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Nicaragua’s Imprisoned Bp Alvarez Echoes Cdl Pell: ‘What Sustained Me Was Prayer’, by Michael Haynes – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Nicaragua. Source: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work ....

By Michael Haynes, OnePeterFive, March 8, 2025

Michael Haynes is the Senior Vatican correspondent writing for LifeSiteNews. He also writes on Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa, and has authored works on Mariology (Mary the Motherly Co-Redemptrix), Catholic spirituality, and most recently published an apologetic work A Catechism of Errors. He regularly writes for the American TFP, and his writings have been also published by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, Catholic Family News, Gregorius Magnus, Calx Maria, while also being translated into a number of languages and reprinted widely. …

 

Michael HaynesIn a groundbreaking interview, Bishop Rolando Alvarez attested to the power of prayer which sustained him and gave him hope, during the year he spent in a Nicaraguan jail for criticizing the regime’s abuses of human rights and religious persecution.

“I always thought and believed in my freedom,” said Bishop Alvarez, speaking to EWTN last month, marking a full year after his release from Nicaragua to the Vatican in January 2024.

“I always believed in my release. When? I don’t know, I didn’t know, but I always hoped to be set free and what sustained me was prayer.”

Such words closely resemble the style of those uttered by George Cardinal Pell upon his own release from prison in Australia, after judges unanimously acquitted of the charges of sexual abuse, for which he served over 400 days in prison. …