YEAR AGO

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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO: In January 1985, Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, then president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, led the first such delegation since the revolution in 1959 to visit Cuba and meet with Cuban President Fidel Castro. From left are: then-Archbishop Bernard F. Law of Boston, Bishop Malone, the Rev. David Gallivan of the Bishop’s Secretariat for Latin America, and Castro. The meeting helped lessen tensions between Castro and the Roman Catholic Church, which led to Castro’s 1996 visit to the Vatican and Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit to Havana.