Priest who defied pope, Fernando Cardenal, dies at 82
AP
Fernando Cardenal, one of the priests who famously rebuffed a papal order to quit Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government, died in Managua on Saturday. He was 82 and long back in the good graces of the church.
The Jesuit was a practitioner of liberation theology and he who joined the Sandinista rebels after they toppled the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979, first leading a widely praised literacy campaign and then serving as education minister. (...)
(es) Muere Fernando Cardenal en Nicaragua (AP - Terra)























