Conciliar Sect Commemorates Cristero War: Relativizing Martyrdom to Legitimize Religious Liberty Heresy
The EWTN News portal reports on a conference held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, October 7–9, 2026, titled “Viva Cristo Rey! Centenary of the Cristero Epic.” The event, sponsored by the Cátedra Anacleto González Flores, gathered functionaries of the conciliar sect—including the Mexican ambassador to the Holy See, Alberto Medardo Barranco Chavarría; Rodrigo Guerra López, secretary of the so-called “Pontifical Commission for Latin America”; and the Italian politician Rocco Buttiglione—to discuss the 1926–1929 Cristero uprising in Mexico. The article frames the conflict as a debate between “martyrs or rebels,” highlighting Buttiglione’s defense of the Cristeros’ “courage” despite “mistakes,” and Guerra López’s appeal to “Pope” Leo XIV’s teaching on a “disarmed and disarming peace.” The piece concludes with speculation about a potential visit by the antipope Leo XIV to Mexico for the 2031 Guadalupe centenary. This conference is not a commemoration of Catholic resistance but a calculated operation to reinterpret the Cristero War through the lens of the heresy of religious liberty, thereby legitimizing the conciliar sect’s surrender to the secular state.