In 1976, during Argentina's dictatorship, the navy kidnapped priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics.

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Orlando Yorio, who reportedly accused Fr Bergoglio of effectively delivering them to the death squads by declining to publicly endorse their work, is now dead.

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Because they stayed in the barrio, Yorio and Jalics were kidnapped.

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Neither Father Yorio nor Mr. Verbitsky were available to comment Friday.

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Two Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Franz Jalics, were kidnapped from the slum where they worked, held for five months in an army torture center, then dumped, drugged and disoriented, in a barrio outside the capital.

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The main charge against Bergoglio, then a priest in his 30s, is that as the provincial, or superior, of the Society of Jesus in the country, he let the military know that he was suspending his protection of two troublesome left-leaning priests, Orlando Yorio and Franz Jalics, allowing them to be apprehended and detained and tortured for five months.

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