Click here to advertise on CatholicCulture.org

The Insights eNewsletter

The Inaugural Mass, and the Dirty War

First appeared on 03/19/2013. Insights is also available to members via email delivery.

Pope Francis launched his pontificate formally today with his inaugural Mass. We can begin to get a sense of our new pope by reading the complete text of his homily.

Unfortunately, the media hatchet persons are hard at work trying to blacken the Pope's name, and they have seized upon the infamous Argentinian dirty war. We have three sources of information on this:

Phil Lawler likens these attacks to those on Pius XII in Hitler's Pope? The media thought otherwise at the time.
In Phil's latest collection of Perceptive commentary, he also identifies the work of Mary Anastasia O'Grady on this question in the Wall Street Journal.

I said there were three sources. It so happens that the new ebook containing our news coverage of Pope Francis before he became pope includes a couple of items on this “dirty war”.

NOTE: I will email this ebook free of charge to anyone who makes a donation in any amount to CatholicCulture.org before the end of March.... [more content for subscribers]

There's much more! Sign up to receive Insights!

Click here to advertise on CatholicCulture.org