****Is this the Catholics arent Christians thread?
I was thinking that he deserved to go to jail for giving up being a Catholic. /sarc.****
If I remember my history, when the French took Mexico and established Maximilian as emperor, the emperess Carlotta said one of her plans was to convert Mexico to the Catholic religion because too much of Mexico’s semi-catholic beliefs were tainted with Indian Paganism.
The state in the article, Chiapas, has one of the lowest percentages of Catholics in Mexico. Right now Islam seems to be winning converts there.