Flavia Dzodan (whom you should know as the coiner of the phrase "My feminism will be intersectional, or it will be bullshit," even though not everyone has been great, ahem, about attributing it) is busily documenting on her Twitter timeline Pope Francis' history during the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970's, during which "left wing activists were detained & tortured a priest was present to give sacraments in case of death."
This is her lived experience, and I encourage you to visit her TL to see everything, but here are some highlights:
The role of the Catholic Church during the dictatorship is extensively documented and they never were held accountable
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
This is an insult to the memory of 30,000 people who were kidnapped, tortured and disappeared during Argentina's dictatorship
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
The role of the Catholic Church, of which Bergoglio was Archibishop, is well documented in those 30,000 deaths
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
Bergoglio "delivering" priests to the military, a Guardian feature from 2010 is.gd/0AtOyY
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
And yet another feature about Bergoglio's role in handing out activists to dictatorship is.gd/laxeg5 calls accusation "slander"
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
LA Times in 2005: Argentine Cardinal Named in Kidnap Lawsuit (guess who was the cardinal?) is.gd/OAwI3u ALL HAIL NEW POPE!
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
Guess the name of the cardinal? "Argentine cardinal accused in 1976 kidnaps" highstrangeness.tv/0-799-argentin…
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
I saw my father burn half his library because he was in fucking terror that the dictatorship would find his books
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
Argentina lived in fucking terror in a dictatorship from which the country has not yet recovered fully and the Church was fully complicit
— Flavia Dzodan (@redlightvoices) March 13, 2013
In comments, Shaker BlueRidge shared this excerpt from the Guardian piece Flavia links above:
What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentine hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentine navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment.Priorities. The Catholic Church leadership has them. They are terrible.
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