"Faith is stronger than law," said Archbishop Luis María Martínez, drawing deeply on his cigarette. "Despite what has happened in the past, we are really not doing too badly." Outside, a brown-cowled Franciscan hurrying along the plaza bore out the Archbishop's point, for this was Mexico City, capital of a country whose 38-year-old constitution 1) forbids monastic orders, and through a statute also bans any kind of religious garb in public; 2) declares all churches, rectories and convents government property, and 3) gives state legislatures the power to determine the number of clergymen...
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