Posted on 03/15/2013 9:08:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
Today the Vatican released a statement in response to accusations that as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was complicit in various human-rights abuses during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” 1976-1983.
The full statement, read at a press conference by Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, is below:
“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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicworldreport.com ...
Marshmallow, is the Catholic World Report the paper that has been accused of being non-Catholic and should take the name off their paper? Or is that another one?
Just pick any side of the argument against Church doctrine which the media is against, and from that side will come an allegation: fag rights, abortion, “equal” rights etc.
And this is exactly how Ametican conservatives should respond to slanderous accusations: incredibly quickly and with very strong language in which they deny the lies, without delving into so much detail that the story gets lost, and without using meek or apologetic language that prepricely forgives or excuses the slanderers.
Thank you.
As I was reading was thinking the same thing. I hope they continue in this way.
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