The ACI Prensa portal reports that the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM) issued a statement on the 216th anniversary of the Grito de Dolores, acknowledging political progress while lamenting persistent “open wounds” of violence, kidnappings, corruption, and inequality. The document calls for freedom of expression and religion as fundamental human rights, invokes Our Lady of Guadalupe as the “heart and soul of our people” in service of national reconciliation, and boasts of the Church’s social infrastructure as proof of its indispensable role in Mexican society. This statement is not a pastoral exhortation but a political manifesto of the conciliar sect, reducing the Kingship of Christ to a vague spiritual accompaniment of liberal democracy and substituting the supernatural mission of the Church for NGO-style humanitarianism.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Bishops” as Functionaries of the Secular State
The text emanates not from true successors of the Apostles, but from the usurpers of the episcopal sees who have occupied the structures of the Church in Mexico since the conciliar revolution. They speak not with the voice of Ecclesia docens but as administrators of a paramasonic structure perfectly integrated into the Masonic project of the Mexican State — a State born from the anti-Catholic Revolution of 1810, consolidated in the anti-clerical Constitution of 1917, and responsible for the martyrdom of the Cristeros whom these very “bishops” now cynically invoke.
The declaration that “the Church is not a guest in Mexico: It has been part of the country’s fabric since before the state even existed” is a masterpiece of historical falsification. The true Church — the Ecclesia Catholica — was indeed the soul of New Spain, but the neo-church of the CEM is the illegitimate offspring of the Masonic Republic, recognized and subsidized by the State after the modus vivendi of 1992. These “bishops” are not the heirs of the bishops who excommunicated the insurgents Hidalgo and Morelos; they are the chaplains of the regime that desecrated their memory.
Religious Liberty: The Heresy Condemned by the Syllabus and Quas Primas
The centerpiece of the statement is the demand for “protecting and safeguarding” freedom of expression and religion, explicitly defined as “not limited to worship within a temple but encompasses the right to believe, to educate in accordance with one’s own convictions, to associate, to serve, and to contribute publicly to the common good.” This is the condemned error of libertas ecclesiae severed from veritas catholica — the very liberalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (1864):
Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.”
Proposition 78: “Hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.”
Proposition 79: “Moreover, it is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism.”
And by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925):
“It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category; then it was subordinated to secular power… further still went those who conceived that the divine religion should be replaced by a natural religion, a natural inner impulse.”
The CEM’s “religious freedom” is the libertas perditionis — the liberty of perdition — which places the true religion on par with false sects, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam, and Santa Muerte. There is no right to error. Error non habet iura (error has no rights). The only true religious liberty is the liberty of the Church to fulfill her divine mandate docere, sanctificare, regere without State interference — a liberty these “bishops” traded for legal personality and tax exemptions in 1992.
The Cristero War Profaned: Martyrs Reduced to Prophets of “Freedom of Conscience”
The reference to the “centennial remembrance of the Religious Conflict (the Cristero War)” as “a fratricidal conflict between brothers who shared the same faith, heart, and culture” is a sacrilegious falsification of history. The Cristeros did not die for “freedom of conscience” — a Masonic slogan — but for Cristo Rey and the Social Kingship of Christ. They fought against the very Masonic State that today’s “bishops” serve. Their battle cry was “¡Viva Cristo Rey!” not “Viva la libertad religiosa!”
The “bishops” write: “When freedom of conscience is restricted, the entire nation suffers.” Quas Primas teaches the opposite: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Cristero War was not caused by “restriction of freedom of conscience” but by the Masonic State’s attempt to destroy the Social Reign of Christ — a Reign these “bishops” have abandoned.
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Instrumentalized for Nationalist Syncretism
The declaration that “Our Lady of Guadalupe… continues to be the heart and soul of our people” and that the “Intercontinental Guadalupana Novena calls us to make that love an encounter, reconciliation and justice” strips the Morenita del Tepeyac of her supernatural mission. She did not appear to build a “national identity” uniting “Indigenous person, the person of European descent born in Mexico, and the mestizo in a single home.” She appeared to demand a temple where she could show her love to convert souls to the true Faith — ut christiani fiat.
The “bishops” present Guadalupe as the patroness of a civil religion, the spiritual glue of the Mexican nation-state. This is Guadalupanism without Catholicism — a syncretic idol serving the patria rather than the Regnum Christi. The true Guadalupe is the Stella Maris of the Conquista Espiritual, the Terror of Demons, the Conqueror of the Serpent — not the mascot of a Masonic republic that legalizes abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and euthanasia while these “bishops” issue communiqués.
The Social Gospel Substitutes the Supernatural Mission
The enumeration of “Caritas and its thousands of volunteers… schools, universities… migrant centers, soup kitchens, clinics… human rights advocacy centers… rebuilding of the social fabric” is the curriculum vitae of an NGO, not the ratio credendi of the Church. Nowhere is mentioned: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the salvation of souls, the conversion of sinners, the condemnation of sin, the Four Last Things, the Social Kingship of Christ.
This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the reduction of Christianity to a “religious movement” of social betterment. Proposition 59 of Lamentabili: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” The CEM’s “Church” is exactly this: a movement for “peace,” “justice,” and “reconciliation” — the three idols of Masonic humanism.
Electoralism as Pastoral Strategy
The call “on the eve of a new election season… for public debate to be worthy of the nation” with “an eye toward the June 2027 elections” reveals the partisan nature of the CEM. They are not shepherds warning the flock against wolves; they are political actors negotiating with the wolves for a seat at the table. The Syllabus condemns: “The civil power may prevent the prelates of the Church and the faithful from communicating freely and mutually with the Roman pontiff” (Prop. 49) — but today’s “prelates” communicate freely with the antipope in Rome and the Masonic politicians in Mexico City, while preventing the faithful from accessing the true Mass and true doctrine.
Theological Bankruptcy: No Christ the King, No Catholic State, No Salvation Outside the Church
The statement is a complete silence on the Social Kingship of Christ — the very doctrine Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat. Quas Primas declares: “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 CEM proposes instead a pluralistic Mexico where Christ is one option among many, where the Church “builds bridges” instead of proclaiming the Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
“Open communities, hands ready to serve, a voice to speak out without hatred, and the ability to build bridges where others erect walls” — this is the ecclesiology of the anti-church. The true Church erects walls: the walls of dogma, of morality, of the Sanctuary separating the holy from the profane. She does not “build bridges” to error; she converts the erring. Non est pax cum impugnantibus crucem Christi (There is no peace with those who fight against the Cross of Christ).
Conclusion: A Document of Apostasy
This statement is not a “warning of open wounds.” It IS the open wound — the gangrene of Modernism eating the flesh of the Church in Mexico. The “bishops” of the CEM have abdicated their divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify in favor of a secular messianism that serves the Masonic State. They have replaced Christ the King with “human rights,” the Conversion of Mexico with “national reconciliation,” the Holy Mass with “soup kitchens,” and Our Lady of Guadalupe with a nationalist totem.
“When the Son of man shall come, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)
In the Mexico of the CEM, He will find humanitarianism, dialogue, religious liberty, and Guadalupan nationalism — but the Catholic Faith survives only in the catacombs where true priests offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the faithful keep the Tradition entire. The CEM is not the Church in Mexico; it is the whited sepulcher of the conciliar sect. Sede vacante — the See is vacant, and these men are its squatters.
Source:
On Mexican independence day, bishops warn of country’s ‘open wounds’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.09.2026