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Posted on 11/19/2007 7:12:48 PM PST by Pyro7480
MEXICO CITY, NOV. 19, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The cathedral of Mexico City closed its doors last weekend, after more than 100 political protesters disrupted Sunday Mass.
The decision was announced the same day by Armando Martínez, the president of the College of the Catholic Lawyers of Mexico, who said that the cathedral will not open again until the government can guarantee the security of the faithful and priests.
During the midday Mass at the cathedral Sunday, a group of members of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) interrupted the liturgy chanting slogans supporting Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the 2006 presidential candidate who lost by a slim margin to Felipe Calderón. López Obrador contested the results, raising allegations of electoral fraud, and proclaimed himself the "legitimate president" of Mexico.
The protesters also threatened the faithful, the priests and Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, archbishop of Mexico City, who was in Rome on Sunday.
"These are acts of aggression that we should not allow," said Martínez, who said the main concern is for the safety of the faithful present in the cathedral, as well as the cardinal, bishops and priests.
The demonstrators said they were provoked by church bells that chimed for an unusually long time, disrupting a rally in the central Zocolo square at which López Obrador was speaking. The dean of the cathedral, Rubén Ávila, told the newspaper El Universal that the bells rang for the normal time for a Sunday Mass.
In a statement released by Hugo Valdemar Romero, director of communication for the Archdiocese of Mexico, he called the event a "condemnable and cowardly act of terror, unequivocal expression of religious intolerance and of the hatred toward the Catholic Church."
Dear God! tell me that isn’t the communion rail which they have smashed to the floor!
Corruption, incompetence, destructive ideology ... it really stinks. If I were Mexican, I’d be trying to get out!
>> but also to get away from this very disruptive going ons by the radical left. <<
Alas, the group coming into America is more concentrated with the radical left; many are “reconquistadoras,” exporting the “glorious revolution” to the “gringos.”
Yes, it’s the communion rail. In reports in the Mexican press, it says they destroyed church furnishings, something not mentioned in the US press.
As in any bar fight, its easy to figure out who to ‘remove from the scene’ to defuse the situation.
More information, first paragraph of article from “La Cronica” (Mexican newspaper):
The followers of Manuel López Obrador ...caused damage at the Cathedral, harangued by Senator Rosario Ibarra, who heard the ringing of the church bells as a call to war, and responded to it with the cry, “Pederasts! Pederasts!” And how could anybody pass up such an opportunity, in the presence of the “legitimate one” [this group claims that their candidate won the Mexican presidential elections] and in the midst of the National Democratic Convention [not the same as the US version, but obviously spiritually identical].
And, of course, Marxists murdering priests, nuns and Catholic lay people during the Mexican revolution.
Commies hate the Church, and try to destroy her both by infiltration and frontal assault.
If the 'Rats lose in 2008, and it's close ... is this what we're in for?
BLOAT
To be fair, much of the damage was caused by the church goers themselves. While only 100 or so protesters entered the church there were 10,000 protesters in the plaza in front of the cathedral. When the protesters started entering the cathedral the worshipers in fear for their lives, tried to barricade them with pews and other church furnishings.
There is quite a bit of film footage of the melee, but I can find none on the net as of yet.
Not surprising considering that Marx, Lenin, and Mao had a burning hatred for all forms of religion. The other Marxists “thinkers” like Engels, Luxemburg, et al also spewed venom towards religious belief (especially Judeo-Christian expressions thereof).
It was total chaos. They overwhelmed the minimal church security, burst through the doors and just trashed the place. Overturned pews and seats, threw stuff around and committed a total sacrilege. And watching the film, it was obvious that there was nothing spontaneous about this. It had nothing to do with Church bells. They blame the Catholic Church for their candidate's defeat. Pure and simple.
I'd also dispute the figure of 100. From the film it looked to be at least double that.
distressed ping
A some point we are going to have to occupy Mexico, sometime in this century.
Ping!
To be realistic, there is no way any churchgoing Catholic is going to tear down a communion rail to use for a barricade.
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