Show S c WARf I O ON ONY ICO FORK y RI RK De De' 16 CAP The AP-The The e Af f the United In Its first pastoral pastoral- letter since 1919 warns Christian civill Ivill that its Ita foundations are arc are again agalli being attacked and tinder tinder- mined by religious restrictions ih Mexico J The document containing more than 2000 words and compiled 1 bya by bya a committee consisting of Cardinal Hayer et Archbishop Glennon of St St. Louis Archbishop bowling Dowling of ot St Paul Bishop of oC Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land and Bishop Kelle Kelley of Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa is being sent to tp clergymen clergy clergy- men and to Catholic organizations The bishops state they are carrying carry carry- ing the case of the church to the American people following the example example ex ex- ample of ot President Calles Caller who has come Into tho the American forum through diplomatic and Consular agencies and otherwise In man In-an an at attempt attempt at- at tempt to Justify the stand of ot his got The bishops state the letter Is not an appeal anneal Q AV for tor political Intervention Q AV or for action of ot any uny sort by the American government Our duty is done It says when by telling the stor story defendIng defend defend- ing the truth and emphasizing the Principles we sound a warning to Christian civilization that Its foundations loun- loun c are again being att attacked and undermined Cardinal Hayes Haye says s 's the letter Is not designed to revive the religious controversy in Mexico but to set It at rest The Mexican government gov gov- In taking its Us case to the American people must In turn be beI Judged by American standards standards he I says TELLS DIFFERENCES The letter takes up the differences differences differences differ differ- in religious and civil liberty the American n and Mexican Ci constitutions nad asserts no American Amer Amer- ican can can accept the Mexican theory of ot government as In accord with fundamental justice without repudiating repudiating repudiating his own traditions and ideals In the commonly accepted Amer Anier- American American ican lean doctrine a constitution vests the government with such rights and powers as as' as asare are for tor the proper exercises of its Jut just functions fune- fune ons ns and at the same time forbids it to encroach upon the fhe rights of of a a a. higher order which comes to mannot man mau mannot not from the people nor from the state nor from any ariy any aggregation of states slates but from the tho creator of both men and states Almighty God This conception is WhOllY in keeping with the teaching of ot the Catholic church The letter quotes from the decla deela- declaration ration atlon of ot independence i the Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas the supreme supreme su supreme su- su preme court and tone Blackstone in support support support sup sup- port of or the view view th that t the dictates of or conscience are in many cases superior superior su superior su- su to the enactments of the state when these are in clear contradiction contradiction contradiction con con- to the divine law MAKES COMPARISON The letter compares the Mexican religious restrictions with liberal provisions in the United Stater for religious educational and charitable agencies Charges of the Mexican government government govern- govern ment nent against the church in Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico including those of ot undue wealth of neglecting education of ot entering politics of opposing separation separation separation sepa sepa- ration of church and state are decia declared declared de de- cia red by the letter to have been I I fabricated for campaign purposes To meet these charges the lei iel letter let let- I ter tel declares the church has only I Ito to ray fay Ea Show me one good thing in I Mexico I did not give you ou Sno Snow me one genius for tor whom I was not responsible Show me one step toward toward to- to ward vard the light that I did not help you yOU rou tape take Take out of your country coun- coun try tn ry al all that that I put in it and see what remains Y Yo You op may thrust thrust me out exile exil my bishops murder my priests again steal m my schools and desecrate n mv sanctuaries but you cannot blot out history you cannot erase the mark markI I made on you you not not in a century of ot I centuries |