In an exclusive interview, the first on TV, Mons. Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa and Apostolic Administrator of Estelí (Nicaragua), shared with Ewtn news his experience one year after his release and arrival in Rome.
We share 12 powerful prelate phrases in the dialogue with Paola Arriaza Flynn, correspondent in Rome by ACI Press and Ewtn News.
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1. “I am not exiled, I am released and in the diaspora.”
2. “In Rome I have been getting the inner peace that I needed so much.”
3. “From my childhood I played to be a priest.”
4. “The Holy Father wants to remain ordinary by Matagalpa and Apostolic Administrator of Estelí even being in the diaspora.”
5. “I suffered that experience for my faith in a holy, Catholic and apostolic.”
6. “I always believed in my release and what sustained me was prayer.”
7. “A year later, I can say that I am at 90% recovered.”
8. “Even in the moments when hope becomes darkness, we have to firmly believe that God is acting in history.”
9. “I am a man of hope and my people is a people of hope”
10. “I dispatched tasty because I talked everything I had to talk and the Pope told me something that I cannot say.”
11. “With all the love that I have to the saint (John Paul II) and of which I am really very devout, because I opted to be ordered by my bishop in my archdiocese of Managua, which is the diocese of origin (…) , with my people, with my people and among mine. ”
12. “I have always had this attachment for the cultural, for ours, for the Nicaraguan, for what I am and for the origin of where I come, that one should not forget it.”
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