The Pope vs. the Sandinistas "I would wish to invite you to pray for the church of Nicaragua, which in recent days has lived through a sad event. It is especially serious, added to the trials already suffered there." Pope John Paul II's words, coming at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square last Wednesday, were unusually strong, but so was the provocation. Two days earlier, Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government had expelled ten foreign priests, four of them Spaniards, whom It accused of being involved in anti-government activities.
Seven of the expelled clergymen had joined Archbishop Miguel...
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