The Pope and the Dirty War

It really does seem like the old men who run the Catholic church are tone deaf to almost everything, or maybe they can only focus on one problem at a time, and sex scandals are the concern of the day.

Or perhaps this institution that values tradition more than practicality assumes nobody else has a sense of history that goes back much further than the last World Cup.



The NY Times and LA Times both have stories today about Cardinal Bergoglio and the church´s relationship with the military dictatorship and its "dirty war."  I´m betting there are Argentine journalists who are not going to let this story continue to be pushed aside or buried.

From the NYT article:

“The combination of action and inaction by the church was instrumental in enabling the mass atrocities committed by the junta,” said Federico Finchelstein, an Argentine historian at the New School for Social Research in New York. “Those like Francis that remained in silence during the repression also played by default a central role,” he said. “It was this combination of endorsement and either strategic or willful indifference that created the proper conditions for the state killings.”