Thursday 21 March 2013

INQUIRER.net: Priest says pope did not denounce him to Argentine junta

INQUIRER.net
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Priest says pope did not denounce him to Argentine junta
Mar 22nd 2013, 00:45

BERLIN—A Jesuit priest kidnapped and tortured during Argentina's military dictatorship said he and a fellow abductee priest were not denounced to the rightwing junta by Pope Francis.   After the new pope came under intense scrutiny for allegedly playing a role in the arrest of Francisco Jalics and the late Orlando Yorio, Germany-based Jalics issued a statement Wednesday saying: "These are now the facts.   "Orlando Yorio and I were not reported by Father Bergoglio," Jalics said, referring to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis and formerly the head of the Jesuit order in Argentina.   The first pope to hail from Latin America has been criticized b...

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