Faith & Joy: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Priest (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781626981423)

Fernando Cardenal, a Nicaraguan Jesuit priest, oversaw a national literacy campaign and served as minister of education in the revolutionary Sandinista government. The Sandinista revolution was unusual for the wide participation of Christians, including priests, in the struggle. However, the role of priests in the revolutionary government (including Ernesto Cardenal, Fernando's brother, a famous poet), was a source of bitter controversy with the Vatican. When he declined to resign his government post (judging that it would be "a grave sin if I were to abandon my priestly option for the poor"), Cardenal was suspended from the priesthood and expelled from the Society of Jesus. In later years, following the Sandinista era, he was readmitted - the first case of a Jesuit expelled and readmitted in the history of the Society.

Author: Fernando Cardenal
ISBN-10: 1626981426
ISBN-13: 9781626981423
Publisher: Orbis Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d