Pope is asked to make priestly celibacy optional
Source: Boston.com
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-22 09:53:20 -0700 | political-news
Argentina (AP) She uses a wheelchair and carries the weight of her 87 years, but Clelia Luro feels powerful enough to make the Roman Catholic Church pay attention to her campaign to end priestly celibacy. This woman, whose romance with...
High court to look at Daimler appeal
Source: Associated Press
Mercedes :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-22 09:04:09 -0700 | political-news
The Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal from automaker Daimler AG that seeks to shut down a U.S. lawsuit over allegations that its unit in Argentina played a role in that country's `dirty war" in the 1970s. The...
Comelec issues 72 notices to senatorial bets on illegal posters
Source: Inquirer.net
San Juan :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-22 01:21:56 -0700 | political-news
Philippines Buhay partylist and senatorial candidate Joseph Victor (JV) Ejercito had the most number of legal notices from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) regarding illegal campaign materials. In the latest tally of the Comelec law department on April 20, Buhay...
Santa Fe vet credits resource center for help
Source: SF Gate
Santa Fé :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-21 02:37:38 -0700 | political-news
FE, N.M. (AP) Vietnam veteran John Moore has lived in Santa Fe for 30 years, and for many of those years, he had steady work in construction...But then he got ill. "I couldn't work and make my payments," said Moore,...
Pope Francis' successor in Argentina assumes post
Source: The Boston Globe
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-20 18:58:49 -0700 | political-news
Argentina (AP) Argentine Mario Poli was inaugurated as the new archbishop of Buenos Aires on Saturday, taking over the post held by Jorge Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis. Poli, 66, was named to the position by Francis in late...
Puerto Rico debates legalizing marijuana use
Source: Boston.com
San Juan :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-20 12:37:10 -0700 | political-news
Puerto Rico (AP) Dozens of people are marching through Puerto Rico's capital in support of a recent bill filed by a former police chief that aims to legalize marijuana for personal use, unleashing an unprecedented debate in this conservative U.S....
Panelists named to select NM insurance regulator
Source: SF Gate
Santa Fé :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-19 16:52:10 -0700 | political-news
FE, N.M. (AP) Health care and insurance industry officials and a state legislator were named by Gov. Susana Martinez on Friday to a panel that will select New Mexico's newly independent insurance regulator. A nine-member committee will name the superintendent...
Argentines rally against government
Source: BBC
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-18 21:02:43 -0700 | political-news
Tens of thousands of people in Argentina are taking part in protests against the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Huge crowds marched through the capital Buenos Aires chanting slogans, banging pots and pans and waving banners. The protest...
‘Hitler's Pope' Archives Might be Opened Up: Report
Source: Epoch Times
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-18 18:26:20 -0700 | political-news
Pope Francis may declassify the role that was played by Hitler's Pope during the rule World War II-era regimes, including Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, it was reported. A close friend of Francis, Rabbi Abraham Skorka, who has known the...
Argentine leader criticizes media monopoly ruling
Source: The Boston Globe
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-18 11:28:06 -0700 | political-news
Argentina (AP) Argentina's president is criticizing a court ruling against the law she's been using against what she calls the monopoly power of her leading media opponent, Grupo Clarin. President Cristina Fernandez said Thursday that she's never seen anything like...
Pope 'grieved' by deaths, injuries in Boston blast
Source: The Day
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-16 11:52:19 -0700 | political-news
Francis expressed his condolences in a message Tuesday addressed to Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, a good friend of Francis' from the pope's time as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The explosions Monday killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and...
Buenos Aires Journal: Buenos Aires's Historic Heritage Slips Away
Source: The New York Times
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-15 18:35:18 -0700 | political-news
Buenos Aires Journal An Argentine Tradition Threatens to Crumble With City Architecture Anibal Greco for The New York Times Passengers on a La Brugeoise train in Buenos Aires. The retirement of the antique wooden train cars prompted local protests. As...
Southwest offers flights to four new cities from BWI
Source: Baltimore Sun
San Juan :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-15 10:12:41 -0700 | political-news
The airline now offers nonstop service between San Juan, Puerto Rico , and two Florida cities. Flights from Orlando and Tampa Bay to the Caribbean island began Sunday. Southwest also will begin flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Juan in...
Pope faces tough decisions as Vatican reforms loom
Source: Associated Press
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-13 09:42:26 -0700 | political-news
Pope Francis has spent much of his first month as pope charming ordinary Catholics with his ordinary yet extraordinary papal ways and making clear he is very much the boss when it comes to decisions as small as the shoes...
In Argentina, even the beer can be political
Source: Boston.com
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-04-12 17:58:26 -0700 | political-news
Argentina (AP) Argentina is famous for its bare-knuckled politics, with iconic figures like Gen. Juan Domingo Peron and his wife, Evita, and a history of union battles and leftist guerrilla uprisings. Now beer-makers in Buenos Aires are capitalizing on this...
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