Ortega calls the Catholic Church a "perfect dictatorship" and supports "a coup" in Nicaragua

MADRID, 29 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has charged harshly against the Catholic Church, which he has branded as a "perfect dictatorship" and for "using" its bishops to "give a coup" in the Central American country.

"A coup d'état, an institution like the Catholic Church, using its bishops here in Nicaragua to carry out a coup d'état," he said. "Since when are priests ready to stage a coup? Since when do they have the authority to speak of democracy?" She asked herself.

Thus, he has questioned "who elects" priests, bishops, cardinals and even the Pope. "If they are going to be democratic, let them begin to choose with the Catholic vote," he said, before adding that the Church "is a dictatorship, a perfect dictatorship, a perfect tyranny."

Ortega has therefore transferred to Pope Francis "with all due respect" that he "is Catholic" but that "he does not feel represented." "Because of everything we know about that terrible history, but also because of the fact that we hear them talk about democracy and they don't practice democracy," he assessed, before arguing that "it would be a revolution if the Pope were elected by the Catholic people of the world ".

Along these lines, he stressed that "the habit does not make the monk" and added that religious "have committed thousands of crimes in the world." "Thousands of crimes that have been reported since the inquisition, where they burned and murdered those who did not think like them," he pointed out.

"The Holy Catholic Church burning, killing, incinerating, persecuting, organizing crusades to assassinate those who did not share their creed. Blessing and giving a holy ordinance when the conquerors invaded our lands," said the president, according to the chain of Nicaraguan television Telenica Channel 8.

For this reason, he has spoken of "a church that was corrupted, that denigrated Christ, that stained Christ" and has denounced that in 2018 in the country "some bishops and some priests, taking advantage of their investiture, instead of assuming an attitude Christian, they assumed a terrorist attitude".

"That priest is recorded there, that when they burn a comrade there in Masaya, there is the film where he says (...) 'go throw him into a toilet,'" he stated, while noting that "some bishops They called for his assassination. "That is to say, a gang of murderers undercover with the Catholic Church", he has settled.