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...Foreign Affairs Committee last week to urge that the U. S. break off diplomatic relations with Mexico on account of the recent enforcement (TIME Feb. 22) of anti-foreign religious clauses in the Mexican constitution. Affidavits were offered to prove that 21 Carmelite nuns were recently dragged from their convent by Mexican soldiers, marched to Mexico City and told that they were about to be distributed among the local brothels, there to be subjected to enforced prostitution. They were released when a bribe of 100 pesos ($50) was accepted by their guard...
Mother Margaret Semple, Superior of the Convent at Cozeacan, Mexico, who testified before the Committee, stated that when she left Mexico Ambassador Sheffield suggested that upon reaching the U. S. she "talk loudly and at length" about her experiences. She added: "He knew I would do it and I knew he was not at liberty publicly to tell all he knew...
When the Mexican Government, that harsh organization, sent the foreign Roman Catholic priesthood packing from the country (TIME, Feb. 6, LATIN AMERICA), a very old nun from a convent in Mexico City took ship for Manhattan. She arrived last week-Lorenza Rivarez, Mother Superior of the Order of St. Theresa-the first of the expelled believers to tell what scenes of abomination have been enacted in nunneries and churches. Misfortune had made her shy; her rapid, sorrowful words clicked like beads, pattered like rain; a Chancine priest translated the Spanish into French; a reporter put the French into English...
...been a very sad thing ... to see the nuns driven out and the convent looted. . . . Thirty years ago I founded my convent; what is there left for me? . . . We taught the young girls to do good works among the poor; I had 200 under my rule. . . . No one can imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray...
...psychological problem of Luara Regan, who, anxious to marry, but not in the physical sense of the word, on the eve of her marriage to Dudley, is shown by a miracle that her happiness lies only in becoming a bride of the Church, "His Bride," and so enters a convent. Miss Hurst has very definite ideas on the emotions through which Laura progresses to her ultimate goal. These she reveals in a most powerful but, to mind, unpleasant manner...