Exactly. These are indigenous folk quasi-religious cults, nothing more.
Traditional Catholicism is an entirely different thing.
The thread needs to be deleted.
I think the last line makes it clear that Mexican Catholics are different from regular Catholics. Don’t you?
“I was a pastor, and I have the experience to know some American Catholics. They weren’t like [Mexican Catholics]. The syncretism between Catholics that came to Mexico adopted every idol and every goddess [from the Aztec religion],” he said.
These Mexican Catholics or Mexicans with a Catholic heritage are likely associated and are still considerably influenced by a breakaway Mexican Catholic sect that is apparently officially defunct now but is still likely in its beliefs to be influential in many areas; “Traditionalist” was part of its name.
“Traditionalist Mexican-American Catholic Church: The Traditionalist Mexican-American Catholic Church (Iglesia Católica Tradicionalista mexicana-estadounidense), sometimes known as the Traditionalist Mexico-USA Tridentine Catholic Church, was an independent Catholic church in North America. They broke away from the Catholic Church over their veneration of Santa Muerte. They are primarily active in the border regions of the United States and Mexico and have a particular presence among the Mexican immigrant communities in major United States cities. David Romo Guillén has been the current archbishop and primate of the Church since 1993, but was arrested on 2011 due to criminal charges, and the church is now no longer operational.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditionalist_Mexican-American_Catholic_Church
How wimpy TRADITIONAL Catholicism has become!!
Bring back the Inquisition and be DONE with these folks!!