Cantiga in Praise of Saint Mary (verse)
Walsh, Thomas
May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 7S is so wholly distinct from our own? It is possible to...
...Ryan's roseate view of the future one would Will reign for us in love serene like to know on what he bases his hopes...
...Since the first quarter of the nineteenth century and the T0 the Editor:-The articles and communications in the separation from Spain, the Spanish element in the country, issue of May 5 on the Mexican situation have naturally still alien, has struggled with alternating success against the aroused discussion...
...He fears lest threats from the United States "will intensify greatly and prolong indefinitely the present tyrannical regime And we should love and serve her well, in Mexico...
...And gain our sins their pardon too...
...A constitutional republic is no more natural and cautious policy in our dealings with Mexico, makes the to the Spaniard than it is to the descendant of Montezuma...
...Lady of ladies, Power of powers...
...Rose of roses, Flower of flowers, In the same issue of The Commonweal, Mr...
...The latter thinks that "in due time an understanding, a To such a Lady great love is due...
...Nor ever fail our pledge to tell, Evidently Mr...
...Lady of ladies, Power of powers...
...Those rogate the then provisional government, as to whether the who have lived in Asia may find it easier to understandd the government would guarantee and provide religious liberty for Mexican, since they have already been shaken out of their its people...
...Hayes unduly alarmed over the possible The sweetest in our earthly bowers, results of Catholics in this country protesting to our governRose of roses, Flower of flowers, ment against the anti-religious tyranny which rages in Mexico...
...following statement: "With the broad question of the rights In spite of Las Casas the mind of very large numbers of of Mexicans in spiritual matters as against their own governMexicans remains a dark and unexplored mystery in the mat- ment, it is safe to posit that our government has nothing whatter of religion...
...But is Mr...
...May 5...
...This is what a number Translared from the Galician by Thomas Walsh of readers would like to have settled...
...We think Mr...
...Light on Mexican Darkness, The Commonweal, European concepts...
...William F. Sands, in the course of his plea for a sane alien to both...
...Bryan to historical and of archaeological knowledge, the collation and specify as a condition for recognition, religious freedom for scientific direction of 2,000 years of Christian experience upon the Mexican people...
...What right had Mr...
...Hayes does not share the view of many And she our evils will repel, well-informed persons, that without the moral support and And gain our forfeit with her dowers, sympathy of the United States, not one of the governments Rose of roses, Flower of flowers, that have misruled Mexico for a century could have endured...
...Is there anything in ALFONSO X (1221-1284...
...resurgence of the native races, under a system of government Mr...
...he has for those clauses of the Constitution of 1917 which Rose of roses, Flower of flowers, appear to be favorable to labor, that clouds his vision to the Lady of ladies, Power of powers...
...Let the United States withdraw recognition, which was only This Lady whom we hail as Queen, granted conditionally, and the Calles regime will be doomed...
...Sands's view correct...
...If such be the case, why did Secretary of State of Christianity have sunk but precarious roots...
...The former believes it would be "a most mistaken Flower of joy and happiness, and short-sighted policy for Catholic Americans to endeavor Lady of pieties that bless, to make the present welfare of the Catholic Church in Mexico Queen of aid in our evil hours...
...Los Altos, Calif...
...What business was it of his or of the United A very keen American publisher remarked not long since, States Senate, whether freedom of religion was granted or after a visit to Rome, that far from being a machine or an not ? organization, the Catholic Church with its disorderly dupli- Again, why did Secretary Bryan, in a series of communicacation of every effort, with its astounding inefficiency could tions intended for Generals Villa and Carranza, warn the rebel not last a day unless by the strength of a "motivating" ideal...
...May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 7S is so wholly distinct from our own...
...mission work, with full utilization of all modern equipment...
...Carlton J. Lady of ladies, Power of powers...
...Whose troubadour we fain have been, As to Dr...
...It is not safe Lansing, at the direction of the United States Senate, interto think of what is happening there in European terms...
...Hayes and Father John A. Ryan write more or less sympathetically of certain elements in the Mexican revolutionary Rose of beauty and loveliness, program...
...Is it the respect When other loves we call not ours...
...a special object of solicitude on the part of the United States Rose of roses, Flower of flowers, government...
...It is possible to contend COMMUNICATIONS that under alien Spanish rule the people of Mexico had no more to do with government than they did under the Aztec, THE MEXICAN SITUATION Toltec, or Maya...
...the conduct of the rascals who are in power at present in...
...Cathoremark may have a bearing on it : namely, the coordinating of lic Mind, May 8, 1915...
...tolerable adjustment, will be reached between Catholic interIn times of need she can guard us true, ests in Mexico and the government of that country...
...If Mr...
...iniquity of the legislation on religion...
...Sands's contention be correct, then it would appear that at least two of our secretaries of state were entirely out of bounds in attempting to dictate to a foreign state what &antiga in Praise of Saint Mary its attitude should be toward religion...
...There are great regions where four centuries ever to do...
...leaders that "in order to command the sympathy and moral It may be that the Church in America has a particular support of America, Mexico must have, when her reconstrucmission now that its domestic problems are solved, and that tion comes, true freedom of conscience and worship...
...Lady of ladies, Power of powers...
Vol. 4 • May 1926 • No. 3
