Daniel Politi

Maria Belen Chapur, the woman who won former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s heart and ended any chance he’d become the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, broke her long silence on their romance Friday, telling an online Argentine news outlet that she’s still getting used to the idea of living with an American politician.

A Jesuit priest whose kidnapping by the Argentine military in 1976 has raised the issue of what role newly named Pope Francis played in that country’s so-called “dirty war” said Friday that he was “reconciled to the events” and wished the pope well, but he did not explicitly absolve the pope of involvement in his detention.