Religion: Nun

When the Mexican Government, that harsh organization, sent the foreign Roman Catholic priesthood packing from the country (TIME, Feb. 6, LATIN AMERICA), a very old nun from a convent in Mexico City took ship for Manhattan. She arrived last week—Lorenza Rivarez, Mother Superior of the Order of St. Theresa—the first of the expelled believers to tell what scenes of abomination have been enacted in nunneries and churches. Misfortune had made her shy; her rapid, sorrowful words clicked like beads, pattered like rain; a Chancine priest translated the Spanish into French; a...

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