Pope Francis lifts 29-year suspension on liberation theology icon
Josephine McKenna
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Continuing a bid to revive a movement that was sidelined by his predecessors, Pope Francis has reinstated a Central American priest who was suspended by the Vatican in the 1980s for his involvement in the political activities of Nicaraguas leftist Sandinista movement.
The Rev. Miguel DEscoto Brockman, 81, was suspended from his duties by St. John Paul II and recently wrote to Francis asking for that order to be revoked so he could celebrate Mass again before he died.
DEscoto and three other dissident priests were suspended in 1985 for defying a church ban on clergy holding government jobs. The Sandinistas, who supported the popular church of liberation theology, overthrew the pro-American regime of Anastasio Somoza in 1979. DEscoto served as Nicaraguas foreign minister from 1979 to 1990.
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