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Swap In Mexico City's penitentiary, Martinez Carrillo who wanted food & lodging changed clothes with Convict Ruiz Moreno who wanted freedom. Citizen Carrillo went to Moreno's cell, Convict Moreno out into the night...
...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...
...Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores is a native Mexican. He looked amazed when the expulsion order was served, describing him as a "pernicious foreigner" who had lost his citizenship through serving a "foreign power" (defending the Pope's encyclical...
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...
...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...