>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.
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