Read a May 6, 2013 Rolling Stone article that analyses media’s effect on radicalism. It quotes John Horgan, director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at Pennsylvania State University, as downplaying the idea that young men can “self-radicalize” by watch YouTube videos and reading Al Qaeda magazines.”

James Aho was an emeritus professor of sociology at Idaho State University until he retired in December of 2010. Hew researches and writes on the relationship between religion and violence, especially among right-wing groups and individuals.

Read a critique of liberation theology in a 1994 article by Edward A. Lynch of Hollins College in Roanoke, Va., from the website CatholicCulture.org.

Read a March 14, 2013, Associated Press article in which Francis’ biographer labels as unfair the Dirty War allegations stirred up in the wake of the conclave.

Read a March 14, 2013, Religion News Service story about Francis and the shadow cast by the Dirty War.

Read a March 15, 2013, Associated Press story about the Vatican denouncing critics of Francis’ record during the Dirty War.

Read a March 15, 2013, Catholic News Agency article in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel says Francis had no ties to the Argentine dictatorship of 1976-83.

Read a March 15, 2013, Associated Press story about how Francis is viewed by the poor in Argentina, some of whom affectionately call him “the slum pope.”

Read a March 17, 2013, post on Liberation Theology on the website of America magazine by the Rev. Daniel Horan.