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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, August 16,1984
CONTENTS
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Roger & Paul Concert 6
Olympics 7
Election Focus: 8, 9
The Democrats & 10
Teen
Leadership
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Nicaragua:
Priests To Keep Government Posts
MANAGUA, Nicaragua
(NC) -- Three priests
serving in Nicaragua’s
government will defy
church pressure and will
not resign from their
posts, according to the
Aug. 13 edition of the
government newspaper
Barricada.
The newspaper quoted
Nicaraguan Culture
Minister Father Ernesto
Cardenal as saying,
“because of the obligation
to the poor and to the
revolution of the poor, we
are willing to accept any
sanctions imposed on us.”
Father Cardenal
confirmed that he, Foreign
Minister Father Miguel
d’Escoto, and his brother,
Education Minister Father
Fernando Cardenal, a
Jesuit, had been told of an
Aug. 10 Vatican statement
that clerics are forbidden
from holding public posts
‘‘which entail a
participation in the
exercise of public power.”
Father Fernando
Cardenal was ordered in
mid-July by Jesuit
Superior General
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach to
decline the education
minister post or face
“painful” consequences.
Father Cardenal “cannot
carry out this assignment
because of its incompatibi
lity with his condition as a
Jesuit,” said a statement
issued July 16 at Jesuit
headquarters in Rome.
Father Cardenal took
the post, saying he had
received no formal direct
order, said a Jesuit source
in Nicaragua. Father
Cardenal said he had only
seen press reports of the
Jesuit injunction,
according to the source.
Fr. Fernando Cardenal
Jesuit officials in Rome
said that they had learned
of Father Cardenal’s
appointment in the press
and were not consulted
ahead of time.
The Vatican in an Aug.
10 statement publicly
supported Father
Kolvenbach’s order. The
Vatican said it had
received reports that
Father Cardenal told the
press he took the
education post without
opposition from his
superiors. The priest’s
comments were
“usrprising and almost
incredible,” the Vatican
said.
The statement also said
that new canon law
categorically prohibits
priests from holding
government posts.
Besides the Cardenal
brothers and Father
d’Escoto, another priest,
Father Edgar Parrales,
holds a Nicaraguan
government job. Father
Parrales, who is
ambassador to the
Organization of American
States, was not mentioned
in reports on the Barricada
article.
The priests have
retained their positions
under a 1981 agreement
with the bishops by which
they suspended their
public priestly ministry
while holding their
non-church jobs.
The bishops had in
1979 given priests
permission to temporarily
take government posts
until “the exceptional
circumstances” following
the Nicaraguan revolution
were overcome and lay
people could be found for
the jobs. In 1980, the
bishops began demanding
that the priests leave
government because
enough time had elapsed
to train lay people.
Originally the bishops
gave cautious support to
the Sandinistas, who
toppled the dictatorship of
Anastasio Somoza in a
civil war. But their
opposition, led by
Archbishop Miguel
Obando Bravo of
Managua, has been
growing over issues of
freedom of the press and
religious broadcast media,
treatment of the Miskito
Indians, and a military
conscription law that the
bishops say was aimed at
teaching youths Sandinista
ideology.
Tensions grew when the
bishops last year promoted
Catholic conscientious
objection to the draft and
urged dialogue between
the government and
anti-Sandinista guerrillas.
On July 9, 10 foreign
priests were expelled, after
some of them participated
in a march in support of a
priest the government
arrested for allegedly
aiding guerrillas.
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