Word: catholicization
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Delegates. Some 500 church dignitaries faced the pulpit of Lausanne's 11th Century cathedral- comfortable British bishops; intense Scandinavians; placid Chinamen; square-fingered Germans; bearded, broad-browed, wise-eyed patriarchs from Russia, Greece, Palestine; neat Americans-representatives of some 90 sects in 49 nations. There was one notable absentee...
1928. Barring the possibility of a coup d'etat by one of the Roman Catholic insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put...
To exalt himself still further, General Gomez has released a photographic poster of himself captioned "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). A glance at this shows General Gomez to be unquestionably dashing and sleek, with impeccably upturned "Kaiser" mustachios. He proclaims himself in favor of "complete religious toleration...
Today, while General Gomez and other pro-Catholic candidiates are merely in the offing, what is the actual lot of Roman Catholics in Mexico?
Status Quo. The great complexity of the religious situation arises from the fact that many Mexicans are actually of a different religious complexion from that which they profess or even from that which they suppose to be their own. Thus many anti Roman Catholic statesmen have secret leanings toward the...