Posted on 06/10/2012 12:39:05 PM PDT by IbJensen
No wonder the majority of Mexicans were illiterate as the Catholic Church operated the educational system and communism and Christianity cannot co-exist.
We saw it last weekend here in Los Angeles. It is very well done, gripping, so moving. I lived in Mexico City after high school and studied Latin American history to some depth, as well as speaking Spanish fluently. I was never taught this history.
Many of the priests and nuns, convents-full, came to southern California during this era, another fact I had never known until 2 years ago, when this history was presented at the local retreat center near our Catholic church.
There was a movie starring Henry Fonda and Pedro Armandarez about a fugitive Mexican priest during this shameful era. I believe the title was The Fugitive? There was also a novel from which the movie was adapted.
I recall reading the book as well. It was The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.
Saw the movie a week ago Friday and thought it was very well done. I did not know anything about this aspect of Mexican history. Very sad that America supported the commies.
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Studied South and Central American history in college and worked in Mexican travel for a number of years. Never heard of this. Its amazing how the left can control information.
Homeschooling parents may find this intersting. Some may want to include this in the history cirriculum, or at least introduce it to their children and gague their reactions.
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It’s an excellent movie, and few people in either the US or Mexico know about this period of history. Incidentally, the US supported Calles against the Cristeros and sent him weaponry and airplanes to use against the Catholics.
Few people know that the “Republicans” (who were dominated by Communists and finally actually run and supplied by Russia) in Spain killed more than 13,000 priests, nuns and Catholic lay leaders before Franco was successful in putting a stop to it. Again, guess which side the US supported...or at any rate, which side was supported by US “intellectuals” and leaders, although we never provided any official military support.
I read about Father Miguel Pro in the Catholic comic book “Treasure Chest” in the 1950’s, in a story called “Mexican Martyr”. It depicted him giving absolution to his brothers Roberto & Humberto in prison before he is led to the firing squad where he shouts his final prayer, “Long live Christ the King!”
Unfortunately, atheism isn’t our only enemy nowadays.
Catholics really need to support this movie... it will send a message to Hollywood that these kind of movies can make good money. Then hopefully more of these movies will be made instead of the putrid filth they usually put out.
Threats to religious freedom come in many forms—some hard, like during the Cristero War; some softer, if no less lethal to the first freedom. One way to blunt the hard threats is to stand firmly against the softer threats and to name those threats for what they are. “For Greater Glory” will inspire and encourage those already committed to defending religious freedom today. It is even more important, though, that those who haven’t yet seen the threat, or who deny that it exists, ponder this powerful depiction of the nearby and not-so-distant past, for the sake of the present and future."
It’s rated R for a reason. The violence is just awful. The torture of the young Jose was more than I could take, and I closed my eyes and ears.
The McClatchy review of the movie repeated the old canard that the Calles government was opposed by an alliance of Church leaders and landowners. No wonder the US did not se Castro for what he was.The Left is blind to his sort of tyrranny and blames Cuba’s present state on the US boycott.
>Barack Obama is not Plutarco Elias Calles<
Maybe not but they both came from the same mind set and if the adherents of that mind set succede in consolidating the power they have acumulated over the past one hundred years they will, by their god Marx, implement the same pograms here and now thatr they implemented then in Mexico.
Maybe not but they both came from the same mind set and if the adherents of that mind set succeed in consolidating the power they have accumulated over the past one hundred years they will, by their god Marx, implement the same pogroms here and now that they implemented then in Mexico.
Please ignore post 18. The spell check gave no indication and I did not preview. sorry
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