Britain’s ambassador to the Holy See outlines the Vatican’s unique perspective on the international stage The circumstances of the Cuban “breakthrough” were made for Pope Francis. A Latin American, close to Cardinal Jaime Ortega of Havana, and advised by a team of experts with direct Cuban experience, the Pope could bring to the problem insights and connections unavailable to his predecessors. Presidents Obama and Raúl Castro were ready to talk to each other. Add a papal shove, and the script for the beginning of the end of the Cuban-United States soap opera was complete.That does not, however, answer the question of why it was the Holy See that was uniquely placed to intervene when it did, and how it found itself in the role of facilitator. The response li