It’s not contrition when you keep sinning.
Throw open the jails, and make restitution to the widows, and then we can talk about “contrition.”
God knows all!
That's my thinking as well. If Castro is really sincere and repentant, then why wait until the Pope comes for a visit a month or so from now?
"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can say to yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. (Matt. 3:7-9)
Does anyone really know they have the next minute to live???