The Catholic News Agency portal (January 5, 2026) reports that “Cardinal” José Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara urged Mexicans to demand secular authorities prosecute criminals while claiming peace originates in human hearts. The article notes Mexico’s 93.2% impunity rate and the planned 2026 commemoration of the Cristero War centennial. Rather than proclaiming Christ’s social reign, the conciliar prefect reduces Catholicism to a self-help program for corrupt earthly governments.
Eclipse of Supernatural Order by Anthropocentric Governance
The apostate official’s insistence that authorities have a “mandate to protect us” deliberately ignores the foundational principle of Quas Primas: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they recognize that the Church is the teacher given to them by Christ” (Pius XI, 1925). By demanding citizens pressure secular regimes rather than convert them to Catholicism, Robles Ortega commits the condemned error of indifferentism: “It is unlawful to follow one form of religion in private while professing another in public” (Syllabus of Errors #15, Pius IX). His lament about extorted business owners closing shops rings hollow when he omits the duty of Catholic monarchs to eradicate usury and enforce just prices (Vix Pervenit, Benedict XIV).
Psychological Self-Help Replaces Sacramental Grace
The assertion that peace is nurtured through personal introspection constitutes pure Modernist subjectivism condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Contrast this with the Decrees of Trent: “Justification is wrought by the instrumental cause of baptism…not by faith alone” (Session VI, Chapter VII). The conciliar official’s silence on Sacramental Penance as the divine remedy for violence exposes his adherence to the heresy that “dogmas are not truths of divine origin but interpretations of religious facts” (Lamentabili #22).
Cristero Martyrs Betrayed by Conciliar Cowardice
While paying lip service to the Cristero martyrs, Robles Ortega commits the same error as Plutarco Calles by divorcing religious freedom from truth claims. The Cristeros fought not for generic “religious freedom” but for public profession of the Catholic Faith as the sole true religion. The conciliar official’s equivalence between past persecutors and modern criminals whitewashes history: The Cristero martyrs died opposing Masonic tyranny, while today’s “organized crime” flourishes under the conciliar sect’s refusal to condemn Freemasonry by name. As St. Pius X warned: “The enemy is no longer outside the Church but hides within her” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 39).
Theological Vacuum Breeds Social Chaos
Mexico’s 20 violent cities per 50 globally directly result from abandoning Quas Primas‘ mandate: “When countries are not governed by Christ, they experience endless troubles”. The conciliar official’s solution—family monitoring of teenagers—ignores the social reign of Christ the King demanded by Pope Pius XI: “Rulers must submit to Christ publicly…citizens must obey rulers as Christ’s representatives”. By reducing the Church to a NGO advising pagan governments, the conciliar sect fulfills Masonic goals condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The State must separate from the Church” (Error #55).
Violence does not solve anything
This pacifist slogan contradicts Catholic just war doctrine (Summa Theologica II-II Q40) and insults Cristero martyrs who took up arms against tyranny. St. Thomas teaches: “Those who wage just war are peacemakers” (II-II Q40 A1). The conciliar sect’s embrace of this false nonviolence constitutes apostasy from the martyrs it pretends to honor.
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Cardinal encourages Mexicans to demand authorities bring criminals to justice (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026