The Vatican's archives on
the military dictatorship in Argentina will be opened in a
matter of months, Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said
Wednesday, noting that this had been the express request of Pope
Francis some time ago. The archives are being catalogued and in
the meantime specific questions, especially on judicial and
humanitarian issues, will be answered, he said. At the start of
his pontificate three years ago the pope faced short-lived
allegations of inaction during the Dirty War of dictator Jorge
Rafael Videla from 1976 to 1981. Some activists for the
'disappeared', opponents of the regime who were abducted and
killed, still claim some in the Catholic Church were partly
complicit with the military junta.
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