ARGENTINA
Irish Independent
Michael Warren Buenos Aires– 20 April 2013
Pope Francis has been accused in an Argentine courtroom of failing to help protect a fellow Jesuit priest from the country’s military dictatorship and right-wing death squads.
Graciela Yorio accused the then Jorge Mario Bergoglio of turning his back on her brother, the late Orlando Virgilio Yorio, before and after he and another priest were taken by the junta’s agents and tortured in 1976.
Fr Bergoglio has said he did what he could as a young Jesuit leader with no real power to protect Fr Yorio and other slum priests from being kidnapped.
He testified in 2010 that he worked behind the scenes to win the freedom of Fr Yorio and the other priest, Francisco Jalics. But Ms Yorio disagreed.
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