Cristero Martyrs Weaponized to Preach Condemned Religious Liberty by Antichurch
The EWTN News portal (ACI Prensa) reports that on August 15, 2026, approximately 15,000 faithful gathered at the Holy Places of Chalchihuites in Zacatecas, Mexico, to commemorate the centenary of the martyrdom of four Cristero saints: Luis Bátis Sáinz, Manuel Morales, Salvador Lara Puente, and David Roldán Lara. The celebration was presided over by Archbishop Joseph Spiteri, apostolic nuncio to Mexico and representative of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). In his homily, Spiteri extolled “freedom of conscience” and declared that “religious freedom protects not only Catholics… but also an individual’s right not to adhere to any religion,” framing the martyrs’ witness as a testament to “peaceful resistance,” “dialogue,” and building “a more just society grounded in solidarity.” The four were beatified and canonized by the heretic John Paul II. This spectacle prostitutes the blood of true martyrs for the Social Kingship of Christ to legitimize the Vatican II heresy of religious liberty, betraying the very Viva Cristo Rey! for which they died.
The Antichurch’s Theft of Martyrs for Liberal Propaganda
The conciliar sect occupying the Vatican has perfected the art of instrumentalizing sanctity to advance its apostate agenda. The Cristero martyrs died in odium fidei defending the integral rights of Christ the King over Mexican society against a Masonic, anti-clerical state. The article notes they were killed “amid the intensification of religious persecution under the government of Plutarco Elías Calles.” Yet the nuncio Spiteri, mouthpiece of the usurper Prevost, strips their sacrifice of its supernatural teleology. He reduces their confession to a generic plea for “freedom of thought and conscience” — the very Masonic shibboleths condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Error 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true”; Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”). The Cristeros did not die for “religious freedom” as a natural right; they died because Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. To present their martyrdom as a foundation for secular “dialogue” and “solidarity” is a diabolical inversion of Quas Primas, where Pius XI teaches that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”.
Religious Liberty: The Condemned Heresy Masquerading as Martyrdom’s Fruit
Spiteri’s declaration — “religious freedom protects not only Catholics or those who profess a particular faith but also an individual’s right not to adhere to any religion” — is a verbatim echo of Dignitatis Humanae, the false charter of the conciliar revolution. This proposition was explicitly anathematized by the perennial Magisterium. Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) condemned the “pestilential error” of “liberty of conscience.” Pope Pius IX in Quanta Cura (1864) and the Syllabus condemned the assertion that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduces more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Error 79). Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) taught that true liberty is libertas ad bonum, freedom for the truth, not autonomy from it. The nuncio’s words constitute a public profession of the heresy of indifferentism, placing the true religion on par with error and unbelief. As Pius XI warns in Quas Primas: “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category” — this is the “plague” of secularism/laicism the feast of Christ the King was instituted to combat. Spiteri does not combat it; he canonizes it.
Invalid Canonizations by a Heretical Antipope
The article states the four were “beatified by St. John Paul II on Nov. 22, 1992, and canonized by the same pontiff on May 21, 2000.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, John Paul II (Wojtyła) was a manifest heretic who automatically lost the papacy (ipso facto) long before these acts, rendering them null and void. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church”. Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church”. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code codifies this: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. Wojtyła’s public profession of false religions (Assisi 1986, kissing the Koran, praying in mosques and synagogues) constitutes notorious defection. Therefore, his “canonizations” possess zero juridical or theological weight. The true Church, enduring in the catacombs of Tradition, does not recognize these “saints” as canonized, though the martyrs themselves may enjoy the palma martyrii before God — a judgment reserved to Him alone, not to a heretical usurper.
The Nuncio’s Discourse: A Syllabus of Errors in Action
Every paragraph of Spiteri’s homily, as reported, drips with the vocabulary of the novus ordo religion: “peace and communion,” “dialogue, understanding, and listening,” “the most vulnerable and those on the margins,” “build the kingdom of God” (redefined as humanitarian solidarity). Not a single mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic State, the duty of public worship, the condemnation of liberalism, or the reality of Hell for unrepentant persecutors. This is the hermeneutic of rupture in full bloom. The nuncio warns: “Whenever the respect for freedom of conscience has been lacking… the results have always been very sad and tragic” — implying the Catholic confessional state (which suppresses public error) is “tragic.” This is Error 24 of the Syllabus: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.” Spiteri inverts the martyrdom: the Cristeros died resisting a state that lacked the true faith; Spiteri praises a “freedom” that guarantees the state’s right to be godless. He calls the martyrs’ resistance “peaceful,” omitting that they took up arms in a just war (bellum justum) under the banner of Cristo Rey. The article notes they were “shot to death” — executed by the Masonic regime. Spiteri’s “peaceful resistance” is a pacifist fabrication that neuters the Cristero’s fortitudo.
Betrayal of the Cristero Cry: Viva Cristo Rey, Not Viva Libertas Religiosa
The historical Cristero movement was explicitly counter-revolutionary and theocratic in the true sense: they fought for Dios, Patria, y Libertad — but “Libertad” meant the libertas Ecclesiae, the freedom of the Church to govern souls according to Christ’s law, not the Masonic “freedom of conscience.” The martyr Manuel Morales’ words — “Father, I am dying, but God does not die. He will look after my wife and my children” — testify to theological virtue, not political liberalism. Spiteri hijacks this credendum to preach dialogue with the world. Pius XI in Quas Primas states: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. The nuncio preaches a kingdom without the King, a “just society” built on solidarity (a Masonic substitute for caritas) rather than on subditio Christi. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15): the conciliar sect using the very altar of martyrdom to proclaim the rights of man against the rights of God.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy: The Conciliar Sect’s Perversion of Sanctity
This event is a microcosm of the post-1958 apostasy. The “pilgrimage” of eight days, the “shrine being built,” the “photographic exhibition” — all are liturgical theater staged by a false hierarchy. The Archbishop of Durango, Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez (ordained in the invalid novus ordo rite, consecrated by heretics), declares: “Blessed are those who have traveled this path, because those of us who live this experience have experienced God” — a subjective, experiential religion replacing fides qua creditur. The 15,000 faithful are sheep without a true shepherd, fed on the poison of religious liberty by wolves in miters. The source, EWTN/ACI Prensa, is a propaganda arm of the neo-church, sanitizing the revolution. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 58): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” — this is the Modernist principle animating the “re-reading” of the Cristero martyrdom. The true Catholic response is not to “commemorate” in the conciliar circus, but to restore the integral Faith, the true Mass, the true hierarchy, and the Social Kingship of Christ — for which the Cristeros actually bled. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
15,000 faithful and pope’s representative commemorate centenary of 4 Mexican martyrs (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.08.2026