I don't like how little information there is. It's all basically people's words, other than the incident itself. Maybe he did save a whole bunch of people. But where are they?

I'm not necessarily accusing them of wrong doing. The incident was 30 years ago. I'm just not happy with the claims and counterclaims presented within. It's all hearsay, no evidence.

Then where is their evidence? Your defence of the Post is actually painting them in a worse light. Counterproductive. I'm a scientist, not some follower bitch. Give me proof or fuck off.

well that escalated

Pope Francis, as he is now called, was a senior official in the Catholic Church in Argentina during the “Dirty War” in the 1970s, when the Argentine military brutally killed between 25,000 and 30,000 people.

According to 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.”
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Pope Francis and Argentina’s Dirty War
March 13, 2013 by Rebeldes 8 Comments

Recently, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, become the 266th pope of the Catholic Church. Bergoglio’s past is one that raises serious questions about the Church’s new leader and whether the move is yet another example of the Church trying to overlook its history. Besides Bergoglio’s belief that “a government-supported law to legalize marriage and adoption by same-sex couples as ‘a war against God,’” many Argentines and students of Latin American history have already brought up Bergoglio’s role during Argentina’s military dictatorship of the late 70s and early 80s, also known as The Dirty War.

Here is what The New York Times reported today about this part of Bergoglio’s life:

He has been less energetic, however, in urging the Argentine church to examine its own behavior during the 1970s, when the country was consumed by a conflict between right and left. In what became known as the Dirty War, as many as 30,000 people were disappeared, tortured or killed by a military dictatorship that seized power in March 1976.

In a long interview with an Argentine newspaper in 2010, Cardinal Bergoglio defended his behavior during the dictatorship. He said that he had helped hide people being sought for arrest or disappearance by the military because of their political views, had helped others leave Argentina and had lobbied the country’s military rulers directly for the release and protection of others.

One archival photo has been posted in the last few hours, showing Bergoglio giving communion to Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s military dictator from 1976 to 1981, as well as other photos of Videla with Argentine priests and cardinals. These photos are coming from people who want the truth to be known about Argentina.

In this first photo, a priest many believe to be Bergoglio is giving communion to Videla. The Global Post has more about this picture here, but later found not to be (UPDATE: A report out of Argentina says that this photo is not Bergoglio.) A photo shows an unidentified Argentine priest with Videla. It is also making the online rounds.

A 2011 piece by Hugh O’Shaughnessy called “The sins of the Argentinian church” presents a summary of the issues surrounding Bergoglio:

To the judicious and fair-minded outsider it has been clear for years that the upper reaches of the Argentinian church contained many “lost sheep in the wilderness”, men who had communed and supported the unspeakably brutal western-supported military dictatorship that seized power in that country in 1976 and battened on it for years. Not only did the generals slaughter thousands unjustly, often dropping them out of aeroplanes over the River Plate and selling off their orphan children to the highest bidder, they also murdered at least two bishops and many priests. Yet even the execution of other men of the cloth did nothing to shake the support of senior clerics, including representatives of the Holy See, for the criminality of their leader General Jorge Rafael Videla and his minions, in his dictatorship.

I like Brian and dont like to see it when he unfairly gets hosed , due to someone else's mistake.