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PAPAL NOTE HITS
Law OF MEX|CANS
Pope Plus Condemns ''Bloody
Tyranny" Suffered by Clergy
EXPORTS ALL TO PRAYERS
Encyc]ical Published Today Pictures
Horrors Of Abuse In Mexico And
Lauds Heroic Stand of the Bishops
And Priests.

Rome, Nov. 20 F-Pope Plus in
an encyclical published today con-
dennis the bloody tyranny" suffer
ed by the clergy and faithful in
Mexico. exhorts those In other lands
to continue prayers in behalf of the
Mexicans, and expresses faith In the
final victory Of the church.
He enlarges upon two themes, the
increasing violence of the persecu-
ton, including attacks on young
women and the growth Of courageous
though peaceful. resistance.
Calls 1t "Bloody Tyranny"
He examines especially 1.-The ar
bitrary character of the so-called po-
litical constitution of 1917 and the
intolerable way in which the condi-
tons of the Catholics have been rem
dered even more tragic by the recent
and ever more odious law and by its
violent application accompanied by
the grossest abuses of authority,
reaching "bloody tyranny"
The principal excuses Of this
tyranny verified by incontestable
testimony, he says, have been direct
ed not only against holy places and
persons but also against those citi-
zens who are most openly Catholic.
and who therefore are suspected of
aversion toward the anti-religious
laws Of their rulers.
Describes Conditions
The description of condition In
Mexico. the encyclical says. recalls
atrocities of the worst period of per-
secution. including the French revo-
luton, whose martyre the pontif re-
Gently glorifed thinking also of
their imitators. the martyrs of Mex
lean persecution"
In contrast 20 the gloomy picture
Of the horrors Of the persecution, the
Pope describes the courageous spec
tacle of resistance offered by bishops
priests and laymen, especially the
members of the principal Catholic
associations which he praises by
name.
Praise For X. Of c.
These include the Knights OF Co.
lumbus, the Federation for Defense
of Religious Liberty. the Association
OF Mexican Catholic Youth. and the
Union of Mexican Catholic Women.
all of which, he says, have earned
the gratitude of the church and their
country.
He mentions the principal heroes
in the fight for religious liberty, re-
calling with especial love and pride
those youths who, being asked to
cheer for their prosecutor. preferred
death, which they met with rosaries
in their hands, exalting Christ as
king.
He also recounts the even more
horrible fate of Christian virgins
who, the encyclical says. have with
Satanic hate" cen imprisoned and
subjected in prison to the worst i'll
treatment.
The Pope then recalls the driving
promise of future victory and the i'm
of the church, even amid
the most terrible storms, and ex-
presses the hope that the prosecutors
themselves may repent, realizing
how much their country and they
themselves owe to the church and
the Catholic religion.
Catholics Take Credit
All good. civilization and progress
existing in Mexico. the Encyclical
declares. came through the Catholic
religion. which first saved the coun-
try from the greed of its conquerors,
and later from the reaction OF the
natives: then enriched it with the
splendors OF religion. with the bene-
fits OF the Catholic religion. with in
stitutes of charity and benehence,
and with schools of all grades and
kinds
Finally, the pontiff invokes our
Lady OF Guadalupe to forget the
offenses she has suffered and get for
the Mexican people peace and con-
cord, and II this should be delayed.
to intercede for divine comfort for
the prosecuted Mexicans. CONSOLE
dating them in their resistance to
laws which deprive them OF the
liberty of protesting their reli eioo