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Pope Francis has lifted the 29-year suspension of a priest who refused to give up his role in Nicaragua’s former Sandanista government.
Maryknoll priest Fr Miguel D’Escoto Brockman, 81, had formally requested permission to resume priestly duties and to celebrate Mass before he died.
Nicaraugua’s foreign minister from 1979 to 1990, he is to be accompanied by the Maryknoll superior general while being re-integrated into priestly ministry.
Although barred from priestly ministry, Fr D’Escoto remained a member of his Maryknoll congregation.
Despite repeated entreaties by the Vatican and religious orders, he and two other clerics persisted as ministers in the Sandanista government and received suspensions as priests in 1985.
The Code of Canon Law prohibits priests from holding partisan political offices.
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