The Revolution Destroys Nicaragua’s Jesuit University
By CHRISTOPHER MANION On May 17, 1981, Fr. Ted Hesburgh invited President Ronald Reagan to deliver the Commencement Address at Notre Dame University, my alma mater.“The years ahead are great ones for this country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization,” the President told us. “The West won’t contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. It won’t bother to dismiss or denounce it, it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.”Outside, thousands of demonstrators disagreed. They had been permitted to camp out on campus for days.How could a Catholic school welcome a president who opposed the Sandinista Communists, they asked? Why, Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Junta includes two…Continue Reading