Fidel Castro Dies and Goes to Heaven Castro finds himself at the pearly gates. St. Peter is there, surprised to see him. He says, ""Fidel, you've done so many awful things in your life, how did you get here?"" Castro says, ""It was the Pope. He blessed me and told me I must have been chosen by God, so I was certainly going to heaven."" ""Chosen by God? No, that can't be right. Why would he say that?"" So Castro tells him the story: ""When Pope John Paul visited Havana in 1998, I personally welco…