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[Catholic Caucus] The Revolutionary Becomes a MartyrAbove: photo of the dead during the Ten Tragic Days, part of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Brigadier General Manuel Reyes Nava (1887-1927) initially joined the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), in 1912, serving alongside his brother Colonel Gabino Reyes Nava (?-1988), directly under the authority of another brother, Major General Valentin Reyes Nava (1884-1923), who led the 2nd Southern Division of the Liberation Army of the South, commanded by the handsome and...

[Catholic Caucus] The Rise and Fall of the Cristeros | Part 2Part 1Previously published in an earlier edition of Catholic Family News. Full article on https://catholicfamilynews.locals.com/By Mark Fellows“The Torch of Faith flickers, the sign of redemption is hidden, and the cries of the impious suffocate the voices of good men and the clamor of religion. Save us Lord, for we are dying!” Mexican Bishop Ruiz y Flores, a published prayer prayed on the last day of religious services in Mexico, July, 1926.The 1857 Laws of Reform sought to separate the Church in Mexico from the State. The 1917 Constitution sought...

THE CRISTEROS: They Died for God, Country & Christ the KingDriving northeasterly for a few minutes, about a mile out of town, the cars suddenly veered to the side of the road and rolled to a stop at El Puerto de Santa Teresa, a nondescript stretch along the primitive roadway that would develop into the Sombrerete-Chalchihuites Highway.Forced from their seats, the prisoners – Catholics: one priest and three laymen – stumbled from the cars on that August 15, 1926, forced down a parched slope of dirt, a graveyard of flora in the arid plateau’s xeric shrubland dotted with skeletal clumps...