Conciliar ‘Bishop’ Mata Paraded by Sandinistas: Theater of False Persecution
The EWTN News portal (via its Spanish-language service ACI Prensa) reports that the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has released a nine-minute video showing “Bishop” Abelardo Mata, “bishop emeritus of Estelí,” who had been missing since late June. In the footage, recorded at an unknown date, the 80-year-old prelate appears alongside pro-government legislator Adolfo Pastrán, discussing his “monastic life” of prayer, study, and tending crops at an estate in Tisma. Critics, including “Fr.” Edwing Román of Miami and former Nicaraguan ambassador Arturo McFields, denounce the video as staged propaganda, noting Mata remains under house arrest and incommunicado, a replay of the regime’s tactics with “Bishop” Rolando Álvarez. The article concludes with a call for a day of prayer, “Masses,” and the “thousand Hail Marys” on the occasion of Mata’s “golden jubilee of priesthood” (ordained 1976). This spectacle exposes not the persecution of the Church, but the sordid collaboration between a Masonic-communist dictatorship and the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, each exploiting the other to legitimize their anti-Catholic rule.