WASHINGTON, D.C.–Starting a few days after a nuclear attack on the United States, all surviving Americans will be allowed to buy three pounds of meat or meat alternates a week. If there’s a bone in the meat, the weekly quota will be four pounds. Meat
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Msgr. Antonio Aguirre was furious. The Argentine police had just arrested Father Anibal Coerezza on charges of “subversion,” and there was little doubt about his fate. Coerezza works in Bishop Aguirre’s San Isidro diocese in suburban Buenos Aires, where four laymen
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Travel posters and guidebooks notwithstanding, Paraguay’s much-touted Jesuit missions are no place for a tourist. Not nowadays at least, with military checkpoints on every road and whole villages under siege. So frightened are the people in the region of the missions that
SANTIAGO, Chile — When 43 visiting bishops and priests were arrested in Ecuador last month, the Catholic Church was stunned. Though persecution of priests and nuns is becoming commonplace in Latin American countries, the arrest and expulsion of such high-ranking Churchmen, including four U.S. bishops,
ROME, Italy — A political-religious battle is under way in Europe that will shape the future of this continent as well as Latin America. U.S. interests in these countries also will be affected. Known in Europe as the “Catholic question,” the controversy started in 1972
