Mexican Bishops’ Naturalist Response to Violence Ignores Christ’s Social Kingship
Portal Catholic News Agency reports on the Mexican Bishops’ Conference statement following the assassination of Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo RodrÃguez, murdered during Day of the Dead celebrations in Uruapan. The bishops demanded authorities “confront the lack of rule of law” and “combat with determination the cause of all these murders,” while expressing solidarity with those who “remain faithful to their mission of proclaiming the Gospel.” This response epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of Catholicism to social work while denying the Regnum Christi (Kingship of Christ) as the only solution to societal collapse.
Omission of Supernatural Remedies Exposes Modernist Apostasy
The bishops’ statement commits the fundamental error condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas primas: treating temporal governance as autonomous from Christ’s sovereignty. Pius XI declared that “nations will be happy when both individuals and states submit to the rule of our Savior,” yet the Mexican hierarchy presumes to solve societal decay through naturalistic means. Their call to “confront the lack of rule of law” deliberately ignores the immutable teaching that “there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Nowhere do these post-conciliar officials mention:
The necessity of Mexico’s consecration to Christ the King
The obligation to combat heresy and immorality fueling criminality
The sacraments as the only means of transforming hearts
This silence constitutes tacit approval of Vatican II’s religious indifferentism, condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). By reducing the Church’s mission to sociological analysis, the bishops fulfill Pope St. Pius X’s warning in Lamentabili sane that Modernists would reduce faith to “man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Error 20).
False Ecumenism Undermines Call for Peace
The statement’s concluding invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe constitutes religious syncretism when divorced from its Catholic context. The Guadalupe apparitions converted millions by destroying pagan idolatry, yet the bishops employ her name while tolerating the indigenous pagan rituals pervasive in Day of the Dead celebrations. This parallels the condemned Modernist practice of adapting doctrine to culture, as Pius X warned: “They affirm that the dogma… is to be reduced to its primordial sense, such as it appears in the first expositors of the Church” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 13).
The bishops’ claim that Gospel proclamation continues “amid contexts marked by violence” rings hollow when their own seminaries teach the heresies condemned in Lamentabili:
That “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Error 60)
That “the Fourth Gospel excessively emphasizes miracles… to make them more suitable for highlighting the work and glory of the Incarnate Word” (Error 17)
How can they claim to proclaim Christ while denying the historicity of His miracles and the divine authorship of Scripture?
Capitulation to Secular Power Over Divine Law
The bishops’ demand that authorities “combat the cause” of murders ignores their own complicity in Mexico’s apostasy. For decades, the conciliar hierarchy has:
Permitted Communion for public adulterers
Endorsed liberation theology
Remained silent as Catholic schools teach religious indifferentism
Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Immortale Dei states: “When a society is perishing, the wholesome advice to give to those who would restore it is to have them return to the principles from which society sprang.” Mexico’s founding Catholic identity has been systematically destroyed by the very bishops who now feign concern. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns their position: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
The Only Path to Peace: Public Reign of Christ the King
True Catholic response would follow Pius XI’s prescription in Quas primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Instead, the bishops promote the conciliar heresy that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Lamentabili, Error 57), reducing her to a humanitarian NGO.
Mexico’s deliverance requires:
Abrogation of all laws contrary to Catholic morality
Expulsion of apostate clergy from ecclesiastical offices
National consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Until Mexico’s hierarchy demands these measures rather than sociological platitudes, their statements constitute what Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” – Modernism in its most lethal form.
Source:
Mexican bishops say root causes of crime must be addressed after another mayor is murdered (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 03.11.2025