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...City. Few towns have greater wealth of story than Salzburg. There, Marcus Aurelius, soldier, established Roman headquarters among the Teuton tribes and brooded on philosophy. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to music. There the ecclesiastical princes came nearest to realizing the medieval dream of an all-powerful church and a beautiful state...
...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," and is on good terms with many U. S. citizens who have financial interests in Mexico. Thus he should poll a large Roman Catholic vote and knows where to find campaign funds...
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 Holy See and often have Roman Catholic wives...
...other hand, numerous peasants who ardently profess themselves Roman Catholics barely understand a few rudiments of that faith. The result is hopeless confusion in practice, while in theory the Holy See can justly claim a great majority of Mexicans are Roman Catholics and are being deprived of the ministrations of their priests at great risk to their souls...