When everyone is done celebrating the new pope's humility and modest living style, we are still going to have to come back to his relationship with the military dictatorship in the 1970's and 1980's.
We know he has had no trouble criticizing a democratically-elected government. He has been aggravatingly vocal in his criticism of Argentina's recognition of same-sex marriage (Yes, America, that's right. Argentina.) and against the rights of gay couples to adopt children. The military dictatorship made a point of declaring themselves a Catholic government, and the Catholic church never, in Argentina nor anywhere else, publicly disavowed their actions.
In recent years, Bergoglio has tempered his criticism of the dictatorship with one of those popular false equivalencies are all the rage these days in American politics: the other side did some bad things too.
Interesting that the oath of secrecy taken by all the Cardinals before the conclave was broken almost immediately, and there were instant reports about the process and the votes etc.
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