The Silence of Ortega’s Persecution and the Complicity of a Dying Church
EWTN News portal reports on a panel discussion held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 2026, where Rosalia Gutierrez-Huete Miller, president of the Nicaragua Freedom Coalition, lamented the “silence” surrounding the persecution of Catholics in Nicaragua under the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo dictatorship. Miller described government vetting of homilies, surveillance of churches by spies, the cancellation of Holy Week processions, and the general repression of religious freedom. She quoted Monsignor Silvio José Báez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, as saying the status of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua is “silence.” The article, while ostensibly reporting on genuine persecution, is framed entirely within the naturalistic, human-rights-based discourse of the post-conciliar Church, reducing a profound spiritual crisis to a matter of political oppression and failing to address the deeper theological and ecclesial rot that enables such persecution to flourish unchallenged by the very structures that should be the Church’s bulwark.





