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reg.nicaragua: 35.0 issuing: The Popes 1983 Visit to Nicaragua Written 2:19 PM Feb 6, 1996 by nicanet in cdp:reg.nicaragua
The 1983 Visit of Pope John Paul II to Nicaragua
By Katherine Hoyt, March 1983
With all the misinformation being published practiced now about Pope John Paul IIs prior visit to Nicaragua in March of 1983, I decided that I would make available a letter I wrote to my parents a few days after that visit. By the time of this letter, I had been living in Nicaragua for 15 years, most of that time in Matagalpa. As a Catholic, I felt that the opportunity to fall a Mass celebrated by the Pope was a very momentous one. It was momentous, but non in the track I expected. Now, 13 years later, following the lead of the Sandinistas, I had not wanted to rake up bad archaic memories. But since others are doing so and twisting the facts as I remember them, I felt moved to answer.
Katherine Hoyt National Co-Coordinator Nicaragua net income Education Fund Matagalpa March 16, 1983 Dear Folks-Well, I promised to draw up about the Popes visit and so I guess I must even though I would rather not even think about it much less spell out about it!
I feel that the visit to Central the States as a whole has meant a return to a pre-1967 Church: before Paul VIs encyclical Popularum Progressio--which specified the cases in which insurrection and rebellion would be justified--and the 1968 Latin American Bishops league at Medellin, Colombia, which gave the big push to liberation theology. On this new-fashioned visit John Paul II spoke in words easily understood by the Right as support for its cause: You peasants live in unjust and brutal conditions but dont be tempted to rise up in accouterments against your oppressors; and Archbishop Romero was a martyr but we must not let in his memory to be manipulated politically, etc., etc. But this Im sure you know. What youd same to know is our experience of his visit...If you want to get a spacious essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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