MEXICAN TROUBLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 76

MEXICAN TROUBLE.

TRIALS OF ROMAN CATHOLICS SYMPATHY OF NEW ZEALAND CHURCH. Auckland, May 7. -Ihe Roman Catholic % Hierarchy of Aew Zealand at a meeting in Wellington last week decided to send a letter through Cardinal Hayes, of New York, to the Roman Catholic episcopate of Mexico, assuring it of the sympathy, admiration, and prayers of the church in New Zealand. Ihe letter, which is signed by Archbishops Redwood and O’Shea, and by Bishops Cleary, Brodie, Whyte, and Liston, states: “ Your trials stand, we believe, seldom surpassed in the 1900 years our Catholic life, and are scarcely exceeded even by the persecution under INero, Domitmn, and Caligula. A Government censorship and direction of telegraphic news still sustain a campaign of calumny and seek to suppress or distort the known and even notorious facts of an aggressively atheistic war against reln Mexico, and considerations of politics, finance, and commerce maintain a conspiracy of silence on the part of the preat body of the American secular press, lhese sources of misrepresentation will pass, and we are confident that history will vindicate the fair name of the bishops and the people of Catholic Mexico and set down your fidelity to the faith of Lhrist as one of the noblest pages in her record.