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- THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDET CETERA
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- THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
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- Although 90% of all Mexicans claim to be Roman Catholic, the
- church in Mexico hasn't officially existed for most of the past
- 131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican
- as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and
- European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials
- finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of
- an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the
- local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our
- time with problems that are a hangover from the last century."
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