the Vatican Church opted for the lesser of two evils and immolated Pope Benedict XVI.
And voilà : Pope Francis I.
First time for South America,
first time for a jesuit,
humble profile,
immune to the pomp and the rituals of Rome,
a fighter for the true faith.
In other words, a genuine reincarnation of Saint Francis,
the lamb among wolves.
But doing so, the 120 bishops that decided for the white smoke didn't go over his curriculum carefully and now the lamb is starting to reveil a more disturbign face..
Jorge Bergoglio is in fact involved in the most obscure and violent period of the recent Argentinian history : the militar dicatorship that between 1976 and 1983 assassinated more than 9,ooo opponents.
And whatever his role was in the inprisonment and the tortures suffered by Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics at the ESNA detention center, one fact is undeniable : the Church remained passive and motionless in front of the atrocities committed during that period.
Moreover, Bergoglio's past implications in the dictatorship and its fare right origins are not the only scary elements here.
To integrate the puzzle I shoul add his extremely conservative and homophobic positions : personally I think that a Pope stating that sexual protections,abortion and gay mariage are nothing but evil's deed is far from being the new Francisco.
For more information :
Horacio Verbitsky, "El jesuita" 2010 ; "El vuelo" 1995
El Pais article about Jorge Bergoglio
