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...blue swimming pools. But for all its reputation as a garden hideaway for the international set, the flower that blooms most remarkably in Cuernavaca these days is a vigorous new variety of Roman Catholicism. Its most dedicated gardener is Cuernavaca's bishop, the Most Rev. Sergio Méndez Arceo...
...social orientation. Still, while these two pioneering experiments remain important factors in Cuernavaca's Catholic life and have influenced it enormously over the years, they are only part of the deep-ranging revitalization of the diocese's Christian life that has characterized the episcopate of Méndez Arceo...
More recently, Méndez Arceo embellished the cathedral with a different kind of innovation, this time borrowed from CIDOC-a "Pan-American" Mass, complete with traditional Latin American rhythms, bespangled mariachi, strumming guitars and wailing trumpets. The cathedral is packed every Sunday for the two "mariachi Masses," and many in the crowd are young men, an unusual sight in Latin American churches. After Mass, the bishop mingles with the crowd outside, chatting in one or another of five languages with foreign visitors, and pausing occasionally to give a parishioner a warm abrazo...
...Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing of Ambassador Mein ended a promising four-month lull in Guatemala's violence. It set back hopes for new political stability, encouraged only last month when President Julio César Méndez Montenegro's moderate reform program won endorsement in countrywide municipal elections...
That moderation became another victim of Mein's assassins. Méndez not only ordered flags to half-staff in mourning, but also temporarily reimposed emergency government powers, including the right to make arrests without a warrant. Outgoing foreign-press dispatches were delayed and censored. The question remained: Who killed the ambassador? A statement attributed to the pro-Castro Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) claimed that they had tried to kidnap Mein in retaliation for the arrest of an FAR terrorist four days earlier. That was most likely the answer...