The Vatican has firmly denied these claims and there have since been
many reports of the "quiet diplomacy" used by Pope Francis, who was then
named Jorge Mario Bergoglio and head of the Jesuit order in Argentina. There
was no official word on the content of the talks between Francis and
Jalics, who was born in Hungary and now lives in a German monastery. Francis
has said he experienced "a period of great internal crisis" at the time
of the junta and admitted to making mistakes in his leadership. A
recent book by an Italian journalist, however, said he took in many
leftist students at risk of being jailed by the dictatorship and advised
hiThe two young Jesuits who were preaching in the slums were taken in March 1976 to the notorious Naval School of Mechanics, a torture centre run by the junta. They were freed after five months.
Father Franz Jalics now lives in a monastery in Germany. Following controversy after the Pope's election in March, Jalics released a statement saying: "Yorio and I were not reported by Father Bergoglio". "I myself formerly tended to believe that we were reported. At the end of the 1990s however it became clear to me after numerous conversations that this assumption was baseless," Jalics said.
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Once again, this is such a "non story". The priests in question were jailed for 5 months...then released (as opposed to the priests, nuns and religious who have been tortured and murdered/martyred around the world). The "accusations" that Pope Francis had anything to do with their imprisonment (once again...really?) are all based on speculations and rants; mostly by the sister of one of the priests. As I stated previously, if this is the best the press can do, then this should be an easy papacy...provided the Holy Father himself doesn't create his own brand of havoc (or should I say "lio").
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