Nicaragua’s Political Prisoner Release Masks Deeper Spiritual Crisis
Nicaragua’s Political Prisoner Release Masks Deeper Spiritual Crisis
Catholic News Agency reports the Ortega-Murillo regime released “dozens” of political prisoners following U.S. diplomatic pressure. The January 10 announcement coincided with the dictatorship’s 19th anniversary, with families confirming the liberation of at least seven opposition figures including evangelical pastor Rudy Palacios. Former Nicaraguan ambassador Arturo McFields Yescas characterized this as a reaction to Venezuela’s prisoner releases and U.S. State Department demands, noting: “What happened in Venezuela has unleashed fear in the tyrannical government and hope in the people.” The report concludes with Managua archdiocesan authorities celebrating the regime’s restoration of a damaged mural of the Risen Christ in St. Dominic Parish – a structure that survived Managua’s 1972 earthquake but collapsed in December 2024.
Naturalistic Reduction of Religious Persecution
The article reduces Nicaragua’s religious persecution to mere political conflict, ignoring its theological roots in the rejection of Christus Rex (Christ the King). While detailing church confiscations and pastoral imprisonments, it omits the fundamental cause: Nicaragua’s violation of the immutabile principium (immutable principle) that “the nations of the world must be subject to Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §18). The report’s secular framing – celebrating geopolitical pressure from the United States – embodies the condemned error that “Church and State should be separated” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, §55).
“The U.S. embassy in Nicaragua posted… ‘Peace is only possible with freedom!'”
This statement inverts Catholic eschatology by implying temporal liberty constitutes peace, rather than recognizing that pax Christi in regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ) requires nations’ submission to divine law (Quas Primas, §11). The article’s applause for Protestant pastor releases while ignoring the destruction of Catholic sacramental life reveals its theological vacuity – a silence Pius XI condemned when warning that states rejecting Christ’s reign “will sooner or later experience the coffers of His wrath” (Quas Primas, §33).
Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in Desecration
The Managua archdiocese’s celebration of mural restoration constitutes grave scandal given the regime’s systematic church desecrations. Cardinal Brenes’ collaboration with persecutors of Christ’s Church manifests the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Ecclesia militans (the Church militant). This echoes St. Pius X’s condemnation of Modernist clergy who “enter into dealings with the enemies of the Church” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §3).
“Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes attended the presentation… restoring work on the historic mural”
The term “cardinal” appears without quotation marks despite Brenes’ participation in the post-conciliar apostasy. Authentic Catholic prelates would echo St. John Fisher’s defiance before tyrants, not pose with vandal-restorers of sacred art. The report’s description of mural damage from “constant seismic activity” serves as metaphor for the conciliar sect’s destruction of doctrinal foundations through perpetual “aggiornamento.”
False Ecumenism in Prisoner Advocacy
The article equates Catholic and Protestant sufferings under persecution, stating without distinction that “pastors, religious workers” were imprisoned. This levels theological differences in classic ecumenical fashion condemned by Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (§10): “The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics to give to such enterprises their encouragement or support.” The joint liberation of Catholic and evangelical prisoners illustrates the conciliar sect’s practical denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church).
Omission of Supernatural Remedies
Nowhere does the report mention the Rosary, Eucharistic reparation, or consecration to the Sacred Heart – the weapons that defeated historical tyrants. Instead, it promotes reliance on U.S. political pressure, embodying the naturalism Pius XII called “the sin of the century.” The article’s concluding focus on structural restoration of a mural while ignoring sacramental restoration of desecrated churches proves its authors worship aesthetics over doctrine – the very Modernism St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” (Lamentabili Sane, §65).
Source:
Dictatorship in Nicaragua releases dozens of political prisoners after U.S. pressure (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.01.2026