Pope Francis will meet tomorrow Argentine Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. News announced by Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi come after Pérez Esquivel denied accusations that linked Bergoglio with Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Last weekend, the Catholic Church rejected for “libelous and slanderous” the allegations that target the alleged “silent” role played by the ex BA City archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio during the country’s dark period to protect priests persecuted and killed by the ruling Junta.
Lombardi himself quoted the statements of Pérez Esquivel who recently told media that “no ties exist” between the newly elected pope and the civil-military leadership that murdered 30,000 people here.
“There were bishops who were accomplices of the dictatorship but Bergoglio was not,” Pérez Esquivel pointed out and considered that the pontiff “is being questioned because he did not do enough to take two priests out of prison while he was the head of the Jesuit order.”
“I personally know that many bishops resquested the military Junta the freeing of prisoners and priests and that it was not granted to them,” the 1980 winner of the
Nobel Peace Prize and human rights activists stated.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald