Pope Francis heads to eastern Cuba on Monday to celebrate the second Mass of a trip that has earned him praise for aiding the Communist rulers' rapprochement with Washington but during which he has steered clear of overt politics.<br />He will be the first Pope to visit Holguin, capital of the province where the Castro brothers, Raul and Fidel, grew up.<br />On nearly every block, posters welcoming the pontiff adorn doors and telephone poles, while bike-taxis and horse-drawn carriages traverse below the yellow-and-white flags of the Vatican, fluttering alongside Cuba's red, white, and blue.<br />Raul Castro's government hopes the 78-year-old Argentine pontiff will condemn the still-intact U.S. economic embargo against Cuba before leaving on Tuesday.
