Vatican Rejects Argentine Accusations Against Pope Francis

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12. p.s. an observation or two about Sam Ferguson's TNR article

that is the subject of Fisher's Washington Post piece:

1. Apparently the key testimony alleging that Bergoglio conspired with the Argentinian government in arranging for Yorio and Jalics' arrest comes from a personal interview with Yorio conducted by "journalist Horacio Verbitsky," the Democracy Now expert, but not published until six years later, in 2005, at which point (a) Yorio was six years dead, having died shorty after his interview with Verbitsky, and (b) Bergoglio's name was in play as a replacement to John Paul II. Needless to say, the job went instead to Joseph Ratzinger:

In a 1999 interview, conducted shortly before he died, Yorio said that he faulted Bergoglio for his kidnapping. Bergoglio denied complicity. After the interview was published in a book in 2005, a local human rights lawyer filed a criminal complaint against Bergoglio over the incident. The courts, however, have not taken any steps to indict Bergoglio, according to the lawyer, Marcelo Parrilli. But the interview appeared just as Bergoglio was being mentioned as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112656/pope-francis-and-argentinas-dirty-war-what-he-knew#

Additionally, Yorio's recollections, confided only to Verbitsky, are of events that took place while he was in prison, and the other priest, who is still alive, has made no such statement against Bergogolio. There's more but it's late . . .