Cristero Rebellion of 1926 Offers a Sober Warning Today & Cristero War | The war that divided Mexico Juan Miguel Zunzunegui..."Imagine the psychological, spiritual, and traditional impact on a people deeply rooted in their faith...[on learning] now on there will be no Mass, but there will also be no confessions...Catholic worship is canceled in Mexico"
Catholics in Canada and the United States are inclined to admire the popular piety of Mexico, looking forward to the upcoming 500th anniversary of the apparitions at Guadalupe in 2031.
But 100 years ago, Mexico was suffering a fierce anti-Catholic persecution. The administration of the sacraments was suspended for three years, and faithful Catholics were hunted down and killed. https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/desouza-cristero-rebellion]
https://youtu.be/ySYF63Q5YgI?is=1W1zlUR8hvxILeBa
The Cristero War was one more attempt to steal the soul of Mexico, because the soul of this country has been...
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...they have tried to destroy it, they have tried to steal it, they have tried to corrupt it ever since Mexico began its independent life.
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The Cristero War, folks, is a topic I generally refuse to discuss; those who follow me know that. It has been 100 years—100 years since the government decided that it also had to rule over the conscience of Mexicans. And those Jacobins who were in Mexico in 1926...
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...have their grandchildren in government today. That is why it is important to talk about the 100th anniversary of the Cristero War and...
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...understand the project of stealing Mexico's soul.
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One hundred years ago the Cristero War began. One hundred years ago. Notice that we have turned the Cristero War into an anecdote that is rarely discussed. Why is the Cristero War talked about so little? Because of something I tell you in all my talks and all my programs: governments exercise control and...
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...power. And a fundamental part of control and power is dominating, controlling, and writing the narratives. What was the...
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...Cristero War? No, it was not a bunch of religious fanatics taking up arms against the government. It was at least half of the Mexican people taking...
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...up arms against the Revolution. The Cristero War was a counterrevolution in all its glory. And the word...
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..."counterrevolution" and "counterrevolutionary." Obviously, the narratives controlled by the revolutionaries and their powers have always told you that it is something bad. But look...
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...you have to understand one thing: revolutions are for taking power. And power is meant to be exercised. And the power exercised after a revolution, historically...
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...speaking, from Robespierre until today, has always been authoritarian, imposing, totalitarian.
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That is power. A good man, a good woman, questions power. I know that today you have been conditioned to believe that...
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...power is good and that everything must be done within the State, nothing outside the State, and nothing against the State. That was the definition Mussolini, the...
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...father of fascism, gave of fascism. And that is what those who defend the current government defend.
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So, of course, this video is not for people with thin skin, not for the snowflake generation, not for those who are offended by everything, for those who tell me, "I like it when you talk about history, but when you get into politics I stop liking it." Look, ladies and gentlemen, studying the past is to understand the present...
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...it is not to pass the time. So let's pass the time and understand the present by talking about the 100 years of the Cristero War. Because on July 31...
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...1926, all the Catholic churches in Mexico were closed. That is how the...
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...Cristero War symbolically began. Let me say it again because what I just said is enormous. On July 31, 1926...
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...all the Catholic churches in Mexico were closed. For the first time in this...
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...territory, since the arrival of Hernán Cortés, Masses were suspended. Masses were suspended in a country that...
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...today is 82% Catholic. At that time it was 98% Catholic. Do you know why...
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...Mexico went from being 98% Catholic to 82% Catholic? Because there has always been, since the 19th century, a project of power and...
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...government that seeks to tear that away from Mexico. I was talking about stealing Mexico's soul. What is Mexico? It is terrible that...
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...we have to ask ourselves that at this point, but we still have not defined it. Mexico is a country and a people with certain fundamental cultural and historical characteristics.
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Hashtag: this does not depend on your opinion.
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Mexico is a Spanish-speaking, mestizo, and Christian country. You may not like it—that is your right—but that is what Mexico is, and...
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...that does not depend on your opinion. Mexico is a country where 94% of the inhabitants are native Spanish speakers. We are a Spanish-speaking country.
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Our way of speaking Spanish is full of Mayan and Nahuatl influences. Why? Because we have been a deeply...
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...mestizo country since 1521. And don't be racist—hashtag don't be racist either. I am talking about cultural mestizaje. That is the...
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...wonderful thing we are. And 80% of Mexicans today are Catholic, but up to 96% belong to other Christian denominations. Why?
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Because this is a country that was created from 1521 onward through the Catholic tradition, which no one renounced with...
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...independence. For those who start saying, "Oh, the spiritual conquest, they imposed religion to subjugate us."
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Well, the entire 19th-century liberal discourse and all the Jacobin discourse, such as that of Plutarco Elías Calles in the 20th century, revolves around telling you this, right?
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Christianity was something imposed in Mexico. Sure. And before that the worship of Huitzilopochtli was too. And before that the worship of Quetzalcoatl too. Religions...
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...always come from an elite. Religions are always something that is constructed. They are always related to power. There is always some degree of imposition and always some degree of...
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...a people who either want or do not want that religion. On July 31, 1926, a conflict began in which the people...
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...took up arms against the government because they were being forbidden to profess their faith. I remember that not long ago...
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...we had an event at the cathedral and the government sent its shock troops to prevent us from entering to attend Mass—and that happened in 2026, not in 1926. But anyway...
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...for the first time since the arrival of Hernán Cortés, on July 31, 1926, Masses were suspended throughout the...
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...national territory. The bells fell silent, and in that Mexico where every church had bells, that silence must have been deafening.
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Imagine the psychological, spiritual, and traditional impact on a people deeply rooted in their faith—and notice...
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...their sacraments. Because closing the churches means: from now on there will be no Mass, but there will also be no confessions, you cannot...
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...receive Communion, there will be no baptisms. There will be no anointing of the sick, no marriages. Catholic worship...
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...is canceled in Mexico. It seems like a triumph of the project to steal Mexico's soul, a project that was born with independence itself.... [ttps://chatgpt.com/translate/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid_search&c_id=23527963163&c_agid=193616260518&c_crid=795995986975&c_kwid=kwd-738008411&c_ims=&c_pms=9031934&c_nw=g&c_dvc=c&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23527963163&gbraid=0AAAAA-I0E5dUgctTkj185x6JQuoEWB--C&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-MDTBhCgARIsAKAkdlQdC1jT8zKpiEtC9Etjl1JyxGOfl48Zp4jfCDWwVIY5OqbhGgKOswMaAhKjEALw_wcB]
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
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Conclave Notes:
-- Open letter urges Pope Leo XIV to correct ‘scandalous incoherence’ in Amoris Laetitia...[Wow! Even notorious Popesplainer Fr.] Harrison warns that Pope Francis taught a ‘dangerous self-contradiction’ on Communion for the divorced and ‘remarried,’ petitioning Pope Leo to correct the record. [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/08/open-letter-urges-pope-leo-xiv-to.html]
-- Are the Cardinals who will participate in the upcoming conclave authentically appointed & morally justified in voting, or will the shadow of Francis's possible illegitimacy cast itself over the next papacy? [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2025/04/are-cardinals-who-will-participate-in.html]
-- 5 Dubia Questions for 1P5's Steve Skojec & All faithful Catholics especially Francis is definitely Pope Cardinals, Bishops & pundits [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/06/5-dubia-questions-for-steve-skojec.html]
Francis Notes:
l– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]
– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1
– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the [J6] DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.
Pray an Our Father now for America.
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