Fernando Carlos Maletti Fernando Carlos Maletti Fernando Carlos Maletti (born March 17, 1949) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche from 2001 until 2013, when he became bishop of Merlo-Moreno. Born in Buenos Aires, Maletti was ordained to the priesthood on November 24, 1973. On July 20, 2001, he was appointed bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche. Maletti received his episcopal consecration on the following September 18 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with bishop of Avellaneda-Lanús, Rubén Oscar Frassia, bishop of San Martín, Raúl Omar Rossi,
Esther Ballestrino In 1976 two of her sons, Manuel Carlos Cuevas and Ives Domergue, were kidnapped and they disappeared. Ballestrino was credited with helping found the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo which came out of other mothers of missing children who met at the Plaza de Mayo. The next year, her pregnant daughter Ana Maria Careaga was also abducted in December 1977 by the authorities and tortured. Ballestrino contacted her associate, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and asked that he come to give the last rites to a relative. The Catholic Bergoglio was surprised, as he knew that Ballestrino was a Marxist. When