Managua, Nicaragua, Mar 2, 2020 / 05:06 pm MT (CNA).- Fr. Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan poet and Marxist liberation theology activist whose priestly faculties were long suspended for his assuming a public office, died Sunday at the age of 95.
Managua, Nicaragua, Mar 2, 2020 / 05:06 pm (CNA).- Fr. Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan poet and Marxist liberation theology activist whose priestly faculties were long suspended for his assuming a.
- Ernesto Cardenal (Granada (Nicaragua), 20 januari 1925 – Managua, 1 maart 2020) was een Nicaraguaans katholiek priester, dichter en politicus. Cardenal was als een van de voornaamste bevrijdingstheologen verbonden aan de Sandinistische beweging. Van 1979 tot 1987 was hij de eerste minister van Cultuur van Nicaragua. Hij staat ook bekend als.
- Ernesto Cardenal was born in Granada, Nicaragua and attended both the University of Mexico and Columbia University in New York City. A former Catholic priest who studied in Kentucky with the scholar, poet, and Trappist monk Thomas Merton, Cardenal was involved in the tumultuous political scene in Nicaragua, and Central America generally, since the 1960s.
Fr. Cardenal died March 1 after a brief hospitalization.
His wake will be at the Mount of Olives funeral home, and a funeral Mass will be said March 3 Managua's Immaculate Conception Cathedral.
Fr. Cardenal was born Jan. 20, 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He studied literature and was for a time at the Trappist's Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky, but he returned to Nicaragua and was ordained a priest in 1965.
The following year he founded an artists colony on an archipelago in Lake Nicaragua.
When the Sandinista National Liberation Front ousted Nicaragua's Somoza dictatorship in 1979, Fr. Cardenal was named Minister of Culture in the new government. Canon law forbids clerics from assuming public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.
St. John Paul II publicly reprimanded Fr. Cardenal when he visited Nicaragua in 1983.
The priest continued to serve as Nicaragua's culture minister until 1987, and he later distanced himself from the FSLN.
He was absolved of all canonical censures one year ago. The Nicaraguan apostolic nunciature announced Feb. 18, 2019 that Pope Francis had accepted the request recently made by Fr. Cardenal 'to be readmitted to the exercise of the priestly ministry.'
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Fr. Cardenal was born Jan. 20, 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. He studied literature and was for a time at the Trappist's Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky, but he returned to Nicaragua and was ordained a priest in 1965.
The following year he founded an artists colony on an archipelago in Lake Nicaragua.
When the Sandinista National Liberation Front ousted Nicaragua's Somoza dictatorship in 1979, Fr. Cardenal was named Minister of Culture in the new government. Canon law forbids clerics from assuming public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.
St. John Paul II publicly reprimanded Fr. Cardenal when he visited Nicaragua in 1983.
The priest continued to serve as Nicaragua's culture minister until 1987, and he later distanced himself from the FSLN.
He was absolved of all canonical censures one year ago. The Nicaraguan apostolic nunciature announced Feb. 18, 2019 that Pope Francis had accepted the request recently made by Fr. Cardenal 'to be readmitted to the exercise of the priestly ministry.'
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