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Miguel d'Escoto is both a Maryknoll priest and Foreign Minister in the new radical, reformist government of Nicaragua. Pope John Paul II has made it bluntly clear that he wants all priests to get out of politics. So have the bishops of Nicaragua. But D'Escoto and other colleagues refuse, saying that they must first serve God by serving the people and the revolution. D'Escoto's position has stirred concern-and rage-about the Maryknoll order across Latin America...
...disappeared in El Salvador, leaving behind a letter that accused the Reagan Administration of providing military aid to a "repressive dictatorship at war with its own people." Maryknoll Superior General James Noonan rushed from the society's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y., to El Salvador and indicated that the priest was the victim of foul play. After all, two Maryknoll nuns and two other missionaries had been murdered in December (six soldiers are currently under provisional arrest for the crime). But, to the embarrassment of Noonan and the whole Maryknoll order, Bourgeois soon surfaced; he had simply gone...
Most Maryknoll priests and nuns still work alongside peasants in the fields, teach the basics of nutrition and child care, build schools and houses, dispense medical care or develop cottage industries and cooperative farms. But starting with a 1966 policy statement, the society also began emphasizing the need for change in social systems and the rallying of oppressed groups to demand their civil and economic rights. One priest explains the shift: "The church is no longer only involved in giving the campesinos plows and tools, but in making them conscious of their situation...
...radical image dates from 1968 when a group of Maryknoll priests and nuns sided with leftist guerrillas who were hoping to bring down the government of Guatemala. Two of them then got married and, as Thomas and Marjorie Melville, wrote a book called Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership. The incident is still well remembered in Central America. Rightly or wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which...
Last year Pope John Paul II let it be known that he did not want Roman Catholic priests to play active roles in politics. As a result, U.S. Congressman Robert Drinan, a Jesuit priest, had to forgo a run for a sixth term. But in Nicaragua, ever since the revolutionary Sandinista regime took office in 1979, four priests have held high government posts, and a dozen others serve as key advisers. The four highly placed priests are Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto, Social Welfare Minister Edgard Parrales, Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, and Fernando Cardenal, director of the Young Sandinistas...