it was accused of collaborating with the military junta, led by jorge rafael videla and emilio masserale translator) in argentina, the military and the catholic church were inextricably linked. and like the great majority of the leaders in the catholic church, he believed that the dictatorship would bring order to the country in the face of so many subversives. (speaking spanish) (male translator) the bishops and bergoglio also believed that priests who lived among the people, in the slums, dissolved the jesuit identity, broke with authority, and gave a bad example to the rest of argentinean society. ♪ (male translator) when the military took over in 1976, everything related to liberation theology was seen as communist, and marxist. i was labeled marxist, which i never was. ♪ (narrator) for bergoglio, the priests' work with the poor had to be rooted in the gospel, not in any political ideology. ♪ (speaking spanish) (male translator) he was a very strict person, with ideas about pastoral work at that time that i would consider today to be quite conservative. pastoral work with the peopl