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Church officials defend the practice, says the Post , as a way of avoiding charging the poor to see the pontiff.
The NYT lead observes that despite Castro's talk portraying the Pope as an ally in the struggle against American imperialism, there's still plenty of religious repression in Cuba, The Times ' Larry Rohter gives an eyewitness account of Havana cops ordering kids from a church group to stop putting up posters advertising the pontiff's visit.
But the pontiff also criticized Cuban atheism and called for the protection of all Cubans' rights.
Express urged the pontiff "to plead the cause of political and other detainees," which he duly did.
The Post has a perhaps-too-friendly story about the Pope, who's visiting Mexico: "To understand the significance of this pontiff, it helps to see him through his own eyes, and measure him by the yardstick of church history."