Mexican Prelate Distorts Cristero Martyrs’ Legacy With Modernist Revisionism
EWTN News reports on Auxiliary “Bishop” Pedro Mena’s reflections regarding the centenary of Mexico’s Cristero War (1926-1929), framing it as a “controversial” historical event requiring “discernment” rather than a heroic Catholic resistance against Masonic persecution. The Yucatán prelate claims elementary schools omitted this history – a damning admission of Mexico’s entrenched anti-Catholicism – yet his analysis ignores the war’s theological roots in Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which established Christ’s social kingship months before the conflict erupted. Mena reduces the Cristero martyrs to pedagogical tools for creating “mature Christians” while embracing the very religious indifferentism their blood was shed to oppose.