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Cloistered nun returns to Cuba despite her anti-Castro sentiments.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
HAVANA, Cuba _ The leaders of the Cuban government in their big breezy hillside homes have an unlikely neighbor in what was once the capital city's upper-class Nuevo Vedado district _ a convent of five cloistered Dominican nuns.
Although Cuban President Fidel Castro is an avowed atheist, the communist island is hospitable to nuns, who have long served as nurses in what was traditionally a Catholic country. Pope John Paul II's historic visit in 1998 also eased tensions.
Among the Nuevo Vedado nuns is Texas-bred Sister Maria Rosario Fernandez, who left Havana as a teen-ager but has returned to pray for the country and its government. Sometimes, she admits, ...
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