Illusions about Nicaragua

IF there is a more generous, friendlier, more serious priest in the country than Monsignor John Egan of Chicago, it is hard to think who he might be. Yet Monsignor Egan recently wrote such bitter words about President Reagan, and such misleading words about Nicaragua, that one wonders, if this is what it’s like in the green wood, what is it like in the dry? Monsignor Egan wrote in the National Catholic Reporter (May 18):

For the sake of efficient control, the U.S. Government must invalidate Nicaraguan experience and culture. . . . Our hopes rise as we see the Nicaraguan people saying “no” to the dead sameness demanded by President Reagan.

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Michael Novak

Michael Novak was a Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.

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IF there is a more generous, friendlier, more serious priest in the country than Monsignor John Egan of Chicago, it is hard to think who he might be. Yet Monsignor Egan recently wrote such bitter words about President Reagan, and such misleading words about Nicaragua, that one wonders, if this is what it’s like in the green wood, what is it like in the dry? Monsignor Egan wrote in the National Catholic Reporter (May 18):

For the sake of efficient control, the U.S. Government must invalidate Nicaraguan experience and culture. . . . Our hopes rise as we see the Nicaraguan people saying “no” to the dead sameness demanded by President Reagan.