Show REVIEW OF MEXICAN RELIGIOUS TURMOIL iRIV iq By the Associated Pr Press s CAUSES Laws ws effective today enforcing the constitution n of 1857 reaffirmed reaf real firmed by bv the constitution of ot 1917 These regulations provide No t foreign re-Ign clergyman may may function In Mexico Church ownership of ot property is forbidden and nd all church property prop prop- arty erty reverts to the state Religious Instruction n In schools convents and monasteries monasteries' Is forbidden n. It is illegal gal for clergy or religious s periodicals to criticize the government EFFECTS l Y Mexican episcopate ordered as a protest of dC discontinuance of ot all aU services services' in in which priests function beginning today Some Catholics will be unable to hear mass or re receive receive receive re- re penitence communion or other sacraments except pt baptism and matrimony ny which will be given g by laymen The church planned to have lay committees conduct some churches for w worship but the gov government ordered order d that Uia they be bo taken over by committees s named by b- the mayors Ecclesiastical I property oth other r than churches church s Is closed under seal An economic boycott has been ordered by organized Catholic laymen Purchases s will be limited to necessities Troops have been bee called out at various places to maintain order GOVERNMENTS GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE Church and state must be separated and the church must eschew esche politics President Calles regards it as a final finai struggle between light and darkness I CHURCHS CHURCH'S ATTITUDE Persecution is threatening religious freedom m. m The church denies de denies denies de- de nies It has ha meddled In politics Pope Plus Pius does does not desire to interdict Mexico unless unless' absolutely necessary He has requested the faithful throughout the world to pray pra tomorrow tomorrow for tor their Mexican co The Living Church national organ organ of the Episcopalian n church asks all aU Prot Protestants In the Unit United d States to pray with C Catholics for tor the per persecuted e church hurch in in- Mexico Bishop George Miller Uller resident re bishop of ot the Methodist Episcopal Episcopal Episcopal Episco Episco- pal church in Mexico says there is no religious persecution and that that Mexico was forced to u use se drastic measures measure because the Roman Roman Ro Ro- lio man Catholic priests in Mexico have refused to comply with the law of ot the land and have persistently meddled in politics t |