WASHINGTON, JULY 17 (ZENIT.org)

    Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston and president of the U.S. Bishops' Commission for International Policy, requested that the United States lift the embargo that has weighed on Cuba over the past 40 years.

    "The embargo imposed by the United States has, in my view, long exhausted the moral legitimacy it may once have had and should be abandoned," Boston's Cardinal said.

    Cardinal Law applauded recent efforts in Congress to ease restrictions on the sale of food and medicines to Cuba. "Whatever the motives some members may have for seeking an end to restrictions on the sale of food and medicines to Cuba, any measures that relieve the present unjust shortages of basic foods and medicines for the average Cuban, especially the poor, are to be commended," he said. ZE00071708

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