[Sherman Logan]

http://www.wvinter.net/~haught/Cristero.htm

Father Jose Vega was particularly notorious. He reportedly had a train full of civilians doused with gasoline and ignited in revenge for the death of his brother in combat. Not exactly Christ-like.

Many hundreds of rural schoolteachers were also assassinated before, during and after the war by those who thought the Church should instruct children.

[boatbums]

Thanks for the link. Interesting history lesson. Do you have an idea which “side” the film portrays positively?

[RobbyS]

Well, it was a religious war, like that in the Vendee during the French Revolution. The government was in the hands of men hostile to the Church AND to the Catholic Faith. It was part of the Terror. I said a religious War. The neo-apollonian faith of the Jacobins (free-masonry,really) vs. the Catholics. A similar suppression of the Church took place during then Russian Civil War, where more than 1000 Orthodox priests were executed by the Reds. Anything to suppress "feudalism." The war in Mexico was similar.

[Pyro7480]

"Vega was a priest in name only who entered the seminary under the pressure of his family and who made no pretense of living a virtuous life or of remaining celibate. Indeed, Vega was renowned for his cruelty and Cardinal Davila, deemed him a 'black-hearted assassin.'"

Between that and the train incident, which was partially a train robbery, he wasn't exactly a model character all around.