During the "Proceso" dictatorship of Argentina, the relatives and friends of people who had disappeared found that the Catholic Church had intimate contacts in the repression apparat (basically, the Navy and the political police units) and was able to find and free "desaparecidos". If my memory serves me well, Monsenor (Archbishop) Storni was one of the most effective. It is difficult to describe the power over life and death wielded by this high priest in Argentina 1975.
Now I read that Edgardo Storni had been investigated for allegations of sexual abuse on 47 young seminarists and that today he was condemned for violation of Gunther something, a seminarist. The influential Archbishop was, apparently, a serial male rapist. Under Argentine law, he may not be tried because of his age (over 70).
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It's worth noting that part of the reason why leftism is so rampant in LA is that it is spread by the Jesuits. So the Argentine state had to fight off a mass leftist movement inspired at least partly by the Roman Church. Then once the state was trying to kill Marxists, the Church somehow ended up getting its hands in that too, deciding who lived and who died.
This incident allows me to state one last point. Latin civilization is not Western civilization. The modern era as we know it began with the Protestant Revolt that broke the shackles of Rome. In fact, the modern era could be called the Protestant ascendancy in that it has forced otherwise Catholic countries to behave and try to act civilized.
This difference in culture shows most vividly in Argentina, which due to its White blood should be the hope of the continent, but instead engages in the same economic mismanagement that the rest of LA engages in. As the US slowly becomes a Catholic country, the modern Protestant ascendancy will come to an end and the modern era will end too.
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