Nicaragua’s Prisoner Release: A Naturalistic Mirage Concealing Christ’s Kingship
EWTN News reports the release of dozens of Nicaraguan political prisoners following U.S. diplomatic pressure against Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship, coinciding with Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes’ participation in a mural restoration ceremony. The article frames these events through secular geopolitical lenses, celebrating temporal liberties while omitting the sole foundation of true peace: the Social Kingship of Christ.
Naturalism Masquerading as Liberation
The article applauds prisoner releases achieved through U.S. intervention, quoting the American embassy’s claim that “peace is only possible with freedom!” This Enlightenment axiom directly contradicts Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, which declares: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19). By attributing societal healing to geopolitical maneuvering rather than divine law, the report perpetuates the naturalist heresy condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Error 57).
Ecclesial Collaboration With Tyranny
“Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes received from the central government of Nicaragua the completed restoration work on the historic mural in St. Dominic Parish.”
This cooperation between Brenes — a prelate of the conciliar sect — and Nicaragua’s persecutor-regime exemplifies the betrayal of Catholic principles. The mural restoration becomes a theatrical prop obscuring Ortega’s systematic desecration of churches, expulsion of religious orders, and imprisonment of faithful priests. True shepherds would emulate St. John the Baptist’s defiance of Herod, not normalize relations with persecutors of Holy Mother Church. As the Syllabus condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80).
The False Dichotomy of Secular Liberation
Former ambassador Arturo McFields’ jubilation over prisoner releases reveals modernist captivity to anthropocentric politics: “What happened in Venezuela has unleashed fear in the tyrannical government and hope in the people.” This reduces human dignity to political calculus, ignoring the constitutio Christi Domini — that nations only achieve justice when submitting to Christ’s reign (Psalm 2:10-12). The article’s exclusive focus on earthly liberty ignores the greater captivity: Nicaragua’s enslavement to modernist apostasy through its collaborationist “bishops.” As Pius XI warned: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty” (Quas Primas §19).
Omission of Supernal Realities
Nowhere does the analysis mention the Nicaraguan martyrs’ sacrifices or the necessity of supernatural grace to transform societies. The report’s secular framing reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, instead promoting indifferentism through humanistic dialogue. This silence echoes the modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Until Nicaraguans embrace the Immutable Faith and reject both Marxist tyranny and Americanist liberalism, no temporal “freedom” will satisfy the human heart made for God.
Conclusion: The Antidote to Dual Tyrannies
Ortega’s communism and American democracy equally reject Christ’s crown. True liberation requires Nicaragua’s consecration to the Sacred Heart — not through false apparitions like “Fatima,” but through submission to the perennial Magisterium. As the Syllabus proclaims: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39). Until both Managua and Washington bend before the King of Kings, their power struggles will merely exchange one earthly prison for another.
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Dictatorship in Nicaragua releases dozens of political prisoners after U.S. pressure (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.01.2026