• His last interview (01/29/2020) "The revolution is another way to create a world for God"
  • Liberation Theology.The Pope lifts the suspension to Ernesto Cardenal
  • 40 years of Sandinismo. "Nicaragua has fallen into another dictatorship like Somoza's"

The poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal has passed away this Sunday at age 95. Cardinal was one of the highest representatives of Liberation Theology in Nicaragua, and his political militancy cost him the suspension of the priesthood for 30 years. It was just over a year ago that Pope Francis rehabilitated him from that sanction that was once imposed by John Paul II.

"The Holy Father has benevolently granted the absolution of all canonical censures" imposed on Cardinal, the Managua Nunciature reported a year ago . At that time, Cardinal was hospitalized with gallbladder problems.

To remember why the Vatican suspended Cardinal, one must go back to the Sandinista revolution, which made him Minister of Culture for a decade. The most remembered fact of this case occurred when Pope John Paul II publicly admonished Cardinal at the Augusto Sandino airport , during his first visit to Managua.

It was "unfair the reprimand of the Pope," said Cardinal in his book 'The Lost Revolution', deserving of the Reina Sofía Award for Ibero-American Poetry in 2012.

However, "the priest accepted the canonical penalty that was imposed on him and has always adhered to it, without carrying out any pastoral activity," as the Nunciature recalled.

The one that has been, if not the last one, one of his last interviews, he granted to this newspaper just a month ago, on the occasion of the publication of his complete poetry: "For me it is the most important thing: the revolution, which also means create a world for God, "he declared.

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