Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cocks of Mexico City were crowing one morning last week, priests had begun their early orisons, when a guttural little group of government officials appeared at the door of 66-year-old Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores and demanded his person. The prelate, who somewhat resembles the present Pope, knew what to expect. As the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate (appointed 1929) he was the head & front of his church in Mexico. The Pope's encyclical Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul'') of last fortnight, complaining about the Mexican Government's treatment of the church, had stirred...
Rodriguez (TIME, Oct. 10). The Archbishop had heard of wild scenes in the Chamber of Deputies the night before-a peon crying "Long live the Pope!" from the gallery and being thrown out; a unanimous vote authorizing President Rodriguez to deport the Apostolic Delegate instanter. The Archbishop's callers, courteously enough, now commanded his presence at the Ministry of the Interior...
Twice before had Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores suffered exile from his native land for Mother Church. But never before had he been up in an airplane. His expression of dazed surprise changed to one of prayerful alarm as the plane, with two detectives and a kinsman of the Archbishop's aboard, swept him up over the mountains towards the coast...
...terror. That night they kept him in Tampico. Next day he was placed on a "special train" (engine and one car) guarded by 30 soldiers. They did not reach the border until close to midnight. A group of priests and U. S. officials were there to receive the Archbishop, forward news of his arrival to the Vatican, install the exile in a private home to await developments...
...will proceed with full energy to resolve definitely this problem, which has cost this nation so much blood and sacrifice. . . . "If the insolent, defiant attitude . . . continues, I am determined that the churches will be converted into schools and shops for the benefit of the nation's proletariat classes." Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Papal Legate to Mexico, said he hoped the President "and all the enemies of the Church will be pleasantly surprised" when they read Acerba animi in full, find it pacific and patriotic...