EDITORIAL: Although the Vatican has offered a muted response, Pope Francis must do more to condemn human-rights abuses in Nicaragua before the Ortega regime exploits papal silence to justify its immoral actions.
The Editors, EWTN News,
When should a global religious authority make its voice heard to defend the least among us? And when is silence, grounded in prayer, the more prudent course?
The Vatican has struggled with such questions throughout its diplomatic history.
During the past century, critics challenged Pope Pius XII’s nuanced response to Adolf Hitler’s aim of exterminating European Jewry. …