Obregon was justly terminated with extreme prejudice after a lengthy career of service to the Mexican reds and persecution of Catholics, about twelve years after the official state murder of Fr. Miguel Pro.
When Obregon met justice, the enraged reds arrested another priest, Miguel Pro's brother, on the hilarious charge that they regarded him as culpable because he may have heard the confession of Obregon's assassin.
I don't make much of a habit of praising FDR or Cordell Hull but, as Roosevelt was facing internal rebellion in the Demonrat Party over his plans for a third term, having lost the support of Vice President John Nance Garner, Joseph Patrick Kennedy (the patriarch), and Postmaster Jim Farley, among many others, he received a delegation from the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus who demanded intervention on behalf of the brother of the martyred Miguel Pro lest normally Democrat Catholic laymen consider whether FDR was indifferent to Mexico's planning to murder another Fr. Pro. FDR called Hull in their presence and directed action in the form of credible threats of military intervention unless the second Father Pro was released forthwith. The Mexicans complied and released the priest. This story is reported in a one volume official history of the Knights of Columbus (commissioned by the K of C on its 100th anniversary in the early 1980s) called Faith and Freedom by one Kaufman.
"Histories" trying to establish some phony moral equivalency between the historic Roman Catholic faith of Mexico and the unfortunate criminally corrupt communist gang regime of the Institutional Revolutionary Party may make for terrific Marxism or anti-clericalism but they aren't very good or reliable history.
For the most part, those who cozy up to the PRI also continue to have sticking in their craw the fact that Francisco Franco demolished their beloved "Republican" communists and anarchists in Spain who merely slaughtered half the priests and nuns (raping many of them before they were martyred) and burned sixty percent of the Roman Catholic churches in that country.
Well, as they said in Spain, as well as in Mexico, Viva Cristo Rey!!!
I'm not the person to turn to for rulings on moral equivalency. That would be God.
However, it is quite impossible to read an unbiased history of Mexico without concluding that if the Catholic Church of Mexico had not itself become criminally corrupt the Mexican Revolution of 1910 would never have occurred.
Please note I speak of the Mexican Church as an institution, not individuals within that Church. The same is true of the Renaissance Church, which led directly to the Protestant Reformation and the French Church which led directly to the French Revolution.
The present Pope doesn't seem to have trouble recognizing that at times the Church has lost sight of its true mission and become overly focused on its material possessions.
Obregon was justly terminated with extreme prejudice after a lengthy career of service to the Mexican reds and persecution of Catholics, about twelve years after the official state murder of Fr. Miguel Pro.
Mr. Obregon was murdered by an artist who was drawing his picture in a cafe. There is wide difference of opinion in Mexico to this day as to whether he was good or bad for Mexico. He did apparently finish up the main fighting part of the Revolution, which was good for almost everybody.
His murder led directly to the formation of the PRI, which was not in existence when Miguel Pro was executed. This assassination, as would be expected, resulted in increased restrictions and persecution of Catholics in Mexico.