Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception - Annual Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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GATE-IEDRAL CO OUR PATRONESS AND INSPIRATION 48

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OOCATHEDRAL COLLEGE The Persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico OUR hundred and seventeen years ago, when Cortez with his six hundred venturesome conquistadores disembarked on the shores of Mexico, a strange and weird country lay before him. A New World civilization, three or four thousand years later than those of the Old World, prevailed under which the inhabitants worshiped their gods in a gruesome and terrible man- ner. The Aztecs, for thus were the people of that region called, yearly butch- ered thousands of humans before their god, Huitzilipotli. The stench of human blood and degrading cannibalism reeked throughout the land. Today in Mexico the clock has been put back four centuries and again we behold the period of human sacrifices. The scene, however, is slightly altered. Instead of bodies the rulers of Mexico are butchering the souls of the children before the Moloch of the Mexican Communist totalitarian state. Mexico of today reeks with the stench of moral corruption, systematically and deliberately planned by the high priests of Bolshevism. The innocent minds of children are being perverted by the false and vicious doctrines of Com- munism and Atheism. The godless, satanic minority who hold the reins of the government are making a determined and concerted effort to wipe out all religion from the minds and hearts of sixteen millions of trusting, simple souls. They would make a practical sacrifice at the altars of Marx and Lenin, their gods, a sacrifice entailing the eternal welfare of an entire nation. Before undertaking a discussion of the situation in Mexico at the present time it is necessary to obtain a glimpse of the background and beginnings of the prevalent religious persecution. It is entirely wrong to suppose that the opposition to the Church on the part of the government is of recent origin. Calles was by no means the author of the anti-religious movement, nor were Obregon and Carranza before him. They merely renewed and intensified the antagonism which has existed between the Church and State since l833, when the North American Freemasons instigated a persecution of the Catholic Church in a futile endeavor to wean the people away from all religion. At the time of the inception of this persecution, greedy and avaricious men were in power, unscrupulous individuals, who coveted the wealth of the Church. The subversive propaganda of Freemasonry found fertile fields in the minds of these government officials, who saw an opportunity of confiscating the wealth and property of the Church. This explains why the Church and State have remained opposed for so many years. The State, to make legal the seizure of Church property, forced the acceptance of legislation contrary to the principles of Catholicism. Any objection on the part of the Church might be construed as a move against the State and would leave her open to the assaults of her enemies on the grounds that she opposed the established and recognized government. The confiscation of Church property would then be ordered to combat the enemy of law and order. The excuse for persecuting the Church, then, was based on the assumption SU