CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27631, 12 April 1955, Page 13

CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION

Campaign Grows In Argentina

(Rec. 7 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, April 10. Newspapers supporting President Peron today accelerated their campaign to separate Church and State in Argentina.

The object of the campaign is to eliminate the privileges enjoyed by Roman Catholicism as the State Church.

It is the outgrowth of a five-months dispute between the Peron regime and the Roman Catholic hierarchy. The newspaper “La Prensa,” published by the General Confederation of Labour, the backbone of President Perqn’s political support, says in a leading article that countries which have broken constitutional ties with Roman Catholicism have learned best to live in peace “through the absence of pretences and interference.”

El Lider,” which joined the fight for the separation'qf the Church and state yesterday, kept it up today. “El Lider” is controlled by the Minister of Justice (Mr Angel Gabriel Borlenghi) one of President Peron’s closest political advisers.

The third newspaper waging the fight for the separation of the Church and the State, the semi-official “Democracia,” announces that it will start a series of leading articles tomorrow entitled: “Subtle Enemies.”