Posted on 03/12/2022 5:18:12 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME – Closing itself off even more from the international community, the government of Daniel Ortega declared the papal representative to Nicaragua “persona non grata” and expelled him.
Polish Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, the apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua, was forced to leave the country following his “de-facto expulsion” and is currently in Rome, Crux has been able to confirm.
The nunciature published a short note on March 7 simply saying that the Polish prelate had “absented” from the country the previous day.
The Vatican is expected to release a statement before the end of the week to clarify the circumstances of his departure, making it clear that he was expelled by the government and not called back by the Holy See.
A turning point in the deterioration of relations between the Vatican and the Ortega regime was on November 18, 2021, when the Nicaraguan government annulled the figure of “dean of the diplomatic corps” by decree. In most countries with a Catholic majority, the papal nuncio traditionally serves as dean of the diplomatic corps.
Sommertag was removed as dean soon after he began to use the term “political prisoners,” which he had avoided during the almost three years he served as a behind-the-scenes interlocutor between the government and the families of the hundreds of prisoners.
Among those being held by the government are all the opposition candidates who had voiced an intention to run against Ortega in the presidential elections held last year.
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Apparently the Vatican is too communist even for leftist Nicaragua.
Yeah thats pretty bad.
HA!
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