First let me establish my credentials: I am Uruguayan, living next to Argentina, with both countries so closely tied by history and culture they could be one. So, I can say that I know this guy.
This is the guy that was the leader of the Jesuits in Argentina during the bloody dictatorship. He fully supported that government. He gave aid and comfort to kidnappers, murderers and torturers. He condoned the secret adoptions by military families of the newborn babies of women that were kidnapped while pregnant and gave birth in detention, usually killed hours later (he literally said it to a grandmother who asked him to intercede for her daughter: the girl was dead and the baby adopted in a family "too important to give back the child") He even fingered two of his own priests who were too vocal against the
injustice so they would be disappeared and tortured for five months, and
then claimed credit for saving their lives by personally interceding
with the president.But of course later as archbishop he would not abandon another priest that was outed as having taken confession and given absolution to the pilots and soldiers of the "Death Flights" (the dictatorship had too many thousands of persons to disappear without a trace by shooting and burials, so they resorted to loading them in planes and dropping them over the sea), he personally protected him and shuffled him from church to church in places where he wouldn't be known or harassed.And lets not forget the fire and brimstone declarations against the democratic government that that legalized same sex marriage and adoption: "anthropologically backward", "discriminating against children", "doing the work of the prince of lies"...
So no, neither humble nor kindly grandfather no gentle hand. This asshole is as much a nazi as Ratzinger.
This is the guy that was the leader of the Jesuits in Argentina during the bloody dictatorship. He fully supported that government. He gave aid and comfort to kidnappers, murderers and torturers. He condoned the secret adoptions by military families of the newborn babies of women that were kidnapped while pregnant and gave birth in detention, usually killed hours later (he literally said it to a grandmother who asked him to intercede for her daughter: the girl was dead and the baby adopted in a family "too important to give back the child") He even fingered two of his own priests who were too vocal against the
injustice so they would be disappeared and tortured for five months, and
then claimed credit for saving their lives by personally interceding
with the president.But of course later as archbishop he would not abandon another priest that was outed as having taken confession and given absolution to the pilots and soldiers of the "Death Flights" (the dictatorship had too many thousands of persons to disappear without a trace by shooting and burials, so they resorted to loading them in planes and dropping them over the sea), he personally protected him and shuffled him from church to church in places where he wouldn't be known or harassed.And lets not forget the fire and brimstone declarations against the democratic government that that legalized same sex marriage and adoption: "anthropologically backward", "discriminating against children", "doing the work of the prince of lies"...
So no, neither humble nor kindly grandfather no gentle hand. This asshole is as much a nazi as Ratzinger.