Washington Post: By Nick Miroff, Published: March 19
HURLINGHAM, Argentina — Father Julio Cesar Grassi was a celebrity in the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. The young, dynamic, media-savvy priest networked with wealthy Argentines to fund an array of schools, orphanages and job training programs for poor and abandoned youths, winning praise from Argentine politicians and his superior, ArchbishopJorge Mario Bergoglio.
Grassi called his foundation Felices los Niños, “Happy Children.”
(Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) – The unkempt grounds of Felices los Niños in Hurlingham, Argentina, founded by Father Julio Cesar Grassi.
Yet in the years after Grassi’s conviction, Bergoglio — now Pope Francis — has declined to meet with the victim of the priest’s crimes or the victims of other predations by clergy under his leadership. He did not offer personal apologies or financial restitution, even in cases in which the crimes were denounced by other members of the church and the offending priests were sent to jail.
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