Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an amazing collection of jabots – or collars – that she’s worn to trim her staid black robes since joining the court in 1993. While staying mum, apparently in hopes of not inflaming tensions, the Vatican has been publishing regular expressions of solidarity from Latin American bishops in recent days on its Vatican News site.“Dissents speak to a future age.” – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Vatican again offered no comment Friday and didn’t report the news immediately on its in-house media portal. That silence was broken last Friday when Monsignor Juan Antonio Cruz, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the Organization of American States, expressed concern about the situation and asked both parties to “seek ways of understanding.” The Vatican remained silent about the investigation of Álvarez for nearly two weeks, drawing criticism from some Latin American human rights activists and intellectuals.
The conference of Latin American Catholic bishops decried what it called a “siege” of priests and bishops, the expulsion of members of religious communities and “constant harassment” targeting the Nicaraguan people and the church. The Archdiocese of Managua had earlier expressed support for Álvarez. Now he appears to once again see political benefit in direct confrontation. The former Marxist guerrilla infuriated the Vatican in the 1980s, but gradually forged an alliance with the church as he moved to regain the presidency in 2007 after a long period out of power. “And so they continue to push the envelope because they don’t see that short of a military invasion, there is not going to be anything that can stop them.”įriday’s arrests follow weeks of elevated tensions between the church and Ortega’s government, which has had a complicated relationship with Nicaragua’s predominant religion and its leaders for more than four decades. Orozco said the government is betting its pressure on the church won’t bring a “proportional response” by the international community. “And he makes allusions not to incite violence or to call for resistance, but he does say there is oppression.” “(Álvarez’s) narrative, it’s based on the religious script, the biblical script about opposing the oppressor,” Orozco said. The others who were taken with Álvarez - they did not specify who or how many - were still being processed, police said. Álvarez was being held under guard at a house in Managua, where he had been allowed to meet with relatives and Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the police statement said. “With the continuation of the destabilizing and provocative activities, the aforementioned public order operation became necessary.” “For several days a positive communication from the Matagalpa diocese was awaited with a lot of patience, prudence and sense of responsibility, that never materialized,” the statement said. The National Police confirmed the detentions in a statement later, saying that the operation was carried out to allow “the citizenry and families of Matagalpa to recover normalcy.” At this time the National Police have entered the Episcopal rectory of our Matagalpa diocese.” Early Friday, the Matagalpa diocese posted on social media, “#SOS #Urgente.
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