Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology In 1976, the school began admitting lay theology students (male and female), and these quickly formed the majority of students. In 1986, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since 13 March 2013 Pope Francis, spent a few months at the Sankt Georgen PTH to consult with professors on a dissertation project, however he has not further pursued the project. The 1993 college church and the 2005 classroom building are both notable works of modern architecture. In 2009 the "Institute for World Church and Mission" (IWM) (German: "Institut für Weltkirche und Mission") was founded. In liaison with the IWM stands the 2010 founded "Student
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