Quote of the Day

“His Eminence is not an enemy of socialism and he does not condemn to eternal fire those who of us who struggle for a better world on the basis of Marxism-Leninism.”

Fidel Castro, who not so long ago used to think religion was the opium of the masses, praising Metropolitan Kirill, the head of foreign relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, who has just been in Cuba consecrating a newly-built cathedral.