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To: Mrs. Don-o
I'd guess maybe 1 person in 100 knows about the Cristero war.

Go back and read some of my posts. Hung the rebels from the telephone poles, they did. The catholic priests instigated the revolution and then made peace with the government. After that, they betrayed the Cristeros to government troops looking for them so the government soldiers could kill them. Funny how few people know what happened or care.

101 posted on 04/01/2006 11:10:11 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin; hispanichoosier; sinkspur; Verginius Rufus; sitetest; Petronski; ...
Mene, you wrote: "The catholic priests instigated the [Cristero] revolution [in Mexico] and then made peace with the government. After that, they betrayed the Cristeros to government troops ..."

Your reading of the history of the Cristero War strikes me as being slapdash and simplistic. I am not accusing YOU of intellectual dishonesty, but it looks to me that your sources may be both partial (in the sense of incomplete) and partisan.

As you perhaps know, Canon Law held priests to a "higher standard of perfection" that included the rejection of any form of violence that would result in another person's death. The Code of Canon Law enacted in 1918, prohibited priests from carrying weapons.

In total, five priests took up arms in the Cristero War, in violation of their priestly vocation. A murkier question is whether they were supported by the Bishops of Mexico or the Pope. Officially, the Mexican episcopate never supported the rebellion, but by several accounts, the rebels had the episcopate's acknowledgement that their cause was legitimate.

Many more priests, and some bishops, like Bishop José Francisco Orozco y Jiménez of Guadalajara, firmly rejected armed rebellion, but remained with the rebels because they were unwilling to abandon their people. Some 25 of these were canonized as martyrs in 2000 by Pope John Paul II. (These were priests who did not take up arms, but refused to leave their flocks, and were executed by federal forces.)

Your picture of the Cristeros being first instigated and then betrayed by their priests is similar to many other posters' broad and inaccurate anti-Catholic statements which disfigure the discussion here at Free Republic.

A fuller discussion usually suffices to show these slanders as the distortions they are.

114 posted on 04/02/2006 7:28:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Not a tame Lion.)
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