MEXICO: Nun's Tale

From the Mexican clergy recently came an eloquent appeal that nuns in general be not held responsible for the acts of one demented individual. The individual in question was Mother Superior Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, 36-year-old bobbed haired nun.

The Story. Mother Concepcion, sinister, mysterious master mind, has long made it a practice to gather about her youthful impressionable idealists, wheedle them into fanatics, use them as instruments, her end being the deliverance of Mexico from "religious persecution."

At a meeting on April 13 she directed one Maria Elena Manzano,...

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