The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-17


or feeble, were cast, impoverished
and scantily clothed, on our shores.
Only few weeks ago, September 8,
the San Francisco Chronicle record
ed, the arrival on Chinese junk of
ninety-seven priests, brothers and
sisters, who were thus maltreated in
and thus expelled from Guadalajaro.
sacriIegious Horrors.
The details of the like or worse in
dignities and wrongs inflicted on the
representatives of religion wherever
the Constituencies have sway
would fill bulky volume, and shock
every decent Protestant or infidel
They have turned the churches into
stables and dance halls, they have
brought evil women into the Sanctu-
airy, they have profaned the Taber-
nacle and snatched the Chalice from
the priest at the Altar, they have
almost universally made public bon
fires of the Confessionals, they have
arrayed their horses in sacerdotal
vestments, and they themselves have
masqueraded in the vestments OF the
priests and in such guise had their
photographs taken beside nude women
to convince the world of priestly i'm
morality. Finally, they have cleared
all the regions they control of bish-
ops, priests, and religious, so that now
the clergy and brotherhoods and nuns
of that land, many of them natives,
are to be found in Texas, Louisiana,
California, New York, Europe, any
where but in Mexico, if we except the
600 refugees in Vera Cruz and those
still immured in Mexican jails. Five
such, all Jesuits, who were also sub
| jected to a mock execution, are still
imprisoned by Carranza.
| There is one other exception.
Priests who we're in bad repute or
unfrocked have been retained and
given parishes by Villa. Carranza
has even appointed a Vicar-General.
The religious program assigned them
is drawn up by Villareal, late men,
Der of Carranza's Cabinet. He was
a jailbird, who became schoolmas-
| ter, shot one of his pupils dead, fed
to Spain where he became a disciple
of Ferrer, returned to become Car
rama general, and as Military Gov
ernor of Nuevo Leon issued pro-
clamation which, after reciting abom-
Unable falsehoods against the clergy,
decreed: 1. Expulsion of all Jesuits
and all alien Catholic priests, and
all others who do not conform to the
government program. 2. Churches to
and only by those specially licensed.
8. No confessions nor confessors, nor
admission to the sacristy. 4. Bells to
toll only for national feasts and tri-
umphs. 5. All Catholic schools and
colleges to be closed unless they &C
cept the program, texts and headmas-
ter appointed by the government
Violation of this law subjects them
to fine of from 100000 to 100000
or Imprisonment or both, and recur-
renee of it to suppression and expul-
; sion.
This is rather a mild form of the
4 general system; the educational pro-
gram of Carranza's American friends
THE Evangelical Union" is in &C.
cord, but somewhat more drastic. Its
negative purpose has been realized
Catholic teaching and preaching
which for a century had been muz
zled, have been now entirely sup
pressed. Yet, despite the letters
placed upon religious education, on
seminaries and on every priestly &C
tivity, the priests and religious OF
Mexico can we'll compare with Oul
own, as testified by Rev. M. D. Col
Inns of Jackson, Mo-, who lived among
them over twenty years. In the pres
ent persecution they have shown
heroic quality. Those who have met
hundreds of these confessors of the
faith now sheltered in America anC
Cuba and Vera Cruz will testify tc
their evident virtue and Christian
: meekness, and find but one fault, thai
they lack the American spirit that
prompts stout resistance to unjust
aggression Among their warmest
admirers are the American officers
and soldiers of Vera Cruz who con
: tribute from their pay to the support
J, of these unfortunate victims.
1t is not only these who are in
: danger All the Inhabitants of Vera
? Cruz who have housed or helped then
). or the other Federal refugees have
! been warned that when the Ameri
3 cans leave they will be mulcted anC
: punished, as all others have been who
2 are suspected of Federal or Catholic
! sympathies. General Aguilar, Cover
: nor of the province, has paved the
2 way by an order on August %, thai
5 all Catholic schools and colleges be
closed and religious houses be aban
I doned within two days, under heavy
: penalties; and General Dieguez, Gov
: ernor of Jalisco, who expelled the 81
religious from Guadalajara, issued {
t bulletin August 25, one page of which
t ran under the heading, The buildings
e of the clergy belong to the people,
4 and the next contained % names Of
3 the laity including ladies who were
ordered to pay at once, at the risf
: of confiscation of their goods, sums
a ranging from $4,000 to $4,000, in al
$280,000. This is the general practice
Tyranny and Anarchy.
} In Mexico City, where Carranza has
) been making some effort to edify
| American preSsmen, Eel Pals" &c