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Since Francis became pope, Gonzalo Mosca [113] and José Caravias [114] have related accounts to journalists of how Bergoglio helped them flee the Argentine dictatorship. Oliveira described the future pope as "anguished" and "very critical of the dictatorship" during the Dirty War. [115]
Memorial at the former detention center of Quinta de Mendez []. The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for its period of state terrorism [12] [10] [13] in Argentina [14] [15] from 1974 to 1983.
Plaque in memory of the Pallottine Fathers in the Church of St. Sylvester in Rome. Forensic photo of the bodies of the Pallottine Fathers.. The San Patricio Church massacre was the mass murder of three priests and two seminarians of the Pallottine order on July 4, 1976, during the Dirty War, at St. Patrick's Church, located in the Belgrano neighborhood of the Buenos Aires, Argentina.
See Dirty War#Participation of Catholic Church members. In 1976, a human rights lawyer accused Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, of conspiring with the junta to kidnap two Jesuit priests. Despite no hard evidence linking him to the crime, Cardinal Bergoglio, who headed the Society of Jesus in Argentina, had conflicts with priests ...
Esther Ballestrino de Careaga (20 January 1918 – disappeared 17 or 18 December 1977) was a Paraguayan biochemist and political activist. She is most notable for her connection to the future Pope Francis and her forced disappearance (abduction and murder) in Argentina by the military dictatorship of the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983).
Rubin and Ambrogetti met with him monthly for a year and half. Those meetings were the only occasions when Bergoglio discussed his life during Argentina's Dirty War. [1] The book was published in 2010. It was reprinted in 2013, an updated reflection of the increased interest on Bergoglio after his election as Pope. [1] [2]
Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti (17 July 1923 – 4 August 1976) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues. Angelelli commitment to the "Church of the Poor" offered a model for the future Pope Francis. His cause of sainthood opened in 2015.
Paul Vallely's biography Pope Francis - Untying the Knots [15] examined the allegations made against Pope Francis when he was Fr Jorge Mario Bergoglio, leader of the Jesuits in Argentina, during the "Dirty War" conducted by the Argentine military dictatorship in the 1970s and '80s. Vallely concluded that Bergoglio did not actively betray two ...