[Steely Tom]

Was the Pope involved in the dirty war in some way? Is he a war criminal?

I gather from what I read of the MSM that the Papal Curia actually elected a war criminal to the Papacy. Can this really be true?

[Wordkraft]

I don’t think we can expect anything from the media other than slurs.

[pbear8]

Are you srsly expecting truth from the MSM?

[Servant of the Cross]

War criminal? Srsly?!

Vatican Responds to Accusations About Cardinal Bergoglio and the "Dirty War"

“The campaign against Bergoglio is well-known and dates back to many years ago. It has been carried out by a publication specializing in sometimes slanderous and defamatory campaigns. The anticlerical cast of this campaign and of other accusations against Bergoglio is well-known and obvious.”

“The charges refer to the time before Bergoglio became bishop [of Buenos Aires], when he was Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in Argentina and accuse him of not having protected two priests who were kidnapped.”

Argentine priest kidnapped in Dirty War reconciled w/ Pope Francis (Don't blame Pope for Pinochet)

[Mrs. Don-o]

Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the Argentine who won the Nobel peace prize for his human rights advocacy in the early 1980?s (while the military was still in power) told the BBC´s Spanish language service, "I know that many bishops asked the military junta to free prisoners and priests and their requests were not granted."

Perez Esquivel added that many members of the church "quietly did what they could to free many prisoners." He concluded, "Bergoglio had no ties to the dictatorship."

To the mud-slingers´ chagrin, none of their mud seems to be sticking.