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.
Betrayal of Martyrological Memory
The Cristero uprising constituted a legitimate defense of Catholic civilization against Calles’ regime that criminalized public worship, confiscated churches, and executed priests. Pius XI’s encyclical Iniquis Afflictisque (1926) explicitly endorsed armed resistance, stating:
“Neither the sacred ministers nor the Catholics have done anything to merit such treatment. If they are enduring it now, it is because they have refused to be unfaithful to their duties and to their God.”
Mena’s assertion that the conflict had “virtues, flaws, excesses” constitutes blasphemy against the 25 canonized Cristero martyrs and 40,000 slain Catholics. His appeal to Tertullian’s “blood of martyrs” maxim rings hollow while neglecting to demand Mexico’s public repentance for the leyes de sangre (blood laws) that triggered the persecution.
Conciliar Surrender to Masonic Statecraft
The 1992 constitutional “reforms” praised by Mena granted religious liberty – an abomination condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) and Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864):
“Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” (Error #15)
By accepting these reforms, Mexico’s hierarchy legitimized the anti-Catholic 1917 Constitution’s core premise: that the state, not Christ the King, regulates religious expression. Mena’s admission of “occasionally tense” church-state relations reveals the conciliar sect’s impotence before secular powers – a direct repudiation of Cristero banners bearing “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”
Evangelization as Psychosocial Engineering
Mena’s concern about whether “evangelization today creates mature Christians” exposes modernism’s anthropocentric shift. Contrast his therapeutic language – “engaging youth through social media,” “making them think” – with Pius X’s prescription in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“The Church is without life… if she permits the removal of any part of Catholic doctrine.”
The Cristero martyrs formed youth through Eucharistic devotion and Roman Catechism memorization, not “dialogue” with Christ-hating regimes. That Mena cites John Paul II’s 1979 Mexico visit – where the antipope violated laws prohibiting clerical attire – illustrates the conciliar sect’s pattern of normalizing sacrilege while whitewashing persecution.
Silence on Neo-Cristero Persecution
Notably absent is any mention of Mexico’s current martyrdom: 24 priests murdered since 2018, cartels decapitating catechists, and 13,000+ churches forcibly closed during COVID lockdowns. This omission proves the conciliar hierarchy’s complicity with globalist powers executing Quo Primum‘s (1570) prophetic warning:
“Should anyone dare attempt any action contrary to this Our order, let him know that he has incurred the wrath of Almighty God.”
The Cristeros fought to restore the social kingship of Christ; today’s hirelings negotiate their surrender to Antichrist.
Source:
‘History is a great teacher’: A Mexican bishop’s reflections on the Cristero War (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.01.2026