A Latin American Pope has been instrumental in making peace in the 50-year conflict between the US and Cuba. The announcement that diplomatic relations will resume in the New Year shows the unrivalled reach of Vatican diplomacy It has not taken Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis since March 2013, and his team of helpers in the Holy See very long to make their mark on the history, spiritual and temporal, of the twenty-first century. Last month, led by him, they emerged as the peacemakers between two governments that had been at each others’ throats for more than half a century – Cuba and the United States.During the last five decades of conflict between the “land of the free” and its smaller authoritarian neighbour, lying just 100 miles or so south of Key West, th