From a New York Times obituary today —
"The Rev. Fernando Cardenal, a son of privilege
who embraced Latin America’s poor as a revolutionary
priest and brazenly defied Pope John Paul II’s order to
quit Nicaragua’s leftist cabinet in the 1980s, died on
Saturday in Managua. He was 82."
Photo caption from the same obituary —
"Fernando Cardenal in 1990. As education minister of
Nicaragua under the Sandinistas in the 1980s, he
oversaw a sweeping campaign credited with reducing
illiteracy to 13 percent from 51 percent."
This alleged literacy improvement makes him sound like
a Protestant revolutionary.
For a Catholic view of literacy, see The Gutenberg Galaxy .
See also the post Being Interpreted (Aug. 14, 2015) —
