UNITED STATES
Catholic League
Bill Donohue comments on how two bicoastal newspapers are reporting on Pope Francis and the so-called Dirty War:
No sooner had Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio been elected Pope Francis when the Los Angeles Times started reporting on his alleged “timidity” in fighting Argentina’s dictatorship during the Dirty War, 1976 to 1983. The newspaper also cited the rap that he was “too quiet” during this period. Similarly, the New York Times is saying that the pope is being accused of “knowing about abuses and failing to do enough to stop them.” What is particularly striking about today’s front-page story on this issue—the pope “faces his own entanglement with the Dirty War”—is that it took four journalists in four different nations to work on it.
Anyone who thinks these newspapers want a more vocal Catholic Church would be wrong: it totally depends on the issue.
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