Pope Francis and the long shadow of Argentina's "Dirty War"
Pictures and newspaper clips of desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance) in a former illegal detention center in Rosario, Argentina. Photo by Pablo D. Flores / courtesy Wikimedia Commons (http://bit.ly/10TLahA)
WASHINGTON (RNS) Just as life in communist Poland propelled Pope John Paul II's crusade against the Soviets and coming of age in Nazi Germany shaped Pope Benedict XVI, Argentina's Dirty War posed deep, existential questions for the future Pope Francis.