Catholic crimes exposed!
Recall what father Christian Von Wernich did during the Argentine dirty war where over 30,000 people went missing!
Wernich was the priest who heard the confessions of political prisoners, passed them on to the police, and then stood by and offered blessings as the detainees were tortured and/or killed.
In 2007, Father Christian von Wernich was tried and convicted on charges of complicity in seven murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings during Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship, in which an estimated 30,000 people died or disappeared.
The priest of course denied the charges and said his job was to provide pastoral care to police officers. They call it care do they!
Von Wernich, while wearing a bullet-proof vest, had compared himself to Jesus Christ in his testimony before a three-judge panel, was found guilty of all charges. He had participated, prosecutors said, in crimes that amounted to "genocide". Von Wernich told the court he had been doing "God's work".
What was the importance of this conviction?
After fleeing to Chile in 1993 under the name Christian González, von Wernich was tracked down and extradited to Argentina in 2003 after amnesty laws were overturned. His trial forced Argentina to confront the institutional complicity of the Catholic Church hierarchy during the dictatorship.
While his defense team argued he was a "Catholic scapegoat" who merely provided pastoral care, prosecutors and survivors presented evidence of his active collaboration with the church.
In fact there were numerous cases of priests attending torture sessions in clandestine detention centers. They watched the Catholic death squads and called it “God’s work.”
The military's ideological framework drew heavily from Catholic integralism — the belief that Argentine national identity was inseparable from Catholic Christianity and that the left were "enemies of the Argentine soul."