"The Church in Cuba is vital, but I don't think that vitality excludes difficulties, indeed I hold that vitality and difficulties are, in some way, complementary because difficulties demand effort and stir us from lethargy. I think that the difficulties experienced for many years in Cuba by the Church led us to use our pastoral imagination."
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Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (18 October 1936 – 26 July 2019) was a Cuban prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Pinar del RĂo and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of San CristĂłbal de la Habana.
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