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President Juan Peron's feud with the Roman Catholic Church has raised a painful question of conscience for many an Argentine: Can a good Catholic possibly remain a good Peronista? Last week a Peronista member of the federal Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Adolfo Carena, announced that, as a lifelong Catholic of "sincere conviction." he was resigning from the Chamber in protest against the government's anti-church measures. The Peronista majority, flustered and angry, refused to accept Carena's resignation, instead voted to expel him for "lack of faith, loyalty and solidarity...
...national holidays.*The following day Cardinal Copello visited Peron, and rumors flew about that the two leaders had arranged a peace. But Peron & Co. soon punctured that wishful thought. The Ministry of Education abruptly accused Catholic schools of defrauding the government of $300,000 by padding payrolls. Sneered the Peronista newspaper Democracia: "These are the would-be monopolists of morality...
...places."* Whether or not Perón was sincere in billing the decree as a remedy for Argentina's worsening sex-offense problem, most Argentines looked upon the measure as a new 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...
Chipping & Sniping. Despite the flare-up of resistance-or perhaps because of it-Perón & Co. kept right on with the sniping. In the province of Córdoba, the legislature voted to withdraw all subsidies from Roman Catholic schools. In Buenos Aires, the Peronista newspaper Democracia called for the removal of 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...
...named, by name, three offending bishops and 21 priests who, he said, had been fomenting antistate activities; he promised to "take action against these people ..." Next day, as if on cue, young Peronistas began greeting priests in the streets of Buenos Aires as "Mr. Bullfighter." A Peronista paper printed pictures of the three bishops under the headline TO THE PILLORY. One of Perón's unions barred priests from attending union functions. Some of the priests named by Perón were fired from teaching and police-chaplain jobs...