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never publicly supported a child-killer, even as a 'lesser evil.'<div><br></div><div>--CGE</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 13, 2013, at 6:05 PM, "Brussel, Morton K" <<a href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">brussel@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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From an article in the NYT: (with my italics)
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1.5em; ">A</span>s Archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998, and a Cardinal since 2001, he frequently tangled with Argentina’s governments over social issues. In 2010, for example, he castigated a government-supported
law to legalize marriage and adoption by same-sex couples as “a war against God.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; ">
<i>He has been less energetic, however, in urging the Argentine church to examine its own behavior during the 1970s, when the country was consumed by a conflict between right and left that became known as the Dirty War, during which as many as 30,000 people
were disappeared, tortured or killed by a military dictatorship that seized power in March 1976.</i></p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="font-style: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; ">
In a long interview with an Argentine newspaper in 2010, then-Archbishop Bergoglio defended his behavior during the dictatorship. He said that he had helped hide people being sought for arrest or disappearance by the military because of their political views,
had helped others leave Argentina and had lobbied the country’s military rulers directly for the release and protection of others."</p>
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<div>It would be interesting to know the validity of this last claim. </div>
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<div>These stories were circulated before the 2005 election, where Bergoglio came second to Ratzinger. If they could be substantiated, it seems his enemies would have used them in the run-up to the conclave.
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On Mar 13, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Paul Mueth <<a href="mailto:paulmueth@yahoo.com">paulmueth@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war'<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">HORACIO VERBITSKY 27 July 2005<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Horacio Verbitsky is a leading Argentinean investigative journalist. He was given an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2001. Among his books is The Silence: from Paulo VI to Bergoglio, the secret
links between the Church and the Navy Mechanics School (2005) and The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior (New Press, 2005).<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Argentina between 1976 and 1983 was wracked by a “dirty war” in which successive military regimes hunted down, tortured and “disappeared” tens of thousands of citizens. The process had begun when Argentina’s already febrile politics
started to split open in the mid-1970s. The military seized power in a coup from Isabelita Peron’s government, in the wake of an armed insurgency by Montoneros guerrillas.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">The dictatorship that followed consigned thousands of Argentineans into military detention. Most were tortured; a few were released, many were eventually murdered. These “disappeared” numbered in all around 30,000.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">From: C. G. Estabrook <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">To: Paul Mueth <<a href="mailto:paulmueth@yahoo.com">paulmueth@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Cc: "<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a> List" <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>; sf-core <<a href="mailto:sf-core@yahoogroups.com">sf-core@yahoogroups.com</a>>;
ocCUpy <<a href="mailto:occupyCU@lists.chambana.net">occupyCU@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Sent: Wed, March 13, 2013 4:12:18 PM<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [sf-core] New bishop of Rome<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Pope Ratzinger's response to liberation theology was complex - as those who read the documents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when he was head of it can see. The press has preferred a simpler narrative.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">And those who read what he actually wrote as bishop of Rome will find a critique of neoliberalism and a call for the redistribution of wealth, well to the left of any mainstream US (and EU) politician.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">E.g., from Caritas in Veritate, his major social encyclical (2009): - "The global market has stimulated first and foremost, on the part of rich countries, a search for areas in which to outsource production at low cost with a view to
reducing the prices of many goods, increasing purchasing power and thus accelerating the rate of development in terms of greater availability of consumer goods for the domestic market. Consequently, the market has prompted new forms of competition between
States as they seek to attract foreign businesses to set up production centres, by means of a variety of instruments, including favourable fiscal regimes and deregulation of the labour market. These processes have led to a downsizing of social security systems
as the price to be paid for seeking greater competitive advantage in the global market, with consequent grave danger for the rights of workers, for fundamental human rights and for the solidarity associated with the traditional forms of the social State."
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<blockquote type="cite">Chomsky has written frequesntly of the US "war against the church," notably "... the murder of the Jesuit intellectuals [in November 1989]. There has been much debate about who deserves credit for the fall of the Berlin wall, but there
is none about the responsibility for the brutal demolition of the attempt to revive the church of the Gospels [i.e., liberation theology]. Washington's School of the Americas, famous for its training of Latin American killers, proudly announced as one of its
'talking points' that liberation theology was 'defeated with the assistance of the US army' -- given a helping hand, to be sure by the Vatican, using the gentler means of expulsion and suppression" <<a href="http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm">http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100323.htm</a>>.
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<blockquote type="cite">Yea, RATzinger was good on discourse as well, whilst repressing liberation theologians and activists, cooperating with Casey's CIA.
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<blockquote type="cite">This pope was an opponent of LT probably all thru the dirty war. . .
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "C. G. Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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