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More on Bergoglio and the Dirty War
With his permission, I'm posting this (extensive) comment by Charles Kenney (Professor of Political Science University of Oklahoma, specializing in Latin America), which appeared in the thread of my last post, because it brings together more detail and context on the Bergoglio, Dirty War issue than I've seen reported in any one place. I do also want to highlight a disagreement on a few of these points in this post by Fr. Thomas Reese. I'm not sure how consequential some of those disagreements are to the gravest questions raised, but they are worth keeping in mind. In any event, I thought Prof. Kenney's summary might provide a useful starting point for further discussion. Prof. Kenney's comment appears in full after the jump:UPDATE: I've updated the post to include an image of a government document that Prof. Kenney translates in his comment. The document lends support to Prof. Kenney's version of the passport story over certain elements of Fr. Reese's interpretation of that episode (while Fr. Reese says Bergoglio was trying to convince the government to extend the priest's passport, the document suggests that Bergoglio actually recommended that the passport not be extended). In addition, here is an article from New Republic with additional detail based on Bergoglio's testimony before an Argentine tribunal.
An unlikely St. Patricks message (see St. Patricks Massacre below)My take on the question of Bergoglios responsibilities during the Dirty War in Argentina:Fr. Jorge Bergoglio, SJ, now Pope Francis, was a young provincial (36 when appointed, 39 when the coup took place), the context was volatile, the two priests, Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics, did not obey his demand that they leave the poor neighborhood where they worked and one or both asked to leave the Jesuits and join a diocese under a tolerant bishop.The Argentine Church leadership, with a few notable exceptions, behaved abominably. They gave public recognition and support to the military dictatorship for years. They gave almost no public recognition or support to the victims and their families. Several priests played central roles in the detention, torture, and murder of suspected dissidents, and justified this in religious terms. Only a few bishops defended the human rights of the disappeared and supported organizations like the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One priest, Christian von Wernach, is presently serving a life sentence for his role, while others have been accused but not yet put on trial.In this context, Bergoglio would have to have been heroic to speak out. He did not.The fear of Communism was both rational and irrational, and it led the military, civilians, and many within the Church to fear those among them who might be "subversive" and they allowed this fear to justify some of the most cruel and brutal treatment to which human beings have subjected other human beings in the Americas in the last half century.This is not about comparing evils, as if the evil done by Communist regimes could somehow justify the evil done in the name of anti-Communism.There were Catholics and ex-Catholics, some priests, who participated in or were strongly linked to some of the leftist groups who were carrying out assassinations and bomb attacks. There were many more Catholics committed to the poor who were not in any way involved in violent actions.The regime tended to see anyone who worked with the poor or who defended human rights as subversive, either because they were directly participating in the violence or because their teaching of the Gospel provided ideological justification for leftist positions, violent or not.Of what, to my understanding, is Bergoglio accused?1. Bergoglio is accused of believing that either or both Fr. Orlando Yorio, SJ and Fr. Francisco Jalics, SJ, were dangerous subversives and of communicating this belief to many others in a way that facilitated their arrest. Released after five months, Yorio and Jalics told others in person and in letters that they thought Bergoglio was responsible for their arrest and that he had told others that Yorio and Jalics were involved with the guerrillas. Other Jesuits told Yorio and Jalics that Bergoglio was responsible. The priests' beliefs are not evidence that Bergolio facilitated their arrest, but this does show that they thought the accusation highly credible.2. Bergoglio is accused of withdrawing his protection from Yorio and Jalics before they were arrested. After much discussion and debate, Bergoglio gave them a letter ordering them to leave the community they were serving within 15 days; Jalics was to be transferred to Germany. Bergoglio told them that their only alternative to leaving the community was to leave the Jesuits. Yorio indicated in writing on March 19 that this was his intention, but also said he never received a response. Until his arrest he thought he was still a Jesuit and still communicated intensely with Bergoglio. Only after his release and exile in Rome did he find out that Bergoglio had expelled them from the Jesuit Order shortly before their arrest.An important note about the context: Yorio and Jalics went to work in a poor neighborhood in 1974 during a time in which there was an elected government, but there were also armed organizations carrying out assassinations and bombings on both the left and the right. In 1973, one of the people who had worked with Yorio and Jalics in the neighborhood left and joined one of the leftist guerrilla groups and had no more contact with Yorio and Jalics.The Argentine military coup took place on March 26, 1976, shortly after Yorio wrote to Bergoglio asking to leave the Jesuits. After the coup, the person who joined the guerrillas was captured and interrogated. It emerged that he had once worked in the neighborhood with Yorio and Jalics. On May 14 five catechists (and two of their husbands) who worked with Yorio and Jalics were arrested and eventually murdered by the regime without it ever acknowledging that it held them. One of these catechists was Mnica Mignone, the daughter of former Education Minister and Catholic activist Emilio Mignone.If Bergoglio withdrew his protection, he did so knowing what risks the priests were facing. After their arrest, Yorio and Jalics were interrogated extensively about the catechists. Neither the priests nor any of the seven arrested the week before the priests were ever found to be involved with the guerrillas. None of the seven was ever seen again.3. Bergoglio is accused of blocking the efforts of a sympathetic bishop to receive Yorio and Jalics. The bishop reportedly told others that he was fearful for their lives and sought to protect them, but that even after personally meeting with Bergoglio to plead his case Bergoglio did not cede. As I try to make sense of this accusation, I try to **imagine** that the two priests were seen by Bergoglio as something like "dangerous communist terrorists," or, to make the point in a different way, as dangerous pedophiles. One could imagine why, as a matter of principle, the Jesuit Superior was unwilling to let them go to another diocese--if indeed it is true that he blocked their way. If this happened, perhaps it could be justified, perhaps not, but it is another part of the reason that Bergoglio is accused of contributing to the priests' arrest.After arrest, Yorio and Jalics were taken to the ESMA (Escuela Superior de Mecnica de la Armada or Naval Petty Officers School of Mechanics), which became infamous as a detention and torture center from which many hundreds were taken and killed by drugging them, putting them in airplanes, and dropping them into the ocean so that their bodies would never be found. The two priests were manacled and not allowed to move or use the bathroom for five days while they were interrogated. While this was a form of torture, they were not subjected to electric shock and the other harsher tortures that were systematic under the regime. Unlike more than a thousand of those who were taken to ESMA, Yorio and Jalics survived. They were taken after five days to another location and held, manacled and blindfolded, for five more months before being dumped on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, alive. Yorio was sent to Rome and Jalics to Germany.4. Bergoglio is accused of having presented to the regime a written petition to renew the passport for Fr. Jalics on December 4, 1979, while Jalics was in Germany and for fear of his life could not return to Argentina. The written petition supports Jalics' request and carries Bergoglio's signature. Another document was found attached to the first. It states that Jalics' passport should not be renewed, and carries the signature of a government official.There is a third document attached that states the following (this is translated from the original scanned document uploaded by Verbitsky to the Pgina 12 website):Father Francisco Jalics:
- Dissolute activity in the women's religious congregations (Conflicts of obedience)
- Detained in the Naval Mechanical School 5/24/76 [- ] XI/76 (6 months), accused with Fr. Yorio
Suspected of guerrilla contacts
- They lived in a small community that the Jesuit Superior dissolved in February 1976 and they refused to obey, requesting that they be allowed to leave the Jesuits on March 19; the 2 were expelled, [but] Fr. Jalics not because he had solemn vows.
No Bishop in Greater Buenos Aires wanted to receive them.NB: this information was furnished to Mr. Orgoyen [the government official handling the passport renewal request] by Fr. Bergoglio himself, the signer of the original petition, with special recommendation that the petition not be granted."[Below this is the signature of Orgoyen, the government official.]http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-215961-2013-03-17.htmlIn other words, Bergoglio is accused of having acting visibly and in writing to support Fr. Jalics' petition, and of having acted invisibly and not in writing to undermine his request. He is accused of making numerous charges against Jalics, including that he was in contact with the guerrillas.5. Bergoglio is accused of publishing Church documents in a book regarding the period of the Dirty War, emphasizing that they were published "without omissions." The original of at least one of the documents was subsequently found and it was seen that the published version in fact omitted text that revealed much greater complicity by the Church with the regime than the published version. My understanding is that the original version has been published, but I have not seen it.6. Bergoglio is accused of claiming that he and other Church leaders were unaware of certain thingsthat detainees were being tortured, that detainees were being murdered and disappeared without trial or acknowledgement of their detention; that babies born to detained (and soon to be disappeared) women were being given in adoption to military and police familiesduring periods when documents exist demonstrating that he and others discussed and knew about these things.7. Bergoglio is NOT accused of having helped to hide detainees from an international human rights group's visit to the torture center by taking them to a summer retreat owned by the Church and used by the Cardinal. These events took place, but Bergoglio had no role, and Horacio Verbitsky (the journalist who wrote about this and who provided the evidence for many of the accusations made in points 1-6 above) says not only was Bergoglio not part of this, it was Bergoglio himself who helped Verbitsky find the evidence that proved the Church's connection to the incident.Yorio later returned to Argentina to serve in the Diocese of Quilmes and it was he who contacted Verbitsky to denounce Bergoglio. Yorio died in 2000. Jalics remains a Jesuit in Germany and is active giving lectures and leading spiritual exercises. When contacted by Verbitsky, he confirmed Yorio's denunciations and added his own information. He said, however, that he had forgiven Bergoglio and preferred not to revisit that painful period of his life, and did not want his name to appear in print. When contacted by a second journalist, he said he would neither confirm nor deny the allegations.According to an article published on Sunday, March 17, 2013 by Horacio Verbitsky in the Argentine newspaper Pgina 12, (I translate): Jalics has forgiven the evil they did to him. This says more about him than about Bergoglio. Jalics does not deny the events, which he narrated his 1994 book Meditation Exercises: Many people who had political convictions of the extreme right looked poorly on our presence in the slums. They interpreted the fact that we lived there as support for the guerrillas and they decided to denounce us as terrorists. We knew from where the wind blew and who was responsible for this slander. So I went to speak with the person in question and explained to him that he was playing with our lives. This man promised that he would make sure the military knew that we were not terrorists. Through later declarations by an officer and thirty documents that I was able to access we were later able to prove beyond a doubt that this man had not fulfilled his promise but that, on the contrary, he had presented a false accusation to the military.In another part of the book, he added that this person made credible the slander by virtue of his authority and testified before the officers who kidnapped us that we had worked on the scene of the terrorist action. Shortly before this I had told this person that he was playing with our lives. He should have understood that he was sending us to certain death with his declarations.Verbitsky continues:In a letter he wrote in Rome in November of 1977 to Fr. Moura, the Assistant General of the Jesuits, Orlando Yorio told the same story but replaced a person with Jorge Mario Bergoglio.http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-215961-2013-03-17.htmlIn recent days Jalics provided a written statement that has been translated.http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/15/3288556/translation-of-statement-from.htmlIn it Jalics says that he has become reconciled with the events that took place and that, for his part, he considers this a closed matter. He says he is unable to comment on the role played by Bergoglio in these events. He says he met once with Bergoglio in recent years, spoke about this, celebrated Mass together, and solemnly embraced.Note: this is not an exoneration by Jalics, as some have chosen to interpret it.Jalics also says that, with the permission of Bergoglio, he went with Yorio to live in the poor neighborhood, and that neither of them had any contact with the military junta or with the guerrillas. I think the inclusion of contact with the military junta may have been meant to draw a contrast with Bergoglio or with other members of the Church leadership. Jalics says that due to the lack of information and targeted misinformation at that point in time our position was open to misinterpretation within the church. He does not say who was the source of the targeted misinformation and he does not say who within the Church misinterpreted their position.Emilio Mignone, whose daughter Mnica was arrested a week before Yorio and Jalics, became a leader in the human rights movement in Argentina. He held that Bergoglio had responsibility in her disappearance. His colleague in the human rights movement, Alicia Oliveira, was Bergoglio's friend and knew of his efforts to help some of those persecuted by the regime, and defended him. Neither knew at the time of the "passport document" discovered only recently, which seems to show Bergoglio acting in defense of Fr. Jalics publicly while undermining and accusing him in secret.Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Prez Esquivel has said that Bergolgio was not one of those who were complicit with the regime, but that Bergoglio lacked the courage to defend those who were being tortured and murdered by the regime.I end with a little more context: in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 4, 1976, as the United States celebrated its bicentennial and six weeks after the arrest of Yorio and Jalics, a military death squad went to the parish house of San Patricio and murdered the three priests and two seminarians living there. When those coming to Mass that morning investigated, they found the five men lying face down on the floor in their pajamas in a pool of blood, riddled with bullets. This became known as the Masacre de San Patricio, or St. Patricks Massacre.The death squad left two written messages.One said: "for the comrades dynamited in the Federal Security building. We will win. Long live the fatherland."[This was a reference to a guerrilla bomb attack in the cafeteria at the Federal Security building that killed 20 police officers.]The other said: "These leftists died for being indoctrinators of virgin minds and for being MSTM," MSTM being the initials of the Movement of Priests for the Third World.The concern about Bergoglio's role cannot be understood while focusing only on two Jesuit priests who survived. It must be understood that Mnica Mignone and hundreds of lay Church activists like her were brutally tortured and murdered, being guilty of nothing more than serving the poor and thinking the wrong thoughts; that dozens of priests and religious were likewise murdered in Argentina for the same crimes, and that the murderers were praised and blessed for their work by still other priests and religious. These were the same crimes for which Jesuit Rutilio Grande would be murdered the following year in El Salvador, for which Archbishop Oscar Romero would be assassinated three years after that, and six more Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter nine years after that. And so on.Bergoglio has said in the past that we should not focus on his public silence, but know that in private he sought to aid the persecuted. He does appear to have helped some of the persecuted, but if the documents uncovered regarding his assistance in getting Fr. Jalics' passport renewed are an indication of what he did in private, it appears that there may be still another, even more private level at which he acted, and for which he has much to answer.
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Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.
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There is much in Professor Kenneys post that I find troubling. Lets start with this: In this context, Bergoglio would have to have been heroic to speak out. He did not. Since we dont know what Bergoglio did or did not do behind the scenes, its a bit presumptuous to gratuitously claim, 40 years later from the comfort and safety of Americas heartland, that he did not act heroically, no?Bergoglio is accused of believing...Yes, you read that right, he is accused of believing. In other words, a provincial is wrong for allegedly believing priests in his charge may have behaved badly, and doing something about it! So, of course, if Cardinal Law believed any of his priests behaved badly in Boston, and had done something about it, he should be similarly faulted. Oh wait...
Thanks for posting this. I don't doubt it will be very unpopular.When I made a Jesuit retreat, there was a week when we dwelled upon what happened to the six Jesuits in El Salvador (link). I wonder if this is some connection between an anti-liberation theology stance and LC (Communion and Liberation) in which Francis (and JPII and Benedict) is involved. As Wikipedia states, it's ... "Regarded by many Italians during its early history to be a Catholic integralist and anti-Marxist political organization" ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_and_Liberation
Thanks for juxtaposing the two writers' explanations, Eduardo. Reese says, "Other rumors circulating say that as archbishop, Bergoglio allowed the military to hide prisoners in an archdiocesan retreat house so that they would not be seen by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights visiting the ESMA prison. Fact: Bergoglio was not archbishop when this took place. Horacio Verbitsky, an Argentine investigative journalist, says that Bergoglio helped him investigate the case."From that, I get the impression that Thomas Reese is using Verbitsky to bolster (at least some of) his claims about Bergoglio. (Convincingly, imho.) Kenney says in his 2.: "Bergoglio told them that their only alternative to leaving the community was to leave the Jesuits. Yorio indicated in writing on March 19 that this was his intention, but also said he never received a response. Until his arrest he thought he was still a Jesuit and still communicated intensely with Bergoglio. Only after his release and exile in Rome did he find out that Bergoglio had expelled them from the Jesuit Order shortly before their arrest." And Kenney says in 7.: "These events took place, but Bergoglio had no role, and Horacio Verbitsky (the journalist who wrote about this and who provided the evidence for many of the accusations made in points 1-6 above) says not only was Bergoglio not part of this, it was Bergoglio himself who helped Verbitsky find the evidence that proved the Churchs connection to the incident."But Verbitsky, supposedly, has said that Bergoglio had expelled the two priests a week before their capture. Verbitsky is cited as a source for both sides. So which is it? Is he to be believed when his claims support the claims of Reese and/or Kenney, but not when they refute them?(I'm not challenging any of them, just asking. I find the role of the Church in the dirty war AND the reporting on it fascinating. And I think a lot more is known about it by North American journalists than has been published. If that is correct, I don't blame them. Better to be a live chicken than a dead duck.)
This is helpful. And disturbing. But what to make of the "ifs" and "it appears"? It's rather rough in form, and at times it's hard to know who is talking about whom. Also, the presentation strikes me as putting the worst possible interpretations on some matters that are at best ambiguous. That Father Begoglio in his role as provincial thirty-five years ago made mistaken, even less than courageous, decisions in a very complex situation is one thing. That this erring on the side of what he judged to be prudent links him to acts of murder and torture is, I think, a step too far. I am more persuaded by Father Tom Reese's article in NCR. (Yes, I have known Father Reese for twenty years, and greatly respect him.)
It's obvious that Yorio and Jalics had different views than Bergoglio about what they should be doing in their ministry. And that they clashed about what their ministries should be and what religious obedience required of them. But I get the feeling from some of what I've read here and on other sites that some people believe that if Bergoglio wasn't arrested, he was necessarily a collaborator. I don't believe that. And I'm very unclear as to what exactly Bergoglio could have done to prevent Yorio and Jalics from being arrested, given their activities among the poor and the regime's suspicion of that.
1. Bergoglio is accused of believing that either or both Fr. Orlando Yorio, SJ and Fr. Francisco Jalics, SJ, were dangerous subversives and of communicating this belief to many others in a way that facilitated their arrest. Released after five months, Yorio and Jalics told others in person and in letters that they thought Bergoglio was responsible for their arrest and that he had told others that Yorio and Jalics were involved with the guerrillas. Other Jesuits told Yorio and Jalics that Bergoglio was responsible. The priests beliefs are not evidence that Bergolio facilitated their arrest, but this does show that they thought the accusation highly credible.
While Yorio and Jalics believed that Bergoglio facilitated their arrest, I'm not sure why he would have done this yet later confronted Admiral Massera to demand their release, as he claims he did. That Yorio and Jalics were released alive lends credence to Bergoglio's version of events.
2. Bergoglio is accused of withdrawing his protection from Yorio and Jalics before they were arrested.
What exactly would this "protection" have consisted of? If they had had this "protection", does that mean Yorio and Jalics would not have been arrested? (Unlike, say, other Jesuits who apparently did have this protection and were still arrested?)
3. Bergoglio is accused of blocking the efforts of a sympathetic bishop to receive Yorio and Jalics.
I'm guessing that this means that Yorio and Jalics would have left the Jesuits and been incardinated as priests in the diocese of that bishop who was sympathetic to them. How exactly would this have prevented the junta from later arresting the two of them?
I don't like Kenney adding horror stories that Bergoglio had nothing to do with in any way. e.g. Dumping bodies from planes and the St Patrick's massacre among others. I call that padding the case against Bergoglio with tangential story lines. which is dismissed in any court by a judge who says 'what's the relevance of that. '???
Besides folks, the NYT ('supposed enemy of all things Catholic?] has an admiring piece about Francis http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/world/europe/francis-charms-crowd-on-f...
What puts me off is that people seem to accept the accusations against the Pope very uncritically, but then seem to summarily reject arguments in his defense.
"If Bergoglio withdrew his protection"This phrase has been used a number of times in these threads. What does this mean exactly? What protection did Bergoglio have to give them - in addition to ordering them out of the place where they were gravely at risk? Is it thought that the regime and/or the torture squads would not have arrested the two priests without Bergoglio's permission? Is there evidence at hand that indicates that this happened?
"What puts me off is that people seem to accept the accusations against the Pope very uncritically, but then seem to summarily reject arguments in his defense."But the opposite of this is true, as well. Polarization.
The article is an almost textual copy of the one written by Horacio Verbitsky in today's issue of Pagina 12. It fails to tell the background of Mr. Verbitsky, a former leftist terrorist who was disciplined in the communist doctrines of Fidel Castro and "Che" Guevara. Mr. Verbitsky trial for terrorist acts while a member of Montoneros was conveniently drop by the Kirchner's government in 2007 due to "statue of limitations". Mr. Verbitsky words and articles about Pope Francis are to be dismissed. If it was not by the protection of the current argentine government, Mr. Verbitsky should be in jail.
Eduardo, it is not the weakness of your arguments that bother as much as your persistence in this matter. As if to justify your faux pas in venturing here to begin with. I know there is no Santa Claus and the tooth fairy does not exist. But on a day when Francis stood outside St. Ann's church and greeted the faithful, you present us with this garbage. Yes garbage. Do you fault Jesus for rebuking Peter telling him to put his sword away? Then what is wrong with Bergoglio rebuking his priest for being too militant? And what does it prove "if" it is true that Bergoglio made errors in judgment? Like Monday morning quarterbacking. So much testimony from those who worked for the poor and yet you are looking for fault. It is a fishing expedition. http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2P7zdzyY7GU&desktop...
Yeah, Eduardo, don't you know this guy craps rainbows and picks up his own tab? Lay off!
I'm still not clear about the sources here. Are we still, in every case, depending ultimately upon one source for the facts of the case: the journalist Verbitsky? I am appreciative of Professor Kenney's gathering of the information from several press sources (being an expert on Peru, he could hardly come up with more original research on Argentina overnight), but do they all circle back to Verbitsky? Verbitsky may be correct, but it would be helpful to know if there's corroboration from other sources.
While the World in its entirety has only excellent reviews about Pope Francis and his work, Mr Verbitsky was the only one who is disseminating manure about Pope Francis. Well, everybody knows in Argentina who is Mr Verbitsky. His creadibility is marginal and his words and reviews are, in general, vindictive like now in the case of the new Pope. Even Nobel Price Mr Esquivel (very strong advocate of Human Rights) has dismissed all false accusations about former priest Bergoglio, including those of Verbitsky who now has two partners participating in his quest of vilifying Pope Francis. Three fishes from the same murky tank.
Does anyone know what the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo think of the new pope? I got this link, but it's in Spanish and somewhat inaudible: http://www.abuelas.org.ar/This text in Italian has them saying that the new pope represents fascism, dictatorship: http://www.nanopress.it/mondo/2013/03/14/la-madri-di-plaza-de-mayo-contr...
Here's a case. Jack gets a prominent position. Joe know that Jack has done, some years ago, something questionable. For the sake of argument , let's say that, back then, Jack has indeed done something very wrong. What is the Christian way for Joe to act? May Joe rightly say that, until Jack "comes clean" to Joe's satisfaction, he, Joe, has every right to keep bringing up what Jack did back then, and suggest that Jack is somehow not fit for his job or is not deserving of respect or is under a cloud until Joe is satisfied or whatever? By contrast, we see in today's Gospel Jesus dealing with someone caught in flagrante, committing adultery. There were a bunch of Joe's ready to test Jesus, wondering if he would be as righteous as they were about her. Whatever Pope Francis did or didn't do when he was 39 years old, who could rightly feel entitled to pass judgment on his present fitness for his office. Maybe, maybe someone wholly without sin of their own. No one else, so far as I can see.As the priest as mass today said: " We love to look at the sins of others. They reassure us and allow us to ignore our own sins. I know all the arguments about "transparency" and "openness." Important as is the point they make, they do not, at the end of the day, amount to licenses to claim without further ado the moral high ground in judging the moral character of anyone other than ourselves.
Quick background from an excellent source on the current Argentinian government and broader historical Peronist movement for context on Bergoglio's relationship with the Kirchners: http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/4/20/whats-the-matter-with-argentina...
Sorry, I missed a few quotation marks above.. I trust that what I've said is clear. Whether it is right or not is of course another matter.
No need to ask for clarity on facts when someone is caught "in flagrante", is there?But say that your spouse may or may not have committed adultery. Even if you were going to forgive her anyway, still, wouldn't you want to know?
The Joe and Jack parable equally applies to bishops involved in sex abuse scandals, but no one applies it there. The old Romans were well aware that scandals are unquenchable, which is why one had to be "above suspicion". Modern communications make it impossible to keeps all the dirty linen hidden away, so we need to develop a new ethic of understanding and forgiveness. But how? In any case, the parable presupposes that Bergoglio is not blameless, whereas he may well be blameless.
That skimpy piece on Peronism is not particularly enlightening. Is there any evidence that Bergoglio is politically an anti-Peronist? He might be very happy with Peronists if they respected his authority more.
"Bergoglio told them that their only alternative to leaving the community was to leave the Jesuits. Yorio indicated in writing on March 19 that this was his intention, but also said he never received a response. Until his arrest he thought he was still a Jesuit and still communicated intensely with Bergoglio. Only after his release and exile in Rome did he find out that Bergoglio had expelled them from the Jesuit Order shortly before their arrest."Can a provincial expel a Jesuit from the community. I am under the impression that can be done only by the Father General in Rome.
Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo is a group created to represent and defend the rights of the "magnificent group of young people who were murdered by the military regime while fighting for freedom and democracy". Two things must be strongly rejected and repudiated: The terrorist acts perpetuated with great loss of innocent lives by this "magnificent group of young people" (all members of the AAA and Montonero guerilla groups) and, on the other hand, the abominable methodology used by the military to control the terrorism. During these tragic years, neither the military nor the terrorists had any regard for human rights. A great tragedy that will continue to divide Argentina for years to come. As time went by, Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo lost their original luster and purpose, gradually becoming institutions of the "kirchner political predicament" plagued with miscontrol, incompetence and corruption. Now, there voices and statements had lost pragmatisim, intelectual authority and respect. Their assessment of Pope Francis have the same validity of those of Mr.Verbitsky.
As I interpret Francis behavior so far, he was a man in a horrible situation who had to make prudential judgments that may or may not have been wise or even fair. I might add, however, that if he did lie to save someone's life I would not fault him, and if he lied to somehow protect the work of the Church, I also would not fault him for that. Perhaps he was weak. But it is also quite possible that his accusers have exagerated his faults, which perhaps would also be understandable. It remains to be seen if he will be strong in the future, but I am hopeful. His love of the poor seems uncontested.No doubt many books will be written about this history. The questions we are all asking might never be answered to our satisfaction because the evidence is too often a matter of he said-she said evidence. One's own testimony about one's own interest is never extremely strong (unless it costs the speaker a lot in some way), and, unfortunately there are liars in this world, and some of them are highly respected people. (I once heard a highly-respected person lie under oath!) So we'll never have any certainty about what happened in the '70's. In any event, there is a huge lesson to be learned from all this: it is possible that a person be weak and strong, good and bad, wise and unwise in different ways. It is also possible to change with the grace of God. If Francis needs forgiveness, I'm sure he'll find it. And I'm still hopeful, no matter his faults and sins, he might end up a great pope in spite of any prior misjudgments or sins. Think of St. Peter.
"While Yorio and Jalics believed that Bergoglio facilitated their arrest, Im not sure why he would have done this yet later confronted Admiral Massera to demand their release, as he claims he did. That Yorio and Jalics were released alive lends credence to Bergoglios version of events."William L. --Excellent point. Where's the "complicity" in this? Telling his priests not to continue a ministry is NOT telling the junta it is OK to kidnap and torture them.I am constantly amazed at the way some people make a connection between two events in their imaginations and then conclude that there is some real causal relation between them. They go from "Maybe X!" to "It's a fact!!". Totally irrational.
Bill Mazzella:Not that anyone cares (and not that anyone oughtto care), thank you brother. I think you are wrong about a lot of things, but when the nitty meets the gritty, you're always there.God Bless
We return to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving us, never! We are the ones who get tired of asking forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace to never tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving us.This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.
The failures of the Argentinian Bishops and Church are well known during the 1970's etc. Perhaps, being so much more influenced by the memories of the Spanish civil war - the then church leadership's fear of communism was very deep in their psyches. Those were very dangerous times and Paul V1 even had to remove the eventual Cardinal Pironio to Rome to save his life. Pironio was an exception amongst the Argentinian Bishops. But we can't forget that not all leftists at that time were without fault...mistakes were made by them as well. Huge mistakes - that many of them now admit. Mistakes that were part of the spiral of violence that Dom Helder spoke of...So it is simply unjust to scapegoat today the then young Jesuit provincial Fr Bergoglio....as if he must prove to us his 'innocence'.So yes, the Argentinians were not the prophetic Brazilian church of that period. Maybe Fr Bergoglio made mistakes. However, we also need to remember that people can grow and develop. His close friendship with Franciscan Cardinal Hummes of Sao Paulo - himself a great defender of human rights at that time and then Bergoglio's long personal witness of solidarity with the poor - vouch for considerable authenticity For what it's worth I had the privilige of organising their visits to Australia in the 1980's and speaking for several hours to - Dom Helder Camara; Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns and Dom Luciano Mendes de Almeida sj about the issue of human rights . They were human rights prophets and very courageous but they all cautioned me about making simplistic judgements from afar about Argentina and indeed Central America at the time .I especially remember Dom Helder saying that he hoped that he would be not judged by some aspects of his past - he mentioned his flirtation with fascism as a young priest in his 30's. Dom Helder openly confessed he made mistakes in his past - serious mistakes - but because he actually started living with poor people in Recife he was 'converted'.Perfect people need not apply for leadership or membership - in the church . We now have a Pope who - whatever the fog of the 1970's in Argentina - clearly has grown and developed because he loves the poor.I, for one, pray to Dom Helder each day and I am sure he is delighted his Brother Pope Francis has become our Pastor in chief. Like Dom Helder and all of us - he is a sinner but the election of a man who grown especially through love of the poor fills me with joy. Let the prophets of doom here and elsewhere give Pope Francis at least a chance to act ...I am confident he will not disappoint Dom Helder or the rest of us.
You can read some bits of what one of the Jesuit priests that was kidnapped, Franz Jalics, wrote about the situation in a book in this article = Argentinas Dirty War Casts a Pall Over Bergoglio. He didn't mention names but it's interesting still.
Maybe Eduardo is playing Devils Acvocate. That things may be thrashed out once and for all and let Francis lead. Certainly, Eduardo's prodding has led to some clarification which can be a good thing. Jesus prayed that all may be one. This bishop of Rome lights up that prayer and inspires all of us to explain and live out the hope that is in us. Francis reminds one of Jesus; mercy over sacrifice, come to me all who are burdened, healing, forgiveness. John XXIII never tired of saying: "The mercies of the Lord endure forever." Francis got our hearts which can only be effective through Jesus. May grace super abound where sin abounded.
I know that comments on THIS site will not be the final word on this matter, but I am very pleased to see the give and take. The worst thing that could happen would be to instantly raise this man to quasi-sainthood just because he has been elected pope. The truth shall make us free, remember? But no one has ever said that it wouldn't be painless not simply easy.Francis will be better known in this church and the rest of the world once this has been cussed and discussed to death. Then he can move on to his major (but not only by far) real challenge: cleaning out the augean stables know as the Curia.If that doesn't happen he will be in charge of a defeated papacy before he ever gets it off the ground when it comes to other issues.
Bleaming former cardenal Bergoglio of not trying to defend or protect Yorio and Jelics is like bleaming him of not trying to stop the assassination of General Aramburu by Fernando Abal Medina, a fervent catholic, founder of the Montoneros. Abal Medina and Verbitsky are "coreligionists" of the Montonero terrorist group.
As some one who believed the much used charge/argument that bishops covered up for abusing priests because the priests had an obedience vow to the bishop and a bishop thought that all his priests were like his sons. Also a Bishop was so formed that he would stretch any law to 'protect' his errant sons. Just like I would for my five sons.. Now we are supposed to swallow whole a secularist journalist's s claims the a provincial leader would turn over his 'sons' to a fascist sadist killer , an Argentine military officer .. and for what ? some kind of payback or theological dispute or difference with the bishop's 'sons' about the proper pastoral stance toward the poor? Give me break.. .
I dont understand why this horse continues to be beaten. The dirty war in Argentina was a time of terror. At the time Bergoglio was NOT a bishop, he was a provincial. What protection did he have to offer any of the Jesuits other than what was possible if they lived in their usual quarters---parishes and chaplaincies? I think its irresponsible to assert that there are documents which demonstrate that Bergoglio and other religious leaders knew about the various methods of torture when these documents are not provided. The assertions of one journalist really have to be corroborated by others. Without such corroboration, these allegations are empty. Opinion is NOT evidence.
We seem to be getting two types of additional "confirmatory" evidence, either in the main presentation or in the comments:1. Stories that repeat basically the same information already published elsewhere over the past three days. This begins to get tedious.2. New evidence that ends up in hopeless tangles and blind alleys. I am trying to read everything presented, but the more I read the more confused I become.---At one point in Professor Kenney's account, there is a very contradictory and garbled note, taken from a document, that says that Father Jalics was expelled from the Society of Jesus in March 1976, but then it goes on to say that he could not be expelled because he had made solemn vows. This is double talk. I agree with Helen that a Jesuit in solemn vows (a professed Father) could only be expelled by the Father General. One thing we know for sure is that Father Jalics is still a Jesuit.
Here is Fr. Jalics most recent statement dated March 15. He says that after their arrest he and Yorio were interrogated for five days, and that the officer who conducted the investigation told them that they were innocent and would be returned to the neighborhood in Buenos Aires, where they had been living. Nevertheless, they were held for another five months. He says he has no position on Bergoglio's role in the events of the past, and that he and Yorio had reconciled with Bergoglio, celebrated a public Mass together, and embraced each other. He concludes by wishing God's blessing on his papacy. http://bit.ly/XcjzkV
It seems clear that Fr. Jalics has recently forgiven Francis, but that doesn't really speak to what Francis may have done in the past. The excerpts from Fr. Jalics' 1994 book are pretty disturbing .... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/15/argentina-s-dirty-war-c...
What do people think Bergoglio should have done as provincial? Two priests were working with people who were being arrested by the government. This may have, I conjecture here, meant a threat to all Jesuits in Argentina; the order being suppressed by largely conservative bishops of Argentina; the priests drifting away from the Society leading toward dissolution; others? B. was chosen by the Master general ( Arrupe?) to take charge of the province, and probably also by the local Jesuits? Why? What was he being asked to do? Would that mission be served by "protecting" Jesuits who in effect had said their particular ministry was more important to them than the Jesuits?As presented, the case seems too narrowly focussed on the two brothers and the dirty war, without considering either the Jesuit community or the larger Church community. What we do know is that neither detainee died, unlike many other detainees, and the Jesuits remained in Argentina to become powerful voice for the poor as seen in B's promotion to the episcopacy. Without some convincing description of what else should have been done, I am inclined toward accepting B's actions as reasonable,
One thing we know for sure is that Father Jalics is still a Jesuit.John, If Jalics and and Yorio had not been expelled from the Society, another strange thing is that various reporters say things like this: "After their detainment, Yorio and Jalics were offered reinstatement into the Jesuit order. Jalics accepted, but Yorio did not."And this: "The priests complained of Bergoglio to Superior General Pedro Arrupe in Rome. But they had already been expelled from the Jesuit order, allegedly due to contact with woman and 'conflicts of obedience.'"http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=79332And if only Arrupe could have expelled them from the Society, why didn't Thomas Reese mention that in his NCR article? He said, "Contrary to rumor, [Bergoglio] did not throw them out of the society and therefore remove them from the protection of the Society of Jesus. They were Jesuits when they were arrested. Yorio later left the Society but Jalics is still a Jesuit today, living in a Jesuit retreat house in Germany." http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/francis-jesuits-and-dirty-warReese could have put an end to the "rumor" immediately by simply providing chapter and verse from canon law and the constitutions of the order that say it is impossible for a provincial to expel a member, etc.Agree that the "note" is strange. Who were the women religious with whom Jalics was . . . doing whatever he was doing? Were they disciplined? Did they survive the dirty war?
The idea that Jesuits in the 70s/80s in Latin America were considered to have gone off the rails because they'd put themselves in danger by working with the poor seems not very believable given the response of Arrupe to threats made against Jesuits there. Hence the number of well respected Jesuit martyrs of that time/place.
Here is another view which claims Verbitsky is doing the Kirchen's governments bidding. Here are some relevant paragraphs.Instead the Kirchner government's pit bulls in journalismmen such as Horacio Verbitsky, a former member of the guerrilla group known as the Montoneros and now an editor at the pro-government newspaper Pagina 12immediately began a campaign to smear the new pontiff's character and reputation at home and in the international news media.The calumny is not new. Former members of terrorist groups like Mr. Verbitsky, and their modern-day fellow travelers in the Argentine government, have used the same tactics for years to try to destroy their enemiesanyone who doesn't endorse their brand of authoritarianism. In this case they allege that as the Jesuits' provincial superior in Argentina in the late 1970s, then-Father Bergoglio had links to the military government.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732407770457836270194703593...
I admit that I am not a very tech-savvy guy. So I understand that there may be a technical reason for what I want to ask about here.I can see the website feature that allows me to print out Eduardo Penalver's lengthy opening statement to this thread, in which he quotes Prof. Massey's comments at length. I have printed out Eduardo's lengthy opening statement.However, I do NOT a comparable website feature here that would allow me to print out all the comments in this thread, as I would like to be able to do.So could the powers that be who are in charge of this website possibly add a new print-out feature that would allow us to print out all the comments on a given thread?As I say, I know that I do not know the technicalities that would be involved.
Thomas, Right click and click print.
Thanks for sharing more information on a very difficult question. I still am not sure how to respond, though I would have hoped that the future pope would have been more forthright in support of the poor and in opposition to government repression. Sad to say, too many church leaders take the careful road in difficult times.For another perspective I have translated an interview with Jesuit theologian Jon Sobrino who escaped martyrdom with his companions in El Salvador. http://hermanojuancito.blogspot.com/2013/03/jon-sobrino-on-pope-francis.... original Spanish is here: http://www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.com/2013/03/16/sociedad/estado/bergoglio-n... how the headline misquotes Sobrino, making the future pope seem insensitive to the poor. This is something that needs to be avoided in the current flap.
I've read a good deal about this issue and I have come to a couple of conclusions. First is that we may never know exactly what went on. Second, I am inclined to agree with Fr. Reese's assessment that some people are saints and martyrs, some are collaborators and most just do what they can and try to keep their heads down. While in a perfect world, we would like to think that a future pope would have stood up to the junta, in the real world he did not, but rather, chose to act in a very human way. He did what he felt he could do without putting himself at too much risk.
Thanks, Mr. Dunn - well said. May I add:- as others have remarked - we have a journalist who appears to have an ax to grind - other sources?- as John Page said well - guessing at the age of 39 and faced with two of his own priests demanding to leave the Jesuits, it was a confusing time and the issue may have had more to do with community needs, issues, etc. than a focus on prophetic proclamations at that time. Agree - as provincial, he may have given them communications about dismissal but that would have to be confirmed from Rome. That takes time - some planned and deliberate to allow passions to cool; some unplanned - it just happens. This would have been a final step in negotiations - guessing that there were passions on both sides- some compare to Romero - keep in mind that El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua were each different. Romero at the age of Bergoglio was an ardent conservative, part of the hierarchy aligned with regimes, etc. It took a conversion experience late in life for Romero's stand- the same goes for those quoting liberation theology - liberation theology means different things and how to live and implement were expressed differently even in the same countries.
"It is easier to disintegrate an atom than disintegrate a malicious story" Albert Einstein
Jim Dunn, Thanks for your comments. I would just add - While in a perfect world, we would like to think that a future pope would have stood up to the junta - such a stand makes it more likely he would not have survived to be pope.
"While in a perfect world, we would like to think that a future pope would have stood up to the junta, in the real world he did not, but rather, chose to act in a very human way. He did what he felt he could do without putting himself at too much risk."Based on what is being reported, I'm not prepared to damn him with this faint praise.
1) It's interesting that Pope Francis identifies Jorge Luis Borges, who also lived in Buenos Aires, as one of his favorite authors (along with Dostoevsky). Borges was also judged guilty of the crime of "not doing enough." Until "enough" is specified the charge is an apparently irresistibly cheap one and grossly irresponsible, IMHO.2) For those who want to make sure they are doing "enough" now here's a suggestion relevant to abuses from both leftist and rightist regimes:"Church-organized human-rights groups and justice-and-peace commissions became common features in Central America, Chile, and elsewhere in Latin America during the military dictatorships of the 1980s, and they were indispensable to advancing rights and freedoms. We need similar groups in many Middle Eastern, Asian, and African countries today. If the promise of Dignitatis Humanae is to be fulfilled, it is crucial that the laity be trained to document religious persecution and other human-rights abuses."http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/342902/persecution-and-pope-nina-...
Jim Pauwels,It was not my intent to damn him and I hope it didn't come out that way. My view is that he was very human-- not evil, but not saintly. And that actually gives me some hope for this papacy.
"He did what he felt he could do without putting himself at too much risk.Or maybe he did what he thought was best for the safety of the entire Jesuit Community in Argentina and this was his primary responsibility.
Jim Dunn - I also have a lot of hope for this papacy, and I'm glad you're able to draw hope from these historical events.
"Thomas, Right click and click print."I think between the right click and "print" one has to click on "select all.""While in a perfect world, we would like to think that a future pope would have stood up to the junta, in the real world he did not, but rather, chose to act in a very human way. He did what he felt he could do without putting himself at too much risk."Pius XII redux?
Jim - there is no comparison between the events in Nazi Germany, Pius XII who was the Vatican agent who signed the Vatican-Germany concordat, and the years that built up to WWII and the Argentine dirty war and the role of Bergoglio over a small Jesuit province.BTW - the German concordat sold the German Democratic Party and most catholic bishops down the river in the name of Vatican politics. And this was years before any hint of the holocaust.Have you given any thought to the reality that Bergoglio may have wanted to keep his Jesuit priests from being aligned with either side but especially guerillas who were committing atrocities and thus weakening, if not destroying any credibility that he would have had as provincial?
Surely all of this matters greatly. As I understand it, the Catholic belief is that the Cardinals-Elector seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in selecting the Pope. Their discernment of the guidance of the Spirit then is a central issue.Perhaps the proper way to look at the Argentine situation in the 1970s comes from the choice of Francis of Assisi as an inspiration for the new Pope. Francis was one of a long line of the Churchs greatest human servants Paul, Augustine and Francis are known even to me - whom we remember as guidance in our lives not for their youth and early actions (quite the contrary), but for what they became. Those who have not had to work in time and place of war typically misunderstand what that involves, and how difficult it can be to return to the world ready and able to contribute positively. That is not an excuse for wrong actions in time of war, just a reminder that we are should be slow to judge.Were the Conclave to have selected a true fascist, a betrayer of his companions, we would have a terrible dilemma: how could the Holy Spirit have led the Electors in that path? If the Conclave, instead chose a man who has used the hard lessons of his youth to help him formulate a life of service and humility, an understanding of how the Church can serve in todays world, we (all Christians and indeed all people of good will) will celebrate the epiphany offered to, and discerned by, the Conclave in 2013.Mark
Gratitude to John Page, Gerelyn, Bill deHaas and many other commenters. The range of information is very helpful. Such a full airing of the record with comparisons of sources will hopefully resolve some questions. My faith in Pope Francis is sustained, though it is certainly instructive how the charges may be used. Someone mentioned too many "if's" and I agree.I am more and more convinced that Horatio Verbitsky, former member of the Montoneros guerilla group, publisher now of the newspaper Pagina 12, and inveterate critic of Pope Francis, lacks credibility. Argentine president Kirchners government is now pressuring merchants, under threat of reprisals, not to buy advertising in newspapers. The only newspapers that aren't on track to be financially ruined by this intimidation are those that the government controls and finances through official advertising, like Mr. Verbitsky's Pagina 12. Argentines refer to the paper as "the official gazette" because it so reliably prints the government's line. Intellectually honest observers with firsthand knowledge of Argentina under military rule (1976-1983) are telling a much different story than the one pushed by Mr. Verbitsky and his ilk. One of those observers is Adolfo Prez Esquivel, winner of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. Last week he told BBC Mundo that "there were bishops that were complicit with the dictatorship, but Bergoglio, no." As to the charge that the priest didn't do enough to free junta prisoners, Mr. Prez Esquivel said: "I know personally that many bishops who asked the military government for the liberation of prisoners and priests and it was not granted." Former Judge Alicia Oliveira, who was herself fired by the military government and forced into hiding to avoid arrest, told the Argentine newspaper Perfil last week that during those dark days she knew Father Bergoglio well and that "he helped many people get out of the country." In one case, she says there was a young man on the run who happened to look like the Jesuit. "He gave him his identification card and his [clergy attire] so that he could escape." Ms. Oliveira also told Perfil that when she was in hiding at the home of the current minister of security, Nilda Garr, the two of them "ate with Bergoglio." As Ms. Oliveira pointed out, Ms. Garr "therefore knows all that he did." Graciela Fernndez Meijide, a human-rights activist and former member of the national commission on the disappearance of persons, told the Argentine press last week that "of all the testimony I received, never did I receive any testimony that Bergoglio was connected to the dictatorship."http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732407770457836270194703593...
Carolyn, thank you for running this down so comprehensively!
For more context, there were articles yesterday about Francis supporting the canonization process for Franciscans killed in the Dirty Wars:http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130319/pope-backed-canonizat... at the Vatican Inside of La Stampa, says that Francis expressed a desire that these be the first people he beatifies, while other articles cite inaction by Bergoglio.As I understand it, the Jesuits were kidnapped in May 1976 and released 5 months later. The Franciscans were kidnapped in July 1976 and killed that day. Their bishop was forced off the road coming back from a service for the three victims, and killed. This bishop had a long history of involvement with unions and other groups promoting change in Argentina.
This may be too late, but is relevant:Priest kidnapped by junta: not denounced by popehttp://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/03/20/3392160/priest-kidnapped-by-..."The fact is: Orlando Yorio and I were not denounced by Father Bergoglio."(Fr. Francisco) Jalics said "false information was spread" at the time that he and Yorio had gone to the slums because they were part of a guerrilla movement - and he suspects those rumors were the reason why the priests weren't freed immediately."I myself was once inclined to believe that we were the victims of a denunciation," Jalics said. But "at the end of the 90s, after numerous conversations, it became clear to me that this suspicion was unfounded. It is therefore wrong to assert that our capture took place at the initiative of Father Bergoglio."


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6 Depraved Sexual Fetishes That Are Older Than You Think
Bizarre sexual fetishes are a staple of the human psyche--most everyone has them, and with the arrival of Internet porn, all the walls came crumbling down. Suddenly, everyone everywhere could share their sick, nasty fantasies with the entire world, safe under a veil of anonymity.
But the Internet by no means invented these things. As it turns out, they've been around way longer than that stain in your Honda.
#6. Tentacle Rape - Late 18th Century
We love to mock "tentacle porn," and Japan for inventing it. If this is your first day on the Internet, just know tentacle porn is one of the Internet's most beloved methods of making young people terrified of sex, and it is precisely what it sounds like: women being raped by tentacles (usually in cartoons).
The modern tentacle rape genre was created by Toshio Maeda, whose manga Urotsukidoji "created what might be called the modern paradigm of tentacle porn," which we suppose in Japan is actually seen as an accomplishment rather than grounds for a sexual assault conviction. According to Maeda, he started the practice in order to get around Japan's strict censorship laws, which forbade the depiction of a penis but did not forbid penetration by anything else.
Bet they regret that.
For men, the fetish appeals to those who enjoy seeing women humiliated and subjugated by something that isn't even human. For women, the fetish appeals to those who've secretly always wanted to have sex with Squiddly Diddly.
While Maeda may have created the modern tentacle rape, he wasn't the inventor--not even close. Maeda was preceded by Katsushika Hokusai, an artist from the late 18th and early 19th century. Hokusai was the artist of the "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," an internationally recognized series of prints that earned him fame both locally and globally. Also: he liked him some tentacles.
Hokusai's "The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife" is speculated to be the first instance of tentacle erotica, so by all means don't click that link if you're at work, there are children present or you have a soul.
But before you go calling Japan a nation of psychotic fish diddlers, check out "Tentacles of Desire: The Man Who Loved Cephalopods." Contained within is the story of Joshua Handley, an English artist in the late 19th century whose travels to Japan resulted in an obsession with tentacle erotica.
Handley attempted multiple times to publish some of it in England, even coming up with some of his own to add to the table. People were appalled--not by the tentacles, but at the notion that the women in the stories were actually enjoying themselves, because for some reason rape would make it much less disgusting.
#5. Autoerotic Asphyxiation - 17th Century
Experts say that on the list of most frequent causes of embarrassing deaths, autoerotic asphyxiation ranks just below tequila and above backyard wrestling. While the term "sex accident" may sound awesome--like a high speed collision with a tractor trailer made of nudity--the reality of it is hotel staff discovering your body strangled to death and clutching your genitals in a kung fu grip.
Autoerotic asphyxiation is just a big-city scientist term for "masturbating while strangling yourself." And it's more common than you'd think: according to ABC News and the FBI, roughly 500 to 1000 young men accidently die each year during autoerotic asphyxiation, though we're curious why the FBI is involved in this figure.
If you were thinking the practice was accidentally discovered in some 1980s S & M club, you're wrong. Erotic asphyxiation goes back to the 1600s, when it was used as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, presumably because the patient in question would rather be dead than go on living.
If you're wondering how in the hell they connected "strangling" with "boners," the answer is every bit as terrifying as you're probably guessing. The practice started when observers at public hangings noticed that male victims often sported an erection after death, sometimes even ejaculating at the moment of. Wikipedia even has an article on "death erections," which the editors at Cracked have already claimed as the name of their upcoming metal band side project.
"Ghost Boner" was already taken.
#4. Foot Fetishism - 13th Century (or Earlier)
Put simply, the foot fetish is a sexual attraction to feet, be they wrapped up in stockings or bare in all their sweat-pruned glory.
Try to picture all the boners we just created.
Foot fetishism has many forms, and can range from simple kissing and licking to full on penis massages. Many celebrities are self-confessed foot fetishists, including Jay Leno, so if you want to take a moment and ponder that, we'll wait.
And while there are many, many websites and lots of YouTube videos supplying wank material for foot lovers, you probably could make a good living selling the same material a thousand years ago.
These aren't for the beach.
The first mention of foot fetishism we can find dates back to 1220 AD. Experts think the fetish got its start due to fear of STDs (history records show a lot more foot lovers during syphilis epidemics, like those of the 16th and 19th centuries). Keep in mind that back then, pretty much everything in the world gave you some version of the plague, let alone the festering bog of some peasant's vagina. Clearly, blistered gangrenous feet were the refined solution, because you can't get AIDS from a foot. (Or can you? We really have no idea).
Some foot porn, circa 1926.
As it turns out, the list of historical foot fetishists reads like the A-Team of literature. F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom you may remember as the author of that one book that you pretended to read in high school, had a foot fetish, as did Thomas Hardy, who wrote that other book we didn't read. Know who else is on the list? Fucking Casanova, a man whose name has literally become a phrase meaning "guy who spends more time inside vaginas than outside of them".


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9:00pm - 9:20pm Silent Art Auctions ends and Raffle Drawing Commences. Click here to volunteer!
9:10pm - 9:40pm Thunderground Collective, Music
9:40pm - Late SBVRSV, DJ
10:00pm We need you to help clean the space! (Click here to sign up.)
Sticker and Patch Exchange
Bring the random stickers and stitched patches you have laying around to trade!
$10 per Raffle Ticket
$25 for 3 Raffle Tickets
Free raffle ticket with $15 T-Shirt Purchase
Day of the event only
Drawing takes place at 9:00pm.
3 People Needed for handling raffle ticket sales throughout the evening.
Volunteer to help with the raffle here.
All winners will be posted to Noisebridge-Announce E-mail List, and need not be present during the drawing.
Winners can give their prize to someone else as a gift.
Prizes and Services you can WIN in the Raffle
Please add to the prizes, if you feel you can!
|Service offered
|Name of provider
|Email of provider
|2 hours of personal instruction for learning to solder -- free cool kit included.
|Mitch Altman
|maltman23 AT hotmail DOT com
|60 minute personal drum lesson, free drumsticks and soda (or tea) included
|sundquistjames AT gmail DOT com
|Your service
|Your name
|Your email
Tables and Demonstrations at the Fundraiser
Please add your own table demonstration, and invite your friends! Your table should be setup and ready to go at 4pm.
|Table or Demonstration Reserved
|Name of provider
|Email of provider
|Make your own Juggling Supplies
|Judith Finelli
|judyfinelli AT gmail.com
|Your Table or Demonstration
|Your name
|Your email
Volunteer Sign-up
Help with Morning (12pm) Cleaning, Setup and/or Teardown on Saturday, March 30. Please add your name to this list if you can commit to And please indicate if you are committing to 12pm Cleanup, 3pm Setup, 10pm Teardown, or both for setup and teardown.
List of Volunteers
Volunteer Raffle Sign-up
Help Sell Raffle Tickets between 6pm and 9pm on Saturday, March 30. You will simply help sell tickets and t-shirts. Please add your name to this list if you can commit to helping during Shift 1 (5:45pm-7:15pm) or Shift 2 (7:15-9:00pm).
List of Volunteers
- Your Name Here - Your Shift
What Else Do We Need?
Help with the following
- Add your own table (at no cost) to promote your interests throughout the event.
- Volunteer for space security, general cleanup, setup and teardown, raffle ticket sales.
- Donate your art for the auction!
- Help with food!
- Offer a raffle prize!
- Help us expand Bitcoin support!
- Bring stickers and patches for the exchange!
- Teach a series of quick, short intros to Screenprinting, Lasercutting, Vinyl Cutting, or Makerbots.
Check out the event discussion page if you want to contribute to the planning of the event.


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Today in Tweet Beat, Brody Jenner is doing his part to make sure that marijuana is legalized for recreational use in California. Plus, Danielle Staub is still trying to get her own show.
The chicest thing you can do today is VOTE! Have you guys gone to the polls yet? xoRZ
If you don't vote you're a dick.
Look at my little politician! She's running for student council VP. Go Gia! http://www.twitpic.com/338wmy #electionday
Definition of a person not voting today: a-pathetic person
Have you...? http://twitpic.com/33aipr
Meeting went great ~ my team and producers made one thing very clear ....... "I'm Danielle Staub for a reason "
Next stop in my day....... 10AM production meeting for MY Show network to be announced ~
Enjoy this pic of my nemesis @RyanSeacrest. BUT notice the pic he's holding of Maggie. GOT HER! http://plixi.com/p/54552104
Abstained from food yesterday already feel thinner. Couldn't join weight watcher's they wouldn't accept my credit card. What's that about?
Who said I don't have a heart. Lol http://plixi.com/p/54573845


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How you guys balance your work life and personal life. Being a developer, I'm finding it very difficult to find out how to balance it. If I concentrate on work, I lose many things in my personal life and vice versa.
It would be great if you guys could give me some pointers or throw light on how to balance it.


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Friendships 'matter' beyond Facebook
Book details how women crave honest intimate pals
In her new book, "She Matters: A Life in Friendships," (Scribner, 272 pages, $24) Susanna Sonnenberg relates several gasp-worthy anecdotes, all of them illuminating a truism all women understand: Friends matter.
Sonnenberg, the Montana-based memoirist of "Her Last Death," says she had always given great consideration to the way women connected with each other. But in the age of social media, she says, "I started to think about the word 'friend,' which had been so overused and diluted by Facebook. I began to think, 'Well, what is friendship?'"
But Sonnenberg, whose essays have appeared in Elle, O, the Oprah Magazine and Parenting, was not interested in social science or journalism. Her method has been to write through personal exploration and revelation. That makes "She Matters" an often blisteringly candid, delicately articulated and shockingly raw book. The stories of friendships she tells are her own, and Sonnenberg does not always come off well in them.
"I write very personally partly because I feel that's the realm I have complete authority in," she says via telephone. "I trust that I can illuminate that. I don't trust that I can speak for a larger truth. But I believe that the personal is the universal. If you can speak the truth of your own experience, that can be illuminating to others about theirs. When we open up about our deepest thoughts, we give people permission to do the same."
So we learn about women who engulfed Sonnenberg, and women who disillusioned her, girlfriends, roommates, fellow young mothers, older, maternal women, women who schooled Sonnenberg in the art of being glamorous, maternal, or sexual.
We learn, too, of Sonnenberg's often desperate, compensatory lust for friendship, which can burn some women out. "Not everything, Susanna, has to be discussed, dissected, investigated," she chides herself.
"I lunged for intimacy, for the reassurance 'I like you! Do you like me? but I always grabbed for it too soon, thinking a lot equaled intimacy, and 'a lot' never seemed like enough anyway," she writes. "This made the girl quickly awful, at once too significant, and it probably made me awful, to them, my alarming, unexplained hungers. We ignited, large, and flamed out."
Sonnenberg says she has never been the kind of a woman to travel in a pack. "I know lots of people who are able to be friends in groups," she says. "I never can do that and I'm always envious of it. I think there are people who just don't demand a huge amount from interpersonal relationships and that's not me."
When it comes to friendship, Sonnenberg writes of needing a singular, intense closeness. "When I wanted a friend," she writes, "I wanted her across a table. Confide, reveal, dish, commiserate, then go. For strife, I coped on my own or with one dedicated other, didn't want a chorus."
Sonnenberg's deep need for female connection, she concedes, undoubtedly stems from her own toxic relationship with her manipulative, often drug-addled mother, about whom she wrote in the memoir "Her Last Death."
"She was a very intense, intoxicating, confusing pathological liar," Sonnenberg says of her mother, from whom she was estranged. "She used drugs heavily and that's confusing. She sexualized every experience. She was always really, really, really fabulous and dazzling and seductive and did love me very much."
But the drugs and alcohol, the frequent romances and serial disappointments, predisposed Sonnenberg to a need for more fulfilling relationships with women.
"One job of a mother is to help form self and self-esteem in a child," said Sonnenberg, the married mother of two boys. "If a mother doesn't do that then the child is always questing because there's an unfilled center. I think I didn't really know how to connect with women. I stumbled around all these relationships and had to think, 'How do you build the interior self and make those important connections?'"
So she found friends like Patricia, whose story opens the book, with whom Sonnenberg connected as a young mother and later reconnected after Patricia had moved away and then back to Montana.
"Uninhibited with her intimacies, Patricia assured me of a way to be the right woman and right friend," Sonnenberg writes. "She didn't demand more or prepare for less. She gave me a closeness I hadn't know how to have without it being awful."
Sonnenberg, who did not use real names in the book, then relates a powerful story of being emotionally neglected by this "buoyant older sister" when her son was born, a carelessness that deeply wounded her. "Patricia strains to remember why, 10 years ago, she hadn't come," Sonnenberg writes. "As she reconstructs daily history out loud, I feel dumb. For so long I'd wanted apology and explanation, but now that I've asked for them, I find neither matters at all."
"She Matters" has been largely applauded by critics. The New York Times praised "its imaginative narrative structure, its arresting prose, its raw honesty." The Boston Globe wrote the book, "artfully reveals the depth and gravity of love between women as they make sense of the changing and often treacherous emotional and logistical terrain of their fast-moving lives."
At 47, Sonnenberg says she has learned that the key to friendship is "to have compassion for yourself, have compassion for the other person and understand that ruptures will happen. I believe it's how we repair those ruptures that deepen the friendship."
The advent of social media, she says has "horribly" affected the kinds of intimate friendships about which she writes.
"We have become completely consumed with ourselves and we've lost the recognition of accountability in social interaction, of the plainest forms of mutual empathy and support," she says, "because our relationships with our friends are often confined to our screens, and they're our screens and we get it into our minds that we're forging something by all this shared information without actually experiencing them. But it's crap. It has nothing to do with tenderness or trust."
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time {stats}
time creates the vector of times at which a time series was sampled.
cycle gives the positions in the cycle of each observation.
frequency returns the number of samples per unit time and
deltat the time interval between observations (see
time(x, ...) ## S3 method for class 'default': time((x, offset = 0, ...) cycle(x, ...) frequency(x, ...) deltat(x, ...))
- x
- a univariate or multivariate time-series, or a vector or matrix.
- offset
- can be used to indicate when sampling took place in the time unit.
0.5the middle and
1the end of the interval.
- ...
- extra arguments for future methods.
These are all generic functions, which will use the
tsp attribute of
x if it exists.
time and
cycle have methods for class
ts that coerce the result to that class.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
require(graphics) cycle(presidents) # a simple series plot plot(as.vector(time(presidents)), as.vector(presidents), type = "l")
Documentation reproduced from R 3.0.2. License: GPL-2.


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At what stage of the SSL/TLS handshake is the DHE and RSA used and what is the purpose of using a pre-master secret when you could just use RSA to exchange the symmetric key (i.e. AES) for further communications. I am confused how DHE, AES and RSA fuse into the SSL/TLS handshake process. Is there a handshake with purely RSA, purely DHE or both.
You can use RSA to exchange the keys, But the problem is, it does not provide perfect forward security. This is what may happen if you use RSA for key exchange. If someone is able to store your SSL session and if he can get the server private key, He can get the secret key generated by the SSL session. So he can decrypt the entire SSL session.
The SSL/TLS handshake consists of a series of messages which do keyexchange and (usually) authentication together. See rfc5246 or its predecessors or Wikipedia for details. The handshake actually results in one "premaster secret" and one "master secret" which is then used to derive multiple keys: an encryption key for each direction (for an algorithm that may be AES or something else), an IV for each direction for suites that need it (which is all CBC suites in protocol versions before TLSv1.1), and a HMAC key for each direction for suites that need it (which is everything except the GCM and CCM suites in TLSv1.2). See How key materials are generated in SSL V3 from master secret and What is the purpose of four different secrets shared by client and server in SSL/TLS? .
The original, and still common, keyexchange method is RSA, sometimes emphasized as akRSA. The server sends a certificate containing an RSA (public)key; the client validates the cert and uses the publickey to RSA encrypt the random premaster secret. The server proves correct decryption (and is authenticated) with the Finished message. It is optional for the server to request client authentication; if so the client sends its own (RSA) cert and uses its matching privatekey to (RSA) sign the ClientKeyExchange, but this is rarely used. This is "purely" RSA.
DHE is used in conjunction with a signing certificate, which can be either RSA or DSA. The server sends its cert which client validates, and also its DH group and ephemeral publickey signed under its cert; client generates its ephemeral key in the same group and sends that, plus its cert and signature if client authentication is used.
There is also a method to use DH keyagreement without certificates and authentication, which is in effect ephemeral, but SSL/TLS doesn't call it that, it calls it DH-anon instead. This is usually a bad idea; many people imagine only passive eavesdroppers and think they only need encryption, but in today's internet active attacks of many kinds are widespread and if you don't use authentication you probably aren't secure. You could view this as "pure" DHE even though it isn't called that.
There are also elliptic-curve variants ECDHE-{RSA,ECDSA} and ECDH-anon. The handshake sequence, and security properties, are the same, only the actual crypto computations are different. These are technically optional but in fact nowadays widely implemented and becoming more popular to use.
And there are also 'static' methods (DH and ECDH, no E or anon) which use long-term [EC]DH keys instead of ephemeral ones. This requires certs for the static keys (and preagreement on the group or curve) which is less convenient, and these methods don't seem to be used at all on the public net.
Finally, there are some methods that don't use publickeys at all: Pre-Shared Key and Secure Remote Password. These basically work only in a private net (or virtual one) and aren't seen on the public net.
AES or other data cipher like 3DES or RC4 is not used in the handshake. It is used for data after the handshake.
Contrary to @mirabilos for [EC]DHE methods the ephemeral key material IS signed under the server cert and the client cert if client auth used. Not for the -anon methods, which are designed not to authenticate.


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I'll be at Intervention7 this September!
We STILL seem to have a RANDOM ARCHIVE GLITCH where clicking on the next comic will take you to the next comic page, but oddly display a comic from a totally different date. Hitting Refresh sometimes helps.
Comic for Monday 02/06/06
Many thanks to Baloun (TheVoices) for reenacting the part of the moron rogue. Yes, this really happened.
Comic for Tuesday 02/07/06
Thanks to Jacktheblade and the Labhaoise for helping illustrate this very crucial PSA.


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Artistic or Photorealistic Photography
for All HDR Lovers
Hydra is a superb and easy to use piece of software. It has an amazing range of controls. It is easy to use. What more do you want?
Express & Pro
Tone Mapping
What is HDR?This certainly happened to you: you went abroad, and took many pictures. You came back home, and were somewhat disappointed when you looked at the photographs. They were slightly different from what you remembered. You might have thought: "I am not that good at taking pictures..." And what if the issue was due to something else?
Something else is at stake indeed: camera sensors - how expensive they might be - are not sensitive enough compared to your eyes. They cannot cope with the full gamut of light because the sensor has physical limitations (which you don't have, as a human being). So, the difference you noticed was partly due to a technical issue. It also means you can use a technical trick to fix this: HDR photography!
High Dynamic Range Photography deals with combining different exposures of the same scene to create a stunning final image, which is called an HDR image.
Want to see some HDR examples made with Hydra? Have a look at this page.
How Does it Work?Take a series of regular photographs - some are underexposed and some are overexposed - either with a DSLR or a traditional point-and-shoot camera. Import these pictures into Hydra (up to 3 in the Express version, up to 7 in the Pro version), and let Hydra mix them. It will provide human eye-like perception to the output, the HDR image.
Express & Pro Versions2 versions of Hydra are available (each one with specific features). You can find the main differences between Hydra Express and Hydra Pro in the table below.
Each version has the same features whether it is sold on the Mac App Store, or through our store (i.e. Hydra Express on the Mac App Store is exactly the same application as Hydra Express on this website).
More information about Hydra Pro's exclusive features here.
Powerful Tone MapperWe developed a brand new tone mapper for Hydra 3 to make it much more powerful than the 3 tone mappers available in Hydra 2.
This new tone mapper allows real-time previewing on full resolution for the best possible user experience. Moreover, it is fully user-controllable with easy to understand settings.
12 Tone Mapping PresetsFor the 1st time, Hydra 3 offers you a series of 12 tone mapping presets. They will give a fresh new look to your images you might never have thought of.
- Photorealistic
- Artistic Black & White
- Contrasted Surrealism
- Soft Surrealism
- Arabesque Silhouettes
- Crispy Clouds
- Tinted Sky
- Reds Only
- Sepia Tones
- Retro
- Cyanotype
Numerous Adjustment ControlsNext to the presets, there are more new controls awaiting you:
- You can fine-tune the image by adjusting for each scope: the overall exposure, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, or by enhancing shadows & highlights, or details.
- Scopes are available for local, specific adjustments of the image: bright areas, dark areas, red tones, green tones, or blue tones.
- You can use probes to select areas based on distance, color, or brightness tolerance, and modify these areas. This custom scope selection with probes is only available in Hydra Pro.
- You can make use of snapshots to save several images with different presets in the current Hydra project, and easily compare these images.
And last but not least, Hydra 3 enables you to work with full resolution photographs which can be previewed in full resolution and in real time. As a photo lover, you'll really appreciate.
Aperture & Lightroom Plug-ins
Plug-in Compatible with Aperture 3Hydra talks with Aperture. You can directly import images from Aperture, or export them to Aperture (and the same for iPhoto by the way).
Hydra is also available as a plug-in compatible with Aperture 3. You can now create HDR images right from within Aperture.
Plug-in for Lightroom 3, 4 & 5Photoshop Lightroom users are going to rejoice. Hydra is also available as a plug-in for Lightroom 3, 4 & 5. So, you can use the pictures of the Lightroom library to render HDR images. Then, they will be automatically reimported into Lightroom and, if you wish, stacked with the input pictures.
How to Get the Plug-ins Working?Install the plug-in and the stand-alone version. Purchase a license of either Hydra Express or Hydra Pro, and register your copy of the stand-alone version (only if purchased through Creaceed's website). Keep the stand-alone version installed on your Mac. Then, you can use the plug-in with all features enabled.
User ExperienceHydra also features a gorgeous UI all Mac users will appreciate.
Moreover, you can work on high resolution images in full size previewing and in real time.
The image information display is now more eye-catching so that you can quickly access meaningful data like image format, image size, pixel dimensions, ISO sensitivity, focal length, aperture, or exposure duration.
We also implemented the multitouch zoom in/out which will help Trackpad users a lot, as well as refined many keyboard shortcuts for high-end users.
Optimized for MavericksHydra 3 was developed from the ground up to take advantage of the latest enhancements available in OS X. It includes the fullscreen mode, autosaving and versioning, as well as automatic termination and restart.
Share your HDR Images with the World!Following a huge number of user requests, Hydra 3 features many export options for...
★ locally saving your HDR images:
- You can of course export them to your iPhoto, Aperture, or Lightroom library.
- It is also possible to save them anywhere on your disk (Desktop, Documents...).
- post the HDR picture on your Facebook account (choose the image size, and add a caption)
- add the HDR picture to your Flickr account (choose the image size, add a caption, and indicate if the picture has to be made public or not)
- send a tweet with the HDR picture to your followers on Twitter (choose the image size, and write the message text)
- send it with the Mail application: the HDR image is automatically added to a new message.
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'In Touch' with David Callaghan (Looking Ahead to FY14 with Oracle Edition) Available on Demand Now!
By Ritu Chhibber-Oracle on Jul 17, 2013
Dear partners
We would like to say thank you to all of those who tuned in to watch the kick off edition of 'In Touch' PartnerCast last week. It was another great show!
If you didn't catch the show live, why not? You missed David and the studio team highlighting the new commercial opportunities for partners in FY14.
Plus the regional leaders from across EMEA sent updates on how they were doing and what they are looking forward to in FY14.
The latest episode is now available to watch on-demand via our YouTube playlist here:
We would love to know what you think of the 'In Touch' casts, so do send us an email with your thoughts and opinions to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kind regards,
Oracle EMEA Alliances & Channels Team


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I use my iPhone 4 to go jogging and at some point the built-in mic has gotten damaged and the only way to talk to people is via an earbud with mic.
I am looking for a desk charger which also has a high-quality mic so that I can take calls from my desk, hands-free. Does anyone know of a suitable product?