English: Cardinal Jorge M. Bergoglio SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(AP) — Pope Francis is known for his humility, his reluctance to talk
about himself. The self-effacement, admirers say, is why he has hardly
ever denied one of the harshest allegations against him: That he was
among church leaders who actively supported Argentina's murderous
dictatorship.
It's without dispute that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, like most other
Argentines, failed to openly confront the 1976-1983 military junta while
it was kidnapping and killing thousands of people in a "dirty war" to
eliminate leftist opponents.
But the new pope's authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin, argues that
this was a failure of the Roman Catholic Church in general, and that
it's unfair to label Bergoglio with the collective guilt that many
Argentines of his generation still deal with.
"In some way many of us Argentines ended up being accomplices," at a
time when anyone who spoke out could be targeted, Rubin recalled in an
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