Ever since he came to power, Argentine Strongman Juan Peroón has maintained an uneasy truce with the Catholic Church. In a country where more than 90% of the people are Catholics, no practical-minded dictator could do otherwise. But recently, Perón's press and unions began sniping at the clergy, and last week Juan Perón himself leaped in with a biting attack on several Catholic priests. Some Catholic organizations, he apparently feared, were forming an embryonic Christian Democratic Party to oppose him.
Perón first suavely made a careful distinction between the church and its priests....
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