tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post387862481831282497..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: Pope Francis and the Complicity of SilenceSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-59447237602931302852013-03-18T10:25:55.680-04:002013-03-18T10:25:55.680-04:00Would you believe the old fascist Videla has once ...Would you believe the old fascist Videla has once again called for a coup d'État against the Ferrandez Kirchner government? http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-216033-2013-03-18.html<br /><br />In the meantime, President Cristina Fernández Kirchner is meeting the Pope in the Vatican, along with her Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, who is the son of one of the most famous "disappeared" and torture victims, the journalist and editor Jacobo Timerman...<br />http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-216046-2013-03-18.html<br />(the elder Timerman was later released and exiled to Israel; there he became very critical of Israel's own 1982 war on Lebanon, though he had been a moderate Zionist before). Jacobo returned to Argentina after the end of the dictatorship, and died there in 1999. <br />http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-216046-2013-03-18.html<br /><br />I also have some hopes, not of course about the reactionary old Pope's ideas (certainly not about LGBT people and women) but that his call to listen to the poor and to speak of the harm done to creation (the Saint Francis references) can encourage the many (like the late President Chàvez) who drew radically different conclusions from their Catholic faith. lagatta à montréalhttp://www.lemab.canoreply@blogger.com