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Survivors reflect on Pope Francis’ role in Argentina’s bloody ‘dirty war’
Nobody in early 1976 was aware of the scale of the killing programme that Argentina’s military were secretly starting to execute. “At the beginning, we saw the military as saviours who had come to deliver us from the violence of the ultra-right death squads and far left terrorists that had desolated…
Book written by Francis reveals radical pope in the making
Book written as a cardinal shows a man with a profound social conscience and professing a genuine belief in interfaith dialogue In his own words, Pope Francis comes over as a clever, thoughtful and skilful mixture of social conservative and radical progressive who preaches zero tolerance of pederast priests but…
Nun: Pope Francis was a ‘little devil’ in school
Decades before he became Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio was a “little devil” who jumped up and down the stairs of his century-old Buenos Aires school, the establishment’s mother superior told AFP. The Argentine cardinal memorized his multiplication tables aloud as he skipped steps at the De la Misericordia school, where…
Questions remain over Pope Francis’ role during Argentina’s dictatorship
Jorge Bergoglio was head of the Jesuit order in the 1970s when the church backed military government and called for patriotism Despite the joyful celebrations outside the Municipal Cathedral in Buenos Aires yesterday, the news of Latin America’s first pope was clouded by lingering concerns about the role of the…
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