Mexico’s Christ the King Pilgrimage: Mass Apostasy in Guise of Piety

The EWTN News portal reports that approximately 70,000 young people participated in a January 31 pilgrimage to the Christ the King monument on Cubilete Hill in Guanajuato, Mexico. Organized by the “Witness and Hope” movement, the event commemorated the centenary of the Cristero War (1926-1929), wherein Catholics resisted anti-clerical persecution. “Bishop” Víctor Aguilar Ledesma of Celaya declared the massive turnout disproves claims of youth disaffection from the “Church,” while “Archbishop” Joseph Spiteri, Vatican nuncio, urged pilgrims to become “seeds of hope” transforming society. The gathering constitutes one of Mexico’s largest religious events in decades, celebrated as evidence of vibrant faith among youth.

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Naturalistic Spectacle Masks Doctrinal Vacuum

This ostentatious display of numerical strength epitomizes the neo-church’s substitution of sensus catholicus with crowd psychology. Quas Primas explicitly teaches that Christ’s kingship demands “not only private individuals but rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ” (Pius XI, §19). Yet the event conspicuously avoids demanding Mexico’s submission to the Social Reign of Christ the King, reducing faith to emotional gatherings. Where St. Pius X condemned the “cult of the human” in Pascendi (§39), this pilgrimage inverts true worship into anthropocentric celebration.

“Young people in Mexico have faith.” – “Bishop” Aguilar

Such statements commit the heresy of implicit faith condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 15), equating mere physical presence with supernatural virtue. Not a single mention is made of sacramental validity, doctrinal formation, or the necessity of membership in the una vera ecclesia for salvation – the very foundations Cristero martyrs died defending. Their battle cry “¡Viva Cristo Rey!” invoked the integral Catholic social order, not this vacuous emotionalism.

Conciliar Betrayal of Cristero Martyrs

The pilgrimage’s commemoration of the Cristero War constitutes historical revisionism. These martyrs resisted a regime enforcing Articles 3, 5, 24, 27, and 130 of Mexico’s 1917 Constitution – laws prohibiting public worship, clerical attire, religious education, and Church property ownership. Yet today’s conciliar sect collaborates with the same Masonic principles through:

• The Vatican II declaration Dignitatis Humanae, granting false “right to religious freedom” condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (§13-15)
• John Paul II’s 1992 constitutional reforms recognizing Mexico’s “secular state”
• “Bishop” Aguilar’s silence on Mexico’s ongoing constitutional prohibitions against Catholic political action

Pius XI’s encyclical Iniquis Afflictisque (1926) explicitly supported armed Cristero resistance against anti-Catholic regimes, whereas contemporary pseudo-clergy parrot Spiteri’s call to change “unjust structures” through dialogue – precisely the pacifist defeatism St. Pius X condemned as “tainted with the spirit of the apostasy” (Notre Charge Apostolique).

Counterfeit Sacraments and Invalid Ministry

The article’s reference to “closing Mass” constitutes material sacrilege. The conciliar sect’s Novus Ordo Missae – fabricated by Annibale Bugnini’s Consilium in 1969 – cannot offer valid Eucharist according to:

1. Canon 13 §1 of the Council of Trent: “If anyone says that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church… may be contemned, let him be anathema.”
2. St. Pius V’s bull Quo Primum, establishing perpetual validity of the Tridentine Mass
3. Theological consensus that invalid sacramental form invalidates consecration

Moreover, “Archbishop” Spiteri and “Bishop” Aguilar possess doubtful orders due to post-1968 liturgical reforms. As Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) dogmatically defined, defective rites cannot confer Holy Orders. These functionaries thus lack authority to preach or administer sacraments, rendering the pilgrimage spiritually barren.

“That is the challenge we take… guided by love for one’s neighbor.” – Andrea Perea, “Witness and Hope”

This vague humanitarianism echoes the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili (Proposition 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into… liberal Protestantism.” Not once does Perea mention repentance, grace, or the Four Last Things – the authentic “formation” Cristero martyrs received.

Omission of Ecclesial Catastrophe

The article’s gravest flaw lies in ignoring Mexico’s catastrophic ecclesial reality. While 70,000 youth climb Cubilete Hill:

• Mexico reports only 4.8% Sunday Mass attendance among Catholics (2025 survey)
• The conciliar sect has closed 1,283 parishes since 2015 due to vocational collapse
• Mexico City’s “Archbishop” Carlos Aguiar promotes pagan rituals in Catholic churches

This dissonance exposes the event as propaganda. True Catholic action follows St. Vincent Ferrer’s model: public preaching of judgment, calls to penance, and refusal to commune with heretics. Until pilgrims denounce the conciliar sect and seek valid sacraments, their procession constitutes what St. John Eudes called “a parade of the damned,” invoking Christ’s name while trampling His Church.

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Source:
70,000 young people make pilgrimage to Mexico’s Christ the King monument   (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.02.2026