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That's about the only good thing about him. Otherwise he's just another dyed in the wool right wing theologian with a common touch who turned his eyes away from Argentina's Dirty War that led to as many as 30,000 people abducted, tortured, or killed by the military dictatorships of Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola, and Leopoldo Galtieri.
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Haha nice, football has taken the hearts from anyone now ;)
I am sick of people that suddenly have become expert on Argentina's Dirty War...have you studied Argentine History? Have you any idea of who were Archbishops at that time? No you don't, you simply talk because you can, you know nothing of what happened then..you have now idea that all the allegations involving Pope Francis with Argentina's dirty war come from the Kirchners and people who are close to them, that it is not surprising because if you knew anything about Argentina you would know that Archbishop Bergoglio was an enemy of the Kirchner...
Alivia Oliveira was a judge untill the regim took the power and removed her from her position, to then chase after her. Because of that she has to hide and It was Bergolgio the one who made the arrangements for her to be able to see her son who was a student in the University of El Salvador, she met her son there without being noticed thanks to Bergoglio. Oliveira was a part of the group that judge those who were gulty of the dirty war, she said Bergoglio has nothing to do with that.
Bergoglio didn't had much power at the times of the dirty war, considering that some Archbishops begged for mercy and were not listened, it is easy to know that a mere priest could not do anything. He told the priests of his congregation to stop going to meetings with activists, that it was to dangerous, but they did not listen. The two jesuit priests that were tortured were within a group of activist in Rivadavia. Bergoglio made a priest that was to meet with Videla called in sick so he could go in his place, in that meeting Bergoglio begged for mercy. Of all of the members of the Rivadavia activists only the jesuit priests survived.
Bergoglio helped many people leave the country, he even gave his documents of identity to one of them so he could get out of Argentina.
There isn't a single proof to think that Bergoglio helped the dictators, he didn't have enough power back then.
The church did play an important role in the Dirty war, many Archbishops helped the dictators, but Bergoglio did as much as he could, even Perez Ezquivel (Nobel Prize of the Peace) has stated that the accusations against Bergoglio are false.
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Thanks for following the blog and the comment. But I'm merely stating what many of his countrymen are saying. There is an interview with Rafael Videla in which he states he kept Argentina's Catholic Church informed about the disappearances of political opponents and they in turn advised him on how to manage the policy. The Catholic Church did help families locate the deseparecidos but only on the condition they would not retaliate against the military junta. As for Bergoglio's personal involvement, an Argentinian journalist, Horacio Verbitsky, investigated the allegations that the young Bergoglio, turned in two priests involved in social justice after the Peron govt fell, to the military who tortured them for subversive activities. They left the country, one went to Rome and the other to Germany. Bergoglio maintains his innocence but there are records that Verbitsky went through in the foreign ministry that prove otherwise. I'm not saying he has not worked for the poor or does not believe in social justice. But he's not a liberation theologist like many in SA who actually work with the poor and see their upliftment as their principle mission, indeed Christ's mission. That left and right split in the Church mirrors the political and social schism playing out in Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, at that time.
Given his lifetime of campaigning for social justice and unlike almost everyone who calls themselves "leftist", his actually spending his life helping the poor, I find it ridiculous you would call him a "right wing theologian" or say that his being a football fan is the only good thing about him.
Also, the dictatorship statement is pretty illogical. Should we blame the deaths on Indira Gandhi's Emergency on you because you (if you were alive) lived in the country? The record shows that he appealed for the lives of several people and hid enemies of the regime who sought sanctuary but otherwise correctly stayed out of politics (i.e., opposed political interference by the clergy). Hardly the same thing as supporting the Videla dictatorship.
Big fan of the blog otherwise but you should definitely get your facts straight.
**Please don't use quotes about gay marriage, etc to show his "right wing" tendencies since basically everyone in the world believed that was ridiculous till 15 years ago.