GERMANY
Myrtle Beach Online
Published: March 20, 2013
By GEIR MOULSON — Associated Press
BERLIN — A Jesuit priest who was kidnapped by the Argentine military junta in the 1970s said Wednesday that he and a fellow cleric weren’t denounced by the future Pope Francis, then leader of Argentina’s Jesuits.
The Rev. Francisco Jalics, a Hungarian native who now lives in a German monastery, said in a statement that he was following up on comments about the case last week because he had received a lot of questions and “some commentaries imply the opposite of what I meant.” He did not elaborate.
Jalics and another priest, Orlando Yorio, were kidnapped in 1976.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now the pontiff, has said he told the priests to give up their work in slums for their own safety, and they refused. Yorio, who is now dead, later accused Bergoglio of effectively delivering them to the death squads by declining to publicly endorse their work.
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