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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Pope in Bed With Old Dictators of Argentina
The generals were tried and convicted of murder for their crimes.
The new Pope? Wasn't, but it looks very much like he should have been.
From a column I ran into from 2011 in the Guardian:
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 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.
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But happily Their Eminences have just been given another chance to express contrition. Next month the convicted murderer Videla will be arraigned for his part in the killing of Enrique Angelelli, bishop of the Andean diocese of La Rioja and a supporter of the cause of poorer Argentines. He was run off the highway by a hit squad of the Videla régime and killed on 4th August 1976 shortly after Videla's putsch.
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But happily Their Eminences have just been given another chance to express contrition. Next month the convicted murderer Videla will be arraigned for his part in the killing of Enrique Angelelli, bishop of the Andean diocese of La Rioja and a supporter of the cause of poorer Argentines. He was run off the highway by a hit squad of the Videla régime and killed on 4th August 1976 shortly after Videla's putsch.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/04/argenitina-videla-bergoglio-repentance
The cynicism behind this pick is beyond amazing. If the above is true, the man should be in jail.
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New Pope in Bed With Old Dictators of Argentina (Original Post)
Benton D Struckcheon
Mar 2013
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(36 posts)1. Just more of the same from this criminal "church"
Just like Pius XII during the Holocaust.
MH1
(17,573 posts)2. Hopefully we'll hear more about this.
Here is a new Reuters story that mentions Verbitsky's book. It characterizes the story rather differently, though.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/pope-succession-bergoglio-idUSL1N0C46BA20130313
I guess I'll have to read the book to know what it really says.