Many Mexicans are Catholic, but Mexico doesn't have a very Catholic history. It's been a place of horrific persecution against the Church. I've been told by a Priest that President Fox is Mexico's first practicing Catholic president.
Our Lady of Guadalupe has already seen the victory though.
I thought, and I could be wrong, that the Spanish brough Catholicism to Mexico, and, therefore, the Catholic church in Mexico has been well established.
I thought, and I could be wrong, that the Spanish brough Catholicism to Mexico, and, therefore, the Catholic church in Mexico has been well established.
You fellows frequently post disinformation. However, you post it in the WRONG place. Many of us here are very familiar with many topics and Mexican history is one of them. When Benito Juarez came to power in Mexico, the Catholic church controlled nearly 1/2 of the real estate in that country. ONE HALF. And, the church properties were TAX EXEMPT. He told them they could only have the land where the building stood. They incited Eugenia of France, empress to Napoleon III, to push for an attack by France to restore the Catholic dominance. Maximilian was installed as emperor in Mexico and shortly thereafter the Mexicans came back and overthrew and executed him. Part of this whole affair was the Cristero Rebellion in which ignorant peasants were convinced to fight for the Catholic church's cause and then abandoned when the church went with the established government after seeing "mene mene tekel upharsin" so to speak written on the wall.
How someone can know the history of the Catholic church's involvement in politics throughout time and still remain Catholic absolutely blows my mind. No where in the New Testament do I read of a role for the church of setting the political playing field in any secular governing situation. No where.