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PRESS RELEASE (2/04/2014)
Saturday, April 5, Nello Scavo will be at Loano to present his book “Bergoglio's list. Those saved by Francis during the dictatorship. The story never told” (2013, ed. Editrice Missionaria Italia).
The event, sponsored by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano, will take place, at 5:30 pm, at Council Chamber of Palazzo Doria. In dialogue with the author will be the journalist Graziella Frasca Gallo.
“We are honored," says Mayor Luigi Pignocca - to be able to host the presentation of the book that gave testimony to the commitment during the years of the Argentine dictatorship of then Cardinal Bergoglio to save those persecuted by the regime. The author's presence will help us delve deeper into the events of those dark years.”
“They are numerous," explains Councillor Remo Zaccaria - the stories told by journalist Nello Scavo in his book. The Avvenire newspaper reporter conducted a field investigation, in Argentina, reconstructing a list of those “saved” by Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, during the years of the desaparecidos. This book has already been distributed in forty countries and will soon become a film. Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, an Argentine dissident, signed the preface.”
The reporter Graziella Frasca Gallo who will introduce the author thus describes the volume, “Dense and “intense” book, in which in a sparse, journalistic style outlines a figure of a Cardinal who, in defiance of danger and without giving any prominence or publicity to his actions, acted during the dreadful period of Argentina's military dictatorship, saving and protecting human lives, families, priests.
The phenomenon of the desparecidos emerges page after page, in its tragic numerical immensity , as does the phenomenon of the prelates who openly backed the regime.
A reading that becomes more and more compelling: case after case, narrative after narrative, memory after memory.
A piece of history that needs to be better known and this book allows us to do so, just as it allows us to know more about the figure of Pope Francis who “had a terrible opinion of dictatorship...” and silently acted for the salvation of many.
Accompanying the volume are quotes from Amnesty International, the text of Cardinal Bergoglio's interrogation at the 2010 trial on the crimes of the military dictatorship, and a precise chronology on Jorge Mario Bergoglio's life.”{:}
