Did the Church Excommunicate Mexican Catholics who supported Democracy?

[tafan]

My initial guess was that it was that two sides fell out along predictable sides of a class war. Church bishops/cardinals naturally allying themselves with big landowners vs. a populist movement centered around land reform of the peasant class and priests who serve them. I see from reading threads on this forum that communism is the major bugbear for Catholics, but this isn’t so in the Mexican situation.

This is not correct. In Mexico, it had little to do with the church allying themselvs with big landowners. That is because, from the very beginning of the Mexican state (and really even before), the landowers in Mexico were by and large anti-cleric. The issue was they fell on two sides of a war against the church, waged by the Mexican government.

Especially by the 1920s, the Mexican government had given most of the spols to various generations of cronies.

 

[puzzleannie]

A couple of weeks ago, my professor was talking about the history of democracy in Mexico. He mentioned that the Catholic Church excommunicated Mexican Catholics who supported separation of Church and state (or maybe it was for supporting democracy, I don’t really recall clearly) Did this really happen?

sorry your professor needs to learn Mexican history the revolutions in Mexico were not about democracy but about dictatorship
separation of Church and state meant separating priests and Catholics who helped them from their lives. read about the Mexican martyrs of the revolution

 

[Mojaverat]

He might be referring to the Mexican independence Day and President Benito Juarez’s regime. Father Miguel Hidalgo the “Father of Independence” in 1810, started a race war. Gathering a force of angry Indians and mestizos to kill any European Mexican they could find. They were eventually defeated by Royalist forces. Padre Hidalgo embraced the “Enlightenement” movement swiping Europe at that time, denied the authority of the Pope, the virgin birth of Jesus and clerical celibacy. The man had fathered 5 illegitimate children by two different women.
madmonarchist.blogspot.com/search?q=Hidalgo+

Benito Juarez was a Free Mason and very anti-Catholic. He passed laws that tried to expel the Catholic Church from Mexico. He also seized most of the Church land that poor peasants and Indians lived on; which in-turn caused them to be homeless. The constitution that he founded would be the basis for the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI as they are known as. He demanded that the country adopt his liberal ideals and that all Mexicans give up their Catholic faith. Mexico’s government is very liberal, they support abortion, gay marriage, and divorce. Benito Juarez may of outlawed the death penalty but that never stopped him from executing his enemies.

So to support Democracy in Mexico is to effectively support the destruction of the Church. So yes I can understand the Churches position, and as a Chicano I wish Mexico never broke away from Spain.

 

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