Posted on 12/22/2022 6:40:08 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Dec 21, 2022 / 11:27 am The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, once again attacked the Catholic Church in the Central American country, accusing it of “calling for bloodshed,” and said, “I never had respect for the bishops.”
The Sandinista dictator made the statement Dec. 19 during the 25th commencement for graduates in police sciences from the Walter Mendoza Martínez Police Academy.
“I never had respect for the bishops, I couldn’t believe in the bishops, in some priests, and in that approach there were exceptions of priests who practiced Christianity like Gaspar García Laviana, who without being Nicaraguan had more commitment to the people,” Ortega said.
Influenced by liberation theology, Gaspar García Laviana was a Spanish priest and guerrilla fighter who took up arms and participated in the communist Sandinista revolution in its fight against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in the 1970s.
Ortega’s remarks came a week after the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, who was abducted in the middle of the night by the dictatorship and has been held under house arrest since August, was accused of “conspiracy to undermine national security and sovereignty” and “spreading fake news.”
Ortega also said that he was raised “in a Catholic, Christian family, but I learned over time that at the end of the day, behind a cassock is a human being. The cassock doesn’t make anyone a saint, the habit doesn’t make the monk.”
The dictator recalled the 2018 protests that demanded his removal from power. In particular, he referred to the police intervention in the town of Masaya, where the regime also attacked the Catholic Church on several occasions.
“They thought that the police were defeated and the attacks were in different quarters every day, and they came out of some churches, not all the churches, but......
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I thought they were all commies, like Pope Marx.
I’m sure the Pope agrees with Ortega, they are birds of a feather.
I, as an individual, do not want to live as a worker ant in an ant colony, or be a worker bee in a hive. I believe most people agree. That said, Ortega and all other Marxists and those who believe in central control of society generally believe that they will not be the drone or the worker. They envision themselves as the great ‘saviors’, the Queens, the leaders, those who are above all others. To think that way is to identify yourself as small and ignorant - as was Marx.
Ortega? How is that cabron still alive??
Thanks.
A friend of former senators Chris Dodd D-Ct., John Kerry, and Tom Harkin D-Id. ?
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