A Mexican Journey
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The jurisdiction of ecclesiastical and military courts over civil cases was declared at an end, an evil which Iturbide's constitution had not even sought to remove. Religious toleration was guaranteed, the separation of church and state was declared, the control of the church over cemeteries was denied, the right of the church to possess landed property was abol- 148 Digitized by Google THE GOVERNMENT ished, civil marriage was instituted. The ne- cessity for the two last-named measures may well... be explained at this point. The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, while the people stiU lived in abject poverty, was the richest church establishment in the world, owning then over one-third of the total wealth of the nation, or about $300,000,000 worth of prop- erty. Even Roman Catholics, outside the re- actionary group, admit that such a state of affairs is not desirable. Madame Calderon de la Barca, herself a devout Catholic, gave warning as early as 1841 that if reforms were not made by the church itself, they would be forced upon it, and that its cathedrals would perhaps be turned to "meeting houses" by Mexico's neighbors from the north.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The jurisdiction of ecclesiastical and military courts over civil cases was declared at an end, an evil which Iturbide's constitution had not even sought to remove. Religious toleration was guaranteed, the separation of church and state was declared, the control of the church over cemeteries was denied, the right of the church to possess landed property was abol- 148 Digitized by Google THE GOVERNMENT ished, civil marriage was instituted. The ne- cessity for the two last-named measures may well... be explained at this point. The Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, while the people stiU lived in abject poverty, was the richest church establishment in the world, owning then over one-third of the total wealth of the nation, or about $300,000,000 worth of prop- erty. Even Roman Catholics, outside the re- actionary group, admit that such a state of affairs is not desirable. Madame Calderon de la Barca, herself a devout Catholic, gave warning as early as 1841 that if reforms were not made by the church itself, they would be forced upon it, and that its cathedrals would perhaps be turned to "meeting houses" by Mexico's neighbors from the north.
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