close your eyes, and much less your heart, to the suffering of the Cuban people.”

“This is not the time. It is not the time to condemn.