Word: peronistas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halting before the Congressional Palace, the crowd watched as leaders raised a blue-and-white Argentine flag and a yellow-and-white Vatican flag on the building's flagpole. Several agile demonstrators clambered up the scaffolding of a huge Peronista Party billboard and draped it with the Argentine and Vatican colors...
Announced Interior Minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghi: "The prelates had erred in assuming that a procession could be held on Saturday after permission had been given for Corpus Christi Day proper." On Saturday, the Peronista press and radio announced that the ceremonies had been called off. The government drastically slowed down service on streetcar, bus and subway lines leading toward the Plaza de Mayo, but the Catholics came anyway, some of them walking miles from their homes in the suburbs...
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...
...dozen priests were arrested, making a total of three dozen jailed since the conflict broke out last October. The Argentine Senate passed a bill to end the property-tax exemptions of churches, parochial schools and other denominational institutions. Both houses voted to abolish religious instruction in public schools. The Peronista legislators were unanimous, but the minuscule Radical Party minority in the Chamber (the Senate is 100% Peronista) voted against the measure...
...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...