Cuban Dissenters Find a Niche in Church

HAVANA—Last year, as Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro took to his state-run newspaper Granma to defend the dictator as a revolutionary hero.

Now, the former Cuban leader faces an unlikely voice of dissent on that Libya stance—from a publication financed by the Catholic Church and published here in his own capital.

Pope Benedict XVI left Cuba last week calling on its government to allow more freedom for the church and for Cuba to change. He also leaves behind a mechanism to help accomplish this: A network of Catholic-sponsored newsletters and magazines, reaching tens of thousands of Cubans, that …

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