What is Ernesto Cardenal?
{{Infobox person | name = Ernesto Cardenal | image = Ernesto Cardenal a la Chascona 2.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Ernesto Cardenal Martínez | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|01|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Granada, Nicaragua]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|03|01|1925|01|20|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Managua]], [[Nicaragua]] | nationality = [[Nicaragua]]n | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist | Poet | [[liberation theology|liberation theologian]]}} | years_active = 1954–2020 | known_for = Nicaraguan cultural figure | notable_works = ''[[The Gospel in Solentiname]]'' }} '''Ernesto Cardenal Martínez''' (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nicaraguainvestiga.com/muere-el-poeta-ernesto-cardenal/ |title=Muere el poeta Ernesto Cardenal &#124; Nicaragua Investiga |access-date=2020-03-02 |archive-date=2020-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301213827/https://www.nicaraguainvestiga.com/muere-el-poeta-ernesto-cardenal/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>) was a [[Nicaragua]]n [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] [[priest]], poet, and politician. He was a [[liberation theology|liberation theologian]]. He was the founder of the [[primitivism (art)|primitivist]] art community in the [[Solentiname Islands]]. His brother was [[Fernando Cardenal]]. Cardenal was a member of the [[Nicaragua]]n [[Sandinista]]s, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. He was banned from administering the sacraments in 1984 by [[Pope John Paul II]], but it was restored by [[Pope Francis]] in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/02/16/actualidad/1550357606_032304.html|newspaper=[[El País]]|author=Pablo Ordaz|title=Roma se reconcilia con Cardenal|date=17 February 2019}}</ref> On 1 March 2020, Cardenal died of problems caused by [[heart disease|heart]] and [[kidney disease]], aged 95.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/americas/ernesto-cardenal-dead.html|title=Ernesto Cardenal,