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...attack in his running feud with the Roman Catholic Church (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante). The Peronista paper Critica went out of its way to allege that 80% of the homosexuals arrested last week "had been educated in religious schools." Feuding & Fussing. Impatient of even mild opposition, Strongman Peron has been feuding with the church since last summer, when he became worried about clerical influence in labor unions and the possibility of a Roman Catholic political party. Since then, the cops have banned numerous Roman Catholic gatherings and jailed several priests. Scores of priests have lost government jobs as teachers...
...Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors had it that Peron was even getting ready to put an end to the special constitutional status of the Roman Catholic Church as the nation's official religion...
...Argentine government's running war of harassment against the Roman Catholic Church goes on, fueled by President Juan Peron's deep distaste for anything faintly resembling opposition. Last week the Interior Ministry banned a scheduled outdoor Mass and procession marking the end of the Marian Year. While a substitute indoor Mass was being celebrated at Buenos Aires' buff-colored cathedral, Peron and his top officials ostentatiously gathered at the airport to welcome Argentine Boxer Pascual Perez home from Japan, where he had won the flyweight (112-lb.) championship of the world. That same day, the Peron General...
...turnout at the cathedral-an amazing overflow crowd of more than 50,000 -obviously distressed Peron & Co. Rumbled Peron in a speech to the C.G.T. later in the week; "[Those who] are permanently opposed to our efforts and achievements are sometimes clothed as oligarchs, sometimes as priests, but they are always the same. The time has come to take the pruning shears and cut them off ... If I were dictator I would do the job myself. [Instead] when the people have had enough they will take the necessary measures, and in that event, I will be at the head...
...will try to get himself voted sole President again. Campaigning with his favorite lapel decoration, a sprig of pine, Batlle Berres promised simply to encourage industrialization and higher farm production. His record shows that he approves of Uruguay's mild socialism, disapproves of his powerful Argentine neighbor Juan Peron, in general likes...