Stamping Out Error

Bespectacled Sandinista bumbler Daniel Ortega has requested forgiveness from the Catholic Church for his government's "errors." No word on whether he asked blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angels and saints, and you, his brothers and sisters, to pray for him, but Papal Nuncio Cesar Garcia Magan says the sincerity of Ortega, whose party also hopes Nicaragua's voters will be more forgiving in 2006 than they have been in the past, should be presumed.