Religion: Dynamite

The Pope's Christmas denunciation of Protestant proselyting in Rome was mild, local, legalistic (see above}.

Decidedly otherwise was the cognate condemnation of Protestantism in Mexico, harshly cried out last week by one of the Pope's subalterns, Indian-blooded Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico. Monsignor Diaz was ejected from Mexico four years ago for pursuing his religious duties in ways which violated Mexican constitutional laws (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927 et seq.}.

He was then Bishop of Tabasco. He returned last year and joined with Delegate Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores to make a deal with...

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