25 February 2016, The Tablet

Three-way split


 
The Catholic Church and Argentina’s Dirty WarGUSTAVO MORELLO, SJ(OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 240 PP, £47.99)Tablet bookshop price £43.20 • Tel 01420 592974 Pope Francis may barely make it into the footnotes, but Gustavo Morello, his fellow Argentine Jesuit, is aware that interest in the Church’s stance during the so-called 1970s “Dirty War” has greatly increased since his election. An academic now at Massachusetts’ Boston College, Morello has years of experience researching and teaching at the Catholic University of Córdoba on Argentina’s decade of fratricidal violence between 1968 and 1978.He takes a very small canvas – the arrest and torture that year of five members of the La Salette order who lived in a formation house in
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