Word: copello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deliver by hand. He was ushered into the little white parish house beside Buenos Aires' church of Corpus Domini. In the pastor's study, tall, ruddy-faced Jose Maria Dunphy, 42, tore open the handsomely embossed envelope. The letter, signed by a secretary of Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, was curt and final. Father Dunphy was relieved of his parish duties, effective at once. "May God help you," the last line read...
...Catholic Argentina this was a sensation; gossip soon whispered that Peron, had asked his good friend Cardinal Copello, as a favor, to get rid of Dunphy. The Cardinal visited Dunphy at his church last fall and suggested-"very suavely," says Father Dunphy-that he ought to resign. Just before Christmas, police held the priest for eight hours while they tried to make him admit authorship of an anonymous pamphlet called "Liberty," "I am in accord with what it says," Dunphy assured them, "but it is not in my style, and I did not write...
When he was campaigning for the presidency, Juan Domingo Perón had had a lot of help from the Roman Catholic clergy. Some 500 priests stumped the hinterland; Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello issued a Perón-slanted pastoral letter. Last week, Perón paid...
...Copello letter, and the subsequent row over just what it meant, fanned a smoldering feud between Argentine liberals and the church. The liberals, mostly good Catholics themselves, think the church too powerful, too meddlesome and too expensive. The church, which still enjoys medieval prerogatives in Argentina, is loth to give an inch...
...Copello was supported by the many pro-Franco Spanish priests who have emigrated to Argentina since the Spanish Civil War. But there were dissidents, even within the church. One was famed Bishop Miguel de Andrea, who did not sign the pastoral letter. Instead, he took a slap at Peron demagoguery. To a group of graduating nurses, the Bishop gave a solemn warning: "It is a tragic error to sell liberty for a few social and economic advantages...