Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 7 | Mexican Catholics Outline Attitude

ISIilif OUTLIHE ATTITUDE Prelates Declare They Will Gladly Aid Anyone in Restoring Peace. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 0. -Prelates of the Koman ai h.-lic church in Mexico, In convention here, today. Issued a statement In which lh-v declared they believed in I heir duty "to answer the statement made by I. 'on Yenustiano i 'a r-ranza" r-ranza" a ml out lined t heii a 1 1 ilude town to-wn rd their native country. The statement was signed bv Joseph Mora y .elrlo. a rehMsho . ot Me Wen; Kuloejo G. Cutllow, aichbishop of Oa.xaca, and sIn bishops. The statement said in part: Neit her Don Ve uti.il in rio Car ran .a nor any other person need have a. fear that Mexican bishops and cle.igy may be an obstacle to the restoration of peace lit Meco; since such reslora-lioii reslora-lioii has been the aim or all our works, writings, prayers and exhortations exhorta-tions to t lie tailhful nu ring the last yea.ra of. civil war in our unhappy country. We are lonchig to work among our people In behalf of the great task of assuaging the misfo t unes of our coin i try a nd of co -opera ting through our apostolic ministry for the cementing cement-ing of iftllonal peace and prosperity-. We h u a ssort that we never coti-Iributcd coti-Iributcd cither bv our set nions or by our writings, either secretly or publicly, pub-licly, and far less financially, lo overthrow J-'ranciseo MaileroY- government, govern-ment, i Our behavior towards General lln-ertu's lln-ertu's government can riot h blamed as cri mi na 1 or deli n ii'-nt, t.eca use it was a merely passive attitude, avoiding avoid-ing any intci feronce in political affairs. af-fairs. The statement, that we contributed eleven million dollars to a new uprising up-rising Is totally absurd.