The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-03
CATHOLIC PRELATE DISPUTES DENIALS
 OF ADMINISTRATION
Take Issue With Statement of Humility on Mexican Po-
 IiticaI Situation

fs4narazDk Dec 3-StatemenS in re- ply stp the recent letter in which Jos epnsP. TunuIty, secretary to President -VVi1son- explained from an adminis- <ratlon viewpoint the situation m Mexico, as regards the Roman Catho- lie Church, are made public here one is by Mgr Francis c. Kelley, presi- dent Of the Catholic Church Extension Society, and the other by. the Rev. R H. Tierney, editor of the Catholic weekly America" and both renew criticism of President Wilson in rec ogn4zing the Carranza government under which says Mgr. Kelley, relig- ious liberty is being denied to the people of Mexico
 The statement by Mgr Kelley fol- 1ows-
 If the fles of the Department of State are without official records to prove the stdastard1y crime" of out eragea committed upon nuns by Mexi- can Reyo1utionists. there are official which have been offered to the De- partnent of State I happen to have some of them myself, given under oath I have one in particular that has never seen the light of day But is Mr. Humility perfectly safe in try ing to disprove all the outrages : against religion through denying one? Even if we grant all his contentious there still remains a great burden of crime absolutely unexplained. One thing, however, he may be certain of the worst of the afddavits will never be given out, fors it stands to reason that no names are going to be
 mentioned5 not for the Revolution- ists' sake, or for MT. Tumu1ty's sake, but rather for the sake of the poor victims The murders, the footing, the stealing, the closing of churches, etc. etc, have been admitted over and over again by the Revolutionists themselves. It is most extraprdin- ary that Mr TunnuIty could make the statement seriously that the officers of the American Army never heard a, single report of outrage having been committed" The fact of the mat ter is that the story first came to my know1edge through one who received 1t from officers of both the army and navy. I afterwards conversed with one of these officers, and he not only corroborated what had heard, but gave me additional facts. However, This case Is about the same as that Eof the nuns. While have his name Eand his signature, I doi not propose Ito have him dismissed from the army, 1or have his life made a burden by revealing it. MT. Tumulty may not perhaps have heard that nuns were forcdbly taken from trains and sent into the Revo7utionfst army. The nun1ber Of nuns who reached Cuba, or the United States safely is negl gible. How many of' them will never be heard from?
 A rather strange thing 1t is that gAdr TumuIty should use as an author Etty 'sthe Very Rev Antonio J. Pare Eaes, Roman Catholic Vicar-Generai, che Arehbishopric of Mexico City, lFFhen MT. Bryan was Secretary of State, he communicated to me copy of the statement of Canon Parades, and informed me that he was going to give it to the press. Through Dud- Hey Field Malone of New York, I gave MT. Bryan information as to who i3h1s Antonio J. Parades was. I told. him that he was Vicar-GeneraI of Mexico City only because he had been appointed by Carranza to that office, aespdtess the fact that the Constitu- ton of Mexico proc5ains that there is no union in that country between Church and State. The Venerable Arch bishop Of Mexico City. however, as Father Tierney says. in order to avoid further scandal, allowed Pare des to act; but as nattgr of fact, very few of the clergy of Mexico City pay any atteutiou to him, but asaEi