In an article in 2006, Horacio Verbitsky, a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and one-time Leftist guerrilla, said of the new Pope: “Bergoglio is the most overwhelming and conflicting personality of the Argentine Church in decades, equally loved and detested.
“Depending on the source, he’s either the most generous and intelligent man who ever said Mass in the country or a Machiavellian felon who betrayed his brothers and had them disappeared and tortured by the military in the name of an insatiable ambition.”