Nicaraguan Government Defies Church on Celebration of Religious Festival

Crux ^ | 8/17/20 | Ines San Martin

[marshmallow]

ROSARIO, Argentina – As Nicaragua celebrated the “small” version of its famous Marian festival La Gritería on Saturday, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the government of President Daniel Ortega clashed over the global pandemic: The bishops acknowledge it, the president doesn’t.

Every August 15, when the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Assumption of Mary, Nicaragua’s second largest city Leon celebrates La Gritería Chiquita – the small shouting.

In the small Gritería, people start shouting the question, Qué causa tanta alegría? (What causes so much happiness?), and others respond with La Asunción de María! (Mary’s Assumption.)

[The “small shouting” is related to the larger and older national “shouting” that takes place on Dec. 7, when across the country at 6pm, people start shouting the question: Qué causa tanta alegría? (What causes so much happiness?), and others respond with La Concepción de María (Mary’s Conception).]

La Gritería Chiquita dates back to 1947, when according to popular piety, the Mother of God put an end to a devastating eruption of the Cerro Negro volcano, one of the most active in Central America.

In an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus, Bishop Socrates Rene Sandigo of Leon, decided that the celebration would be a small, private event in the local cathedral, without the presence of the faithful, who were instead invited to set up small altars in honor to the Virgin and pray at home.

Due to the pandemic, the bishop gave the traditional shout of the Gritería from the altar of the cathedral instead of from the door. He doubled down on calling it a “Gritería of penitence,” urging people to pray on “this very special day, in a very special circumstance.”

Yet the Ortega government urged its supporters in Leon – a stronghold of the.......

[dfwgator]

Naturally, Bergoglio will be on Ortega’s side.

[livius]

I don’t think so. The Marxist Ortega is much more Catholic than Bergoglio.

[PGR88]

Yet the Ortega government urged its supporters in Leon – a stronghold of the Sandinista revolutionary movement – to defy the bishop and go out to the streets, celebrate the Virgin Mary, and set up altars outside their homes, to maintain the usual festival-like feel of the celebration.

So the Marxist Sandinista is urging Catholics to celebrate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary as boisterously as possible?? Do I have that right?

I think the only atheist Marxists remaining on this earth are in the North America.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Nicaragua and its Sandinista Marxist “government” (aka dictatorship) is another Democrat Party success story dating back to its betrayal of that country to the reds I n 1979 and protecting them ever since.

Key US Senator traitors who aided the Sandinistas included Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn), John Kerry (D-Mass), and communist Sen. Tom “Faket Vietnam Veteran) Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). Also Sen. Ted Kennedy worked in the background to aid the communists, Castro Cubans (since 1974 - the fake “Congressional Conference on Cuba” which I covered as a reporter and exposed in Human Events weekly for its Communist Party USA/supporters dominance. (Mike Meyerson, CPUSA leader; Fund for New Priorities CP supporters/funders, etc.

See : S. Steven Powell, “Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”, Green Hill, 1987 for good coverage of IPS, CPUSA, and related Marxists supporters of communism in Latin America.