Posted on 03/21/2013 4:47:34 AM PDT by bronxville
Pope Francis did not denounce me to Argentinian junta, says priest
Francisco Jalics, who was imprisoned for five months in the 1970s, says he and the new pope reconciled in 2000"
Jonathan Watts
The Guardian, Wednesday 20 March 2013
..."I myself was once inclined to believe that we were the victims of a denunciation," Jalics said. "[But] at the end of the 90s, after numerous conversations, it became clear to me that this suspicion was unfounded. It is therefore wrong to assert that our capture took place at the initiative of Father Bergoglio."...
...The latest comments follow a less categorical statement that he made last week soon after the pope was chosen. In that earlier comment, he said he and Bergoglio had reconciled and "hugged solemnly" in 2000. But he also noted that he "could not comment on the role played by Father Bergoglio in these events".
...Argentinian critics of the pope have continued to accuse him of wrongdoing, based on documents and old testimonies of Yorio, who died several years ago. Jalics' failure to deny this added to their suspicions.
But in the latest statement, Jalics said "Some commentaries imply the opposite of what I meant."
By contrast, his words on Wednesday were unequivocal: "The fact is: Orlando Yorio and I were not denounced by Father Bergoglio."
continued: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/21/pope-francis-argentinian-junta-priest
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In any case, the Argentinian government didn't need outside help to target folks for the air drops ~ afterwhich political life in that hapless country became less hectic.
The priest in this story didn't get airdropped either.
That won’t mean anything to the left....they will continue to SMEAR him because he is a GOOD man.
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He stated it loud and clear which will stop any further “reports”. Agree, a lot of damage has already being done but we now have this to refute any future lies. TG, one of them was still alive.
I just noticed this pope is all over youtube as being the anti-Christ and mostly by socalled religious christians spurred by the book - Petrus Romanus.
ahhh, the Protestants are at it again. For the LIFE of me, I’ll never understand how the believe that we aren’t Christians!!! It’s Ridiculously absurd.
Sad, but true. Especially as they shake their Bibles (from the Catholic Church) in our faces.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Human Rights Nobel prize winner) and Amnesty International (you know who they are; and BTW, neither are spokesmen/apologists for the Catholic Church, far from it) --- both state that Fr. Bergoglio had "no ties" with the military junta/dictatoship.
Not that it matters to the Enemedia. If he HAD ties, he'd be a damned rightist; if he opposed them, he'd be a damned leftist; and if he tried to save lives and bring about reconciliation, he'd be wrong for that, too.
Q.E.D.
We can also know that people who repeat this accusation are liars.
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