Are the Castros willing to confess?

Who am I to tell the Pope how to be, well ... the Pope? But after President Raul Castro of Cuba, an observant communist for most of his life, said he was so impressed with Francis that he was considering returning to the Catholic Church, I would have liked for the Pope to first have handed him a list of political prisoners, adding, “Free these people, and then we’ll talk.” If Francis said anything like that, it was in private. To borrow Marco Rubio’s very good line about Raul’s possible conversion, we await “a pretty long confessional.”

As it is, Castro remains the ruler of a country that has a miserable record on human rights.