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The Vatican and Mexico established full diplomatic relations Monday, formally ending a sometimes-bloody rift of more than a century. ”An old anachronism has been overcome,” said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. Mexico is Latin America`s second-largest Roman Catholic nation (96 percent of its population is Catholic) but the constitution was highly anti-clerical until earlier this year. Mexico severed relations with the Vatican in the 1860s, after confiscating church property to punish Rome for its support of European suppression of Mexico`s population.
