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Entry: Who's Infallible Here, Anyway? The Human Life Review Chooses Party Over Church Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/wars_and_rumors_of_war#5481 Post contents: @John Ball I am sorry that you have to leave the Catholic Church, but I understand why. It is probably the same reason why I will never be baptized in it, no matter how much sympathy I feel for it (While I do not dare compare myself to Simone Weil, in this I imitate her). My problem was with the political activity of the Church in Argentina, mainly that of Cardinal Caggiano, and his aiding and abetting the overthrow of the most decent President Argentina had in a long time, Dr. Arturo Illia. Had Illia been allowed to end his term we could have seen the political scene stabilized, with Peronists accepting the rules of the political game instead of going for the gun, and with the economy building up slowly and patiently. Instead there was a military coup with the idea of insituting a corporatist regime that would do the necessary social engineering to prevent "sinful" modernism taking over society. This coup had the full support of Cardinal Caggiano who envisioned a Franco like regime. One of the first actions of the new illegal government was to intervene the University and beat up professors and students who protested. It was called "The night of the long clubs". After this my parents who were University scientists decided to get out of Argentina, as did so many others, thus destroying an illustirous tradition of scietific research in Argentina. Caggiano blessed this. After this example that if you do not like what the Government does you can overthrow it, too many young people followed the lead, only on the Left. I blame all the blood, death and pain that followed on Caggiano. And because of that I cannot join a Church in which maggots like him achieve positions of power. Sent at: 2008 08 30