In a ceremony joined by President Raul Castro, Cuba's Catholic bishops have inaugurated the San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary, the country's first major church-related construction in the half century since the revolution led by Fidel Castro.
Joined by Cuba's bishops and representatives of the Vatican and of the Catholic Church in the United States, Mexico, Italy and the Bahamas, Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino noted that the late Pope John Paul II blessed the first stone of the new seminary at a Mass during his January 1998 visit to the island.
