Al Episcopado, Clero y Catolicos de Mexico [caption title]

San Antonio, Tx: Incarnate Word, 1934. Good.. [4]pp. Folio. Previously folded, with some separation at fore-edge from central horizontal fold. Chipping at edges, affecting some text at corners and fore-edge. Browned, and a somewhat brittle. A scarce diatribe against the secular Mexican government, issued by Leopoldo Ruiz, the Archbishop of Morelia, from the safety of the Catholic University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio during late 1934. The text demonstrates the ongoing tensions and conflict between religious and government authorities in Mexico following the Cristero War in the late 1920s, the period of greatest violence between the two sides after the adoption of the Constitution of 1917. Ruiz was Pope Pius XI's direct representative in negotiations with the Mexican government to resolve their disagreements, but such was the animus of the parties that he was exiled in 1932, after which he settled in San Antonio, whence he published this screed addressed to the "bishopry, clergy, and Catholics of Mexico," in which accused the government of "revolutionary Socialism" that obligated the dutiful opposition of the Church. A very scarce San Antonio Spanish-language imprint; OCLC locates only a pair of microfiched copies of this text at Emory and BYU, with the origin of the original unclear.