Turbulent priests

摘要

Like a giant waking from a long sleep, Mexico's Catholic church is beginning' to stir. In recent decades, its leaders seldom offered their political opinions in public, especially if they were anti-government. Though over 80% of Mexicans call themselves Catholic, the church has been restrained by a severely anti-clerical constitution (priests, for example, had no vote until 1992) and by successive presidents' deep suspicion, based on its previous history of meddling in politics. But now churchmen are once again courting controversy.