By Robert W. Shaffern, The Catholic Thing - To their eternal shame, prominent figures in the Nicaraguan Catholic Church contributed in no small measure to (Sandinista President Daniel Ortega's) catastrophe, the seeds of which have been germinating since the conclusion in 1979 of the bloody and brutal civil war that had plagued that country for a decade. In that year, the Bolshevik Sandinistas drove the last of the Somoza dynasty of dictators from the country. Many Catholic clergy supported the Sandinistas, especially members of the Jesuit order. ...