The Catholic News Agency portal reports on statements by “Cardinal” José Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara, Mexico, urging citizens to “demand” authorities fulfill their duty to combat crime (January 5, 2026). The article describes Mexico’s ongoing violence crisis, with organized crime extorting businesses and recruiting youth, while acknowledging decreased homicide rates in 2025. The “cardinal” connects societal peace to personal harmony with God and references the upcoming Cristero War centennial, framing it as a defense of religious freedom. This naturalistic approach to Mexico’s spiritual crisis exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic social principles.
Subordination of Supernatural Order to Secular Governance
Robles’ exhortation that “authorities have a mandate to protect us” constitutes a fundamental inversion of Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat (Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands). The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Proposition 39). By urging Mexicans to seek solutions through civil authority rather than through the restoration of Christ’s social reign, the “cardinal” embraces the very errors condemned by Pius IX.
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishes the only remedy for societal disorder: “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.” The article’s silence about Mexico’s systemic abandonment of Catholic principles – from abortion legalization to attacks on marriage – reveals the conciliar sect’s complicity in creating the spiritual vacuum filled by cartel violence.
Naturalization of the Cristero Martyrs’ Legacy
The reference to the Cristero War centennial demonstrates doctrinal treachery:
failing to respect the “fundamental right” to religious freedom “was the cause of the uprising of the Cristero War.”
This reduction of the Cristero martyrs’ sacrifice to a defense of pluralism constitutes blasphemy against their witness. The Cristeros took up arms against Article 130 of Mexico’s 1917 Constitution which declared: “The law recognizes no juridical personality in the religious groups known as churches.” Their battle cry was ¡Viva Cristo Rey!, not “religious freedom” – a condemned Vatican II innovation.
Pius XI’s 1925 encyclical Quas Primas provides the authentic Catholic response to persecution: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.” The conciliar sect’s celebration of “religious freedom” (Dignitatis Humanae 2) directly contradicts the Cristeros’ defense of Christ the King’s exclusive rights over nations.
Psychological Self-Help Replaces Sacramental Solution
The article promotes Robles’ therapeutic approach to violence:
“peace is born and nurtured in the heart of each and every person… being at peace in our own hearts, in harmony with God.”
This echoes the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 58): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” Authentic Catholic teaching maintains that peace flows from grace through the sacraments, not psychological self-actualization. The Council of Trent defined that justification requires “the instrumental cause is the sacrament of baptism” (Session VI, Chapter VII) – a truth conspicuously absent from the “cardinal’s” analysis.
Structural Complicity with Criminal Networks
While decrying cartel recruitment of youth, the article ignores how conciliar policies enabled this crisis:
- Abandonment of Catholic education for “values-free” schooling (contra Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri)
- Destruction of the family through annulment factories and contraceptive mentality
- Replacement of Eucharistic devotion with anthropocentric “encounters”
The 93.2% impunity rate for crimes directly results from dismantling Mexico’s Catholic legal foundations. As Leo XIII taught in Immortale Dei: “There is no power except from God… the right to rule is not bound up with any special mode of government.” By treating the Mexican state as legitimate despite its anti-Catholic laws, the conciliar hierarchy shares responsibility for the chaos.
Conclusion: From Social Kingship to Socialist Subversion
This report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s program: reduce Catholicism to a NGO providing spiritual comfort to secular states. The Cristeros fought against this exact error – the Mexican government’s claim to absolute power over the Church. That today’s “cardinal” celebrates their sacrifice while collaborating with the same secularist project reveals the depth of apostasy. As Our Lord warned: “So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32-33). Mexico’s only hope lies in rejecting the conciliar counterfeit and returning to the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
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Cardinal encourages Mexicans to demand authorities bring criminals to justice (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026