Nicaraguan Nuns’ Departure Exposes Conciliar Church’s Collusion with Tyrants
The EWTN News portal reports that the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family have left Nicaragua after 33 years, claiming voluntary departure due to “fulfilled goals” while denying government expulsion. Journalist Miguel Mendoza alleges coercion by Ortega’s regime, citing confiscation threats and harassment. Researcher Martha Molina documents 1,030 attacks against Catholics since 2018, with multiple religious orders expelled. The Managua archdiocese under “Cardinal” Brenes parroted the nuns’ version, contradicting persecution evidence.
Naturalization of Apostasy Through Bureaucratic Language
The sisters’ statement epitomizes the neo-church’s surrender to persecution through euphemistic language: “the goals that brought us to these lands have been fulfilled”. This implies a merely temporal mission contradicting Our Lord’s command to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). True religious orders understand their mission as perpetual until the Church Militant’s earthly end, not as temporary social projects. The Council of Trent (Session 25) condemned those abandoning established missions without grave cause. Their claim of non-persecution while Ortega’s regime has expelled 18 other orders reveals either cowardice or doctrinal compromise.
Silence on Sacramental Life as Heretical Omission
Nowhere do the sisters mention protecting access to the Sacraments – the raison d’ĂȘtre of religious life according to Perfectae Caritatis (Pius XII, 1950). Their listed “achievements” – “catechesis, formation of lay leaders, disaster relief” – reduce the Church to an NGO. Contrast this with the Roman Catechism‘s teaching: “The primary duty of religious is to lead souls to Christ through the Sacraments, prayer, and penance.” The sisters’ social work absent sacramental emphasis confirms Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas against reducing Christ’s kingdom to “earthly welfare” while ignoring His divine sovereignty.
Managua Archdiocese’s Complicity in Persecution
The conciliar “archdiocese” compounds the scandal by endorsing the sisters’ narrative, stating they contacted the nuns who confirmed “autonomous decisions… not external reasons.” This directly contradicts Molina’s documented evidence of 43 confiscated Church properties and Ortega’s systematic attacks. Such obsequious collaboration with persecutors violates the Codex Juris Canonici (1917) Canon 120 which commands bishops to “defend ecclesiastical rights against civil power.” True shepherds follow St. Thomas More’s example – martyrdom over collaboration.
Modernist Language as Doctrinal Betrayal
The sisters’ vocabulary exposes post-conciliar corruption: “discernment,” “pastoral presence,” “prudence and security” – all neo-modernist terms enabling capitulation. Compare this to St. Ignatius Martyr’s letter to Trajan: “Where Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. We cannot cease being Christians.” Authentic religious abandon missions only when physically expelled at gunpoint – not through bureaucratic “discernment.” Their refusal to disclose departure details “for operational security” confirms fear of regime reprisals, making their denial of persecution objectively false.
EWTN’s Complicit Neutrality
The report’s false balance between the sisters’ claims and persecution evidence exemplifies conciliar journalism’s moral bankruptcy. By presenting both sides as equally valid rather than denouncing the nuns’ betrayal, EWTN perpetuates Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae error of religious indifferentism. True Catholic media would condemn this departure as Pius XI did in Divini Redemptoris: “No one can serve two masters. When God is excluded, civil authority becomes tyrannical.”
Conclusion: Blueprint for Ecclesial Surrender
This episode demonstrates the conciliar church’s complete inability to defend Christ’s rights against tyrants. As the true Church taught through Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum (Proposition 79), religious liberty leads to “corruption of morals and minds.” Until Catholics reject neo-modernist equivocation and demand the Social Reign of Christ the King, such betrayals will proliferate. Let Nicaragua’s suffering faithful remember Leo XIII’s injunction in Libertas Praestantissimum: “When necessity compels, resist oppression through united action.”
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Nuns leave Nicaragua after years of evangelization, deny expulsion (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.01.2026