the Mexican episcopate were "organizing in preparation for a movement," or revolution, saying that Catholics are obliged "to preserve the immutable principles of justice and morality". He later threatened Calles, as well as government employees, parents who sent their children to government-operated schools and the children themselves, the teachers of those schools, and any other Catholic who supported the government with excommunication in 1935. However, no such excommunication was pronounced, and Díaz pardoned in advance those government employees who kept their occupations because they could not find work otherwise and those parents who sent their children to proscribed schools under pressure from the truant officer. Later that year, in March, he was arrested by traffic police to leave his car and enter theirs, kept sitting parked in a suburb of Mexico City for over two hours, and then taken to a police station where he sat all night; according to the Archbishop's private secretary, he subsequently suffered "from severe cramps and head pains". Although he agreed to a fine of 100 pesos as well, he did not pay. In 1936, the primate published a pastoral letter enforcing the Church's stance against Socialism. In it he described Catholics who practiced, studied, or taught Socialism as guilty of mortal sin, and said, "No Catholic can be a Socialist, understanding by Socialism the philosophical, economic or social system which, in one form or another, does not recognize the rights of God and the Church, nor the natural right of every man to possess the goods he has acquired..." Archbishop Díaz died from colitis in Mexico City, at the age of 59. References External links Catholic-Hierarchy 1876 births 1936 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Mexico Roman Catholic archbishops of Mexico (city) Roman Catholic bishops of Tabasco Mexican Jesuits People from Zapopan, Jalisco Indigenous Mexicans Huichol Jesuit archbishops