Nicaraguan priest Miguel d’Escoto taking a top U.N. post
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Father Miguel d’Escoto stopped saying Mass 23 years ago when the Vatican suspended his priestly functions for refusing to quit Nicaragua’s revolutionary government.
But he never stopped preaching, reports Richard Boudreaux.
From university lecterns, slum soup kitchens and diplomatic forums, he has voiced moral wrath over the plight of the poor and the might of wealthy nations, particularly the United States. Today he is being promoted to a far bigger pulpit: the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly.
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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City