The Catholic News Agency portal (January 5, 2026) reports on “Cardinal” José Francisco Robles Ortega’s call for Mexicans to demand authorities prosecute criminals. The conciliar sect’s representative in Guadalajara decries extortion rackets forcing small businesses to close and laments organized crime recruiting teenagers. While acknowledging Mexico’s 93.2% impunity rate and ranking among the world’s most violent nations, he reduces peacebuilding to personal introspection and family vigilance. The article concludes with references to upcoming Cristero War centennial commemorations, framing the 1920s Catholic resistance as mere historical grievance rather than living martyrdom.
Naturalistic Reduction of Justice to Secular Enforcement
Robles Ortega’s insistence that authorities possess a “mandate to protect us” deliberately omits the prima causa of social order: The divine mandate for civil rulers to submit to Christ the King. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) established that “rulers of nations must publicly honor and obey Christ” since “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” By treating criminal justice as a purely administrative problem, this “cardinal” commits the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which rejected the notion that “the State is the source of all rights” (Error 39).
The suggestion that peace originates in human hearts through vague “harmony with God’s loving plan” constitutes modernist equivocation. True peace derives from adherence to the regnum Christi, as the same encyclical teaches: “Nations will not have peace until they turn to the reign of Our Savior.” Robles Ortega’s silence on Mexico’s abortion legalization (2023), same-sex “marriage” (2022), and transgender ideology reveals his sect’s complicity in uprooting divine law.
Betrayal of Cristero Martyrs’ Legacy
The article’s reference to the Cristero War centennial demonstrates the conciliar sect’s historical revisionism. While acknowledging the “200,000 martyrs” who resisted Plutarco Elías Calles’ persecution, Robles Ortega reduces their sacrifice to a struggle for “fundamental rights” rather than defense of Christ’s social reign. This aligns with Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty denounced in Lamentabili Sane (1907), which condemned the view that “man may find the way of eternal salvation in any religion” (Error 16).
The Cristeros understood what this “cardinal” dare not admit: That governments outlawing Catholic worship incur ipso facto excommunication under Canon 2334 of the 1917 Code. Pius XI’s Iniquis Afflictisque (1926) praised the Cristeros as defenders of “the rights of Almighty God and His Church,” not mere protesters against policy overreach. By treating their martyrdom as past grievance rather than present model, Robles Ortega betrays their legacy.
Modernist Omissions as Grave as Heresies
Most damning is the article’s complete omission of supernatural remedies for Mexico’s crisis. No mention of Eucharistic reparation, Marian consecration, or the Immaculate Heart’s triumph – only humanistic appeals to “family vigilance” and bureaucratic enforcement. This follows the conciliar sect’s pattern of replacing sacramental economy with social work, exactly as Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Modernists reduce the Church to purely human dimensions as a charitable organization.”
When Robles Ortega claims “violence opens wounds that do not heal,” he ignores the Church’s teaching on just resistance to tyranny. St. Thomas Aquinas (II-II Q.42 A.2) affirmed that “it is the usurper who is guilty of sedition” when citizens overthrow godless regimes. The Cristeros embodied this principle, whereas today’s conciliar “bishops” parrot UN sustainability goals while Mexican drug cartels sacrifice children to Santa Muerte.
Mexico’s descent into chaos directly results from rejecting Christ’s Kingship – a rejection enabled by Robles Ortega’s own sect. Until Mexico’s authorities and people kneel before the Rex Regum, no policing strategy or “dialogue” will avail. As the Cristero motto proclaimed: ¡Viva Cristo Rey!
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Cardinal encourages Mexicans to demand authorities bring criminals to justice (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026