“They are a mafia”, qualifies Daniel Ortega about the Catholic Church

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortegadescribed this Tuesday as “mafia” to the Catholic Church and accused her of being undemocratic for not allowing Catholics to elect the Dadcardinals, bishops and priests.

During an official act in which he honored the Nicaraguan hero Augusto C. Sandino (1895-1934), the president said that Jesus Christ rose in the towns and “not by the example that priests, bishops, cardinals, and popes can give, who are a mafia”.

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“Look at the crimes they have committed. How many crimes have they committed and crimes continue to come out every day and they are being judged! Crimes they commit for having absurd regulations”, launched Ortega in his speech offered from Avenida de Bolívar to Chávez, in Managua.

The Sandinista leader accused the leaders of the Catholic Church of committing “crimes in the financial field” and assured that “there they have a process right now in the Vatican, for how they have embezzled millions, because they have always handled millions”.

“I do not respect kings or popes”

Likewise, Ortega said that he does not respect “neither to the kings nor to the popes” and neither to the Nicaraguan bishops.

“What respect can I have for the bishops I have met in Nicaragua, if they were Somocistas? He was a child when the funeral of (Anastasio) Somoza (García, in 1956) took place and the bishops buried Somoza as a prince of the Church, that is, as if he were a cardinal of the Catholic Church”, he reproached.

Then he questioned the method of election of the Pope: “Who chooses the Pope? How many votes does the Pope get among the Christian people?”.

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“If we are going to talk about democracy (…), the people should first elect the priests of the town, then the bishops, the cardinals, and there would have to be a vote among the Catholic people everywhere so that also elect the Pope by direct vote of the people”, he indicated.

“Let the people decide and not the mafia that is organized in the Vatican!”, he emphasized.

“Socialism is Christianity”

He maintained that Jesus Christ was his inspiration to be a revolutionary and praised that the son of God “He did not dress like bishops dress, much less like cardinals or the Pope, nor did he live in mansions like cardinals and the Pope”.

“They say that I am a communist, and I have said this on other occasions when they have asked me: I am a revolutionary thanks to Christ. Through Christ I became a revolutionary and then as a revolutionary I met Marx, Engels”, he indicated.

He insisted that “Christ is the one I always carry in my heart” and that socialism, which he said promotes his Government, “It is Christianity and that is what Nicaraguans and the Sandinista National Liberation Front defend.”.

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On February 12, the Pope Francisco regretted the prison sentence of the bishop critical of the Government of Nicaragua, Monsignor Rolando Alvarezand encouraged policy makers to “sincere search” of peace in that country.

“The news coming from Nicaragua has hurt me not a little, and I couldn’t help but remember with concern the Bishop of matagalpaMonsignor Rolando Alvarez, whom I love very much, sentenced to 26 years in prison and also to the people who have been deported to the United States”, said the pontiff after the Sunday Angelus that day.

Bishop Álvarez, very critical of the Ortega government, was sentenced on February 10 to 26 years and 4 months in prison after being found guilty of crimes considered “treason”, in the midst of the crisis that the country, and after refusing to be banished to USA.

Source: Elcomercio

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