>From Hugh O'Shaughnessy, The Guardian, January 2011
> The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently > set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, > in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentine navy with > the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of > Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human > Rights <http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/human-rights> Commission the > dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing > less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River > Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances > Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the > successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first > pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as > an accessory to murder and false imprisonment. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/04/argenitina-videla-bergoglio-repentance#start-of-comments On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > from SLATE: > > Another measure of Bergoglio's seriousness as a candidate was the > negative campaigning that swirled around him eight years ago. Three days > before the 2005 conclave, a human rights lawyer in Argentina filed a > complaint charging Bergoglio with complicity in the 1976 kidnapping of two > liberal Jesuit priests under the country's military regime, a charge > Bergoglio flatly denied. < > > BTW, he's a Jesuit himself. > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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