Imagine going to confession on a Saturday afternoon only to find no priest available. You drive to nearby—or even distant—churches and encounter only frustrated parishioners facing the same situation. A couple with a new baby cannot find a priest to baptize him. The last time anyone in the group attended Mass was months ago. This nightmare gives some sense of the profound evil that gripped Mexico nearly a century ago. ... They seized control of the government and, in 1917, wrote a socialist constitution packed with anticlerical articles with the goal of marginalizing the Church’s influence—if not driving her from Mexico altogether. Backed by the full force of federal law, the Revolutionary Government confiscated all Church property, including hospitals, monasteries, convents, and schools. Priests were forbidden to wear clerics in public. They were not allowed to express opinions on politics, even in private conversation. They could not seek justice in the Mexican courts. To take a religious vow became a criminal act. All foreign clergy were deported. We keep getting closer, one step at a time. Certain religious tenants (consistent teaching over 2,000 years) is now something the government is dictating we must deny. In fact they require we actively participate in what we have always believes is evil. Instead of passing a law outlawing the practice of faith, they require the faithful to do what they know we can not. Then when we refuse, seize and destroy using the powers of the IRS and bureaucratic quagmire.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 13:02:45 +0000
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