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  1.                                                                                 THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDET CETERA
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  4.     THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT
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  6.     Although 90% of all Mexicans claim to be Roman Catholic, the
  7. church in Mexico hasn't officially existed for most of the past
  8. 131 years. Revolutionary heroes severed all ties to the Vatican
  9. as punishment for Catholic support of the landed elite and
  10. European intervention. Last week Mexican and church officials
  11. finally re-established diplomatic relations. "It is the end of
  12. an archaic debate," Nobel-prizewinning poet Octavio Paz told the
  13. local press. "We have problems too immense to be wasting our
  14. time with problems that are a hangover from the last century."
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