| Show I I CALLES CALLES WIFE I CATHOLIC AND I CHilDREN TOO BUT HE IS NOT President Was Tas Baptized and Confirmed In Faith In-Faith Faith I TOLERANT CLAIM C L A I 1 All But One Member of Cabinet Are Nominal Catholics Catholics Hy nr DELLOYD riNIEr WOOD CopyrIght 1926 NEA ServIce Inc president MEXICO CITY Aus Aug 9 dent Calles and every member ot of his cabinet with the exception ot of the minister of state who was raised a Presbyterian are nom flora nomInal nominal inal thai Catholics Time The president was baptized and confirmed In n that faith If It he were asked however er the probably probably ably would deny affiliation with any church All Alt the members of ot President Calles family are Catholics So- So Senora Soflora nora Sc-nora nora flora CalIes is known for Cor her Ier and adherence to the practices ot of the church One daughter ot of the tho president now vacationing at home Is a student In a Los Angeles convent An- An Another Another An Another other daughter dau was recently mar mar- married married I AnI ried In a prominent Catholic church here AU ALL WENT TO CONFESSION CO Members of ot the tho presidential family went to confession before tho offices of ot the Catholic priests were suspended on July 31 by or- or order order or order der ot of the pastoral letter by the archbishop hop of ot Mexico and the Catholic episcopate pate This pastoral letter It Is worth noting protested against the re- re religious religious rc regulations of ot the constitution constitution tion lion and closed by stating statin some ot of the penalties which the Catho Catho- Catholic Catholic lic lie church may Impose on persons who have bave been baptized Among these are ar excommunication of oC those who Issue laws Jaws regulations or decrees against the rights and I liberty of ot the th church and excommunication I of ot those who directly I or li r else of ot NOT EXCO EXCOMMUNICATED TED To date date the tho th president has not been excommunicated President Call Calles denounces the institUtion ot ot of the confessional just justas justas ju tas as do other leaders of ot the so so- so o called social revolution The monster parade parado of ot August 1 I In support ot of the tho government had many banners condemning thIs established and Integral part ot of othe time the Catholic faith The president however howe does docs not interfere with members ot of hL family who go eo to confession conCession An intimate friend of ot the family told me today that President Calles rec recently asked one of ot his daughters why she sho did not con con- conLess con confess Less Cess to her mother Her answer did not satisfy him I lie He Is frank and open In his hl dealings with others and has lIas no Idea of ot setting himself against anyone's religious com convictions It If ho he were so minded he be would have to begin besin with his own family CHRISTIANITY But he Is determined to enforce the constitution and laws provid- provid providIng providing provid-Ine provid Ing for tor con confiscation of ot church property properly M Mexico xico has a II movement sImilar to that In India and Japan which believes that the tho only solution solution solution tion of ot social economic ills lies In the tho teachings or of Jesus Many men who con con- condemn condemn con condemn organized C for tor Its theology and are diligent Bible DIble Bibi readers It Is not uncommon in public gatherings here to see sec a Bible produced and hear a quotation from the th gos- gos gospels cos President Calles belonGs belonG's to thIs movement A well known Ameri Amen AmerIcan American can social leader said to me mo to- to today today to today day No man In Mexico believes more in tn the application ot of the so- so socIal social so social cial teachings of ot Jesus than the presIdent |
