Pope reinstates Ernesto Cardenal

Pope Francis has rehabilitated Father Ernesto Cardenal, a priest-poet that John Paul II suspended “a divinis” some 35 years ago for refusing to quit his cabinet post in Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.Cardenal, who is now 94 years old and dying, was banned in 1984 from celebrating Mass and administering the sacraments.

 

 

 

 

 

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