It appears that Bergoglio is associated with CL, or Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation.)
This religious/political group supported Berlusconi. Bergoglio has spoken at its meetings and was the representative for its books at book fairs in Argentina (i.e. he represented the group to sell its books.) In turn, CL opposed Bergoglio's Jesuit opponent, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who stated the Catholic church is "200 years out of date," according to an article at The National Catholic Reporter.
CL is not a widely-known organization in the U.S. Opus Dei and The Legionaries of Christ (both reactionary right wing catholic factions - the first one founded by in Spain by a fascist priest) are better known here. But it is well established in 80 other nations.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/one-pope-francis-allegiances-might-tell-us-something-about-churchs-future
The CL is very popular among the hierarchy in the church. Those within (or formerly in) Catholicism, one of whom is now in the Episcopal Church since he was kicked out, claims JPII, Ratzinger, and Bergoglio are part of a counter coup among traditionalists after Vatican II - and that their authority is illegitimate because a Council carries greater authority than do individual popes and their pronouncements.
iow, among liberation theologists and those of similar left-leaning thought - the last forty-plus years of Catholicism have been illegitimate because the Popes have directly defied the Council's view of the positions that the church should hold or review.
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/16/is_pope_francis_a_fraud/
Those within the church who are involved in the politics of the governing say that the CL is the equivalent of Protestant Fundamentalism and Islamic Fundamentalism as regressive religious/political forces in the world.
...that came out of the work of The Fundamentalism Project, a program that offered a scholarly investigation into global conservative religious movements. Marty, who is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Appleby, who directs of Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, co-directed this project. (and is included in the first link, above.)
"CL boldly claims that the Church embodies authoritative truth that is binding on society at large. (i.e. no church/state separation, just as with other fundamentalisms we know.) States theologian and political scientist Dario Zadra in work for The Fundamentalist Project.
Its beliefs and practices offer a new religious and countercultural way of looking at modern society and culture. CL boldly claims that the Church embodies authoritative truth that is binding on society at large. By claiming the presence of Christ, the Church also claims divine authority -- a kind of inerrancy, not of the biblical text (as in Protestant fundamentalism) but of the Church.
"..they reject the modern insistence on "a freedom of conscience that excludes the religious attitude at its very root." Zadra explains that those who center their political and cultural ideas on human values rather than the living presence of Jesus Christ are considered "enemies of CL."
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