Word: moraes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Arrested. Since the Primate of Mexico, Archbishop José Mora y delRio, is an old and feeble man (TIME, July 26 et seq.) the real head of the Episcopate is its Secretary, Bishop Pasquale Diaz of Tabasco, a pure-blooded Mexican Indian, a smiling but doughty fighter against the anti-religious laws. During the crucial hours of last week Bishop Diaz expressed himself in fervent unbridled fashion to members of the informal U. S. investigating committee now touring Mexico. Apparently the Calles Government was thereby stampeded into the rash act of arrresting Bishop Diaz, and concealing the place...
...country." Bland Exchange. Between the Archbishop of Mexico and President Calles there passed last week an exchange of notes more amiable in tone than any previous pronouncement by the Episcopate or Administration since enforcement of the anti-religious Constitution of Mexico was begun (TIME, July 12). Archbishop José Mora y Del Rio dispassionately requested President Calles to suspend the enforcement statutes of the Constitution until the Mexican Parliament should have opportunity to strike out the Constitution's anti-religious clauses by amendment...
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...Mexican, whether Indian or non-Indian, to become a martyr for his faith. It explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them to offer violent resistance to the Government's measures. "My first call was upon the Archbishop, Monsignor Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies a plaza which illustrates one of the most attractive features of Mexico, where perpetual spring prevails and beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso...
...Monsignor Mora y del Rio, who wore the robes and insignia of his office received me in a plainly furnished study containing a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe. . . . He spoke Italian and was evidently touched by the visit of a journalist who had come expressly from the motherland of the Church to visit her persecuted outposts in Mexico. Indeed, so deep was his feeling that after the first few words he choked with emotion, and with tears flowing freely down his" cheeks he merely clasped my hands and murmured:'O Roma!Roma...