It has been one year since Ernesto Cardenal was readmitted to the priesthood and celebrated Mass again after 35 years.
Yesterday, at 95 years old, he died in Nicaragua.
His homeland considers him one of its best writers and poets, but Cardenal was also a controversial figure.
The priest was Minister of Culture during the Sandinista government. His political militancy and his defense of liberation theology made John Paul II impose a sanction on him. Thus, he publicly confronted him in 1983, while in Nicaragua. The Vatican suspended Cardenal a divinis in 1984, since he wouldn't leave his political office.
Pope Francis lifted the sanction last year at the old priest's request to celebrate Mass again.
