VOICE FROM VATICAN
MEXICAN PERSECUTION
DENOUNCED BY THE POPE
ABSTENTION FROM: POLITICS,
{Dttitad Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 21st December, noon.)
ROME, 20th Dec.
The' Pops held a secret consistory and, addressing the Cardinals, strongly denounced the Mexican persecution of Catholics, which, he said, was charactefised by inhuman ferocity and imJ>ietjL Recent newa showed that, it tyas- ©vett .more cruel than had been ■WppoUcd; Bishops had been tom from their sees and priests <and people imprisoned and slaughtered even., while p:r«ying. Private schools had been persecuted. He warned French Catholics that they must not co-operate in the jpirbgfimma Of putting politics before religion or accept the leadership of inewsjjapernjett whose writings were condemned by Catholic dogma and morality. ' Referring to Signor- Mussolini's escape, due, he said, almost to the visible, intervention of Providence, he deplored that Catholic persons had atii«*«a T>uMings and organisations had been devastated at the moment when ke himself, the bishops, and and faithifuf were united in thanksgiving for thfc escape and Tejoieed that the Government had punished the perpetrators.,"
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1926, Page 9
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171VOICE FROM VATICAN Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1926, Page 9
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