Monsignor Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, responded to the dictator Daniel Ortega in the face of the virulent attacks launched by the Sandinista caudillo during the 43rd anniversary of the Police.
Ortega cataloged the Catholic Church as being “a perfect dictatorship” and said that they cannot speak of democracy when even the pope himself is imposed by a group of religious. Likewise, he again accused the Nicaraguan bishops and priests of orchestrating the alleged “coup d’état” of 2018.
The bishop wrote on his Twitter account that the dictator’s statements reflect ignorance, lies and cynicism. In addition, he ironized that Ortega speaks of democracy when he is a dictator who is illegitimately in the Presidency of Nicaragua.
«How much ignorance, how much lies and how much cynicism! A dictator giving lessons on democracy; someone who illegitimately exercises power, criticizing the authority that Jesus gave his Church; someone who is an atheist, lamenting that he does not feel represented by the Church”, Monsignor Báez wrote on the social network.
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“An institution like the Catholic Church using its bishops to stage a coup, since when do they have the morals to talk about democracy? Who chooses the bishops, the pope? If you are going to be democratic, begin to elect the priests of each community with the vote of the population, otherwise they are all taxes, it is a tyranny, a perfect dictatorship,” the president stressed.
The dictator’s words come after Pope Francis affirmed, on September 15, that there is «dialogue» between the Holy See and the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murilloalthough according to the maximum leader, “this does not mean that he approves or disapproves of everything the government does.”
“I would say to His Holiness the Pope, with all due respect, I do not feel represented, because of everything we know, that terrible story, but also because the bishops speak of democracy and do not practice it,” insisted Ortega, who He added that the Catholic Church already has “its moorings” to choose its leaders.
In May of this year, the Archdiocese of Managua, through the Justice and Peace Commission, rejected the persecution exercised by the Daniel Ortega regime against its religious and bishops. In a press release, the Catholic entity assures that it will continue to denounce the “social structures of sin” and will always accompany “the people, the poor and the weak.”
Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, is the first bishop arrested since Ortega returned to power in 2007 after coordinating a Government Junta from 1979 to 1985 and presiding over the country for the first time from 1985 to 1990. Nine other priests also They are in the prisons of the dictatorship.
The Police have also entered by force, raided and desecrated parishes and chapels throughout the country, have prevented parishioners from receiving the Eucharist inside the temple and besieged other priests in their churches. It also prohibited the Archdiocese of Managua from carrying out a procession with the pilgrim image of the Virgin of Fatima, this same measure was extended to Matagalpa and Masaya.
