CHURCH IN MEXICO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 135, 8 May 1928, Page 5

CHURCH IN MEXICO.

SYMPATHY OF DOMINION HIERARCHY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 7. The Catholic hierarchy of New Zealand, at a meeting at Wellington last week decided to send a letter, through Cardinal Hayes, of New York, to the Catholic Episcopate of Mexico, assuring them or sympathy, admiration, and prayers. _ The letter, which is signed by Archbishops Redwood and O’Shea and Bishops Cleary, Brodie, Whyte and Liston, states: —“Your trials stand, we believe, seldom surpassed in tho 1900 years of our Catholic life, and are scarcely exceeded even by the persecutions under Nero, Domitian, and Caligula. A Government censorship and direction of telegraphic news stni sustain the campaign of culumny and seek to suppress or distort the known and oven notorious facts of the aggressively atheistic war against religion in Mexico, and considerations of politics, finance, and commerce maintain a conspiracy of silence on the part of tho great body of the American secular Press. These sources of misrepresentation will pass, and we are confident that history will vindicate the fair name of tho Bishops and people of Catholic Mexico, and set _ down your fidelity to the faith of Christ as one of the noblest pages in her record.”