Mexico’s Martyrdom: Conciliar Sect’s Naturalism Masks Spiritual Bankruptcy
Mexico’s Martyrdom: Conciliar Sect’s Naturalism Masks Spiritual Bankruptcy
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 14, 2025) reports the murder of Ernesto Baltazar Hernández Vilchis, a “priest” of the Diocese of Cuautitlán in Mexico, found dead after disappearing for weeks. Authorities arrested two suspects who allegedly stabbed him, hid his body in sewage canals, and have issued a warrant for a third accomplice. “Bishop” Efraín Mendoza Cruz issued a bureaucratic statement thanking the slain cleric for “generous dedication to the Gospel” and demanded justice from civil authorities while vaguely lamenting Mexico’s “painful reality” of violence. The report omits all supernatural considerations, reducing the tragedy to a crime statistic.
Naturalistic Reduction of Priestly Martyrdom
The conciliar sect’s response exemplifies the hermeneutic of rupture with Catholic soteriology. By framing Hernández’s death as mere violent crime rather than a potential martyrdom requiring theological examination, Mendoza Cruz violates Canon 2027 of the 1917 Code (requiring proof of odium fidei for martyr recognition). Pius XI condemned such secularization: “When God and Jesus Christ… are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (Encyclical Ubi Arcano, 1922). The “bishop” ignores the four last things (death, judgment, heaven, hell), instead promoting the modernist myth that violence is solved through sociological activism rather than Christus Rex‘s reign.
Sacramental Silence: Denial of the Priesthood’s Eternal Stakes
No mention is made of whether Hernández received last rites—a grave omission given the apostolic constitution Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) requiring priests to administer extreme unction to the dying. The report’s clinical description (“attacked with a sharp object… wounds led to death”) strips the event of its ex opere operato significance. Compare this to the Council of Trent’s decree on holy orders: “The sacrament of orders imprints an indelible character… by which the priest is configured to Christ the eternal High Priest” (Session XXIII, Chap. 4). By reducing Hernández to a victim rather than a soul judged by God, the conciliar sect denies the particular judgment awaiting all priests.
False Mercy Toward Killers
Mendoza Cruz demands “justice that every human life deserves” while omitting the killers’ need for conversion and penance. This contradicts Pius V’s Roman Catechism: “Civil authority must punish criminals not with cruel hatred, but as a surgeon cuts off rotten limbs to save the body” (Part III, 6,6). The suspects’ criminal histories (one served 18 years for violent robbery) prove the conciliar sect’s failure to evangelize Mexico—where 92% of prisoners identify as “Catholic” yet practice pagan syncretism (INEGI, 2024). True justice would require their public repentance and reparation, not secular incarceration.
Masking Apostasy With Human Rights Rhetoric
The “diocese” joins “the outcry of so many families suffering from violence”, reducing the Church to an NGO. This echoes the condemned proposition in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Contrast this with Christ’s mandate: “Go, teach all nations… teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20). By demanding earthly solutions to spiritual decay, Mexico’s conciliar hierarchy confirms Bellarmine’s warning: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… nor can he retain jurisdiction over the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30).
Source:
Priest found dead in Mexico; 2 suspects arrested (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.11.2025