Mexico City's cathedral threatens to stop services
Don Gabacho
Mexico City's cathedral threatens to stop services
AP, MEXICO CITY
Friday, Nov 10, 2006, Page 7
The leftist mayor of Mexico City pledged on Wednesday to step up
security at the city's Roman Catholic cathedral after the church
threatened to cancel services there following noisy protests by leftist
demonstrators.
The possible cancelation of Masses, which could be extended to other
locations, is part of a months-long dispute involving supporters of a
protest movement in the southern state of Oaxaca and followers of
former leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Mayor Alejandro Encinas, a member of Lopez Obrador's party, said
clerics had angered protesters by making political statements --
something they are forbidden by law from doing.
"These incursions into the cathedral are unacceptable," Encinas told a
news conference.
He added, however, that "there is mutual responsibility, both on the
part of the clerics and the people who might disagree with the
political statements they make."
He said the city had contacted church authorities about plans to
provide better security at the towering cathedral located in the city's
main square.
During the summer, police were posted outside the church after Lopez
Obrador's supporters repeatedly interrupted Masses -- sometimes
engaging in shoving and shouting matches with parishioners or church
security guards.
On Sunday, a group of several dozen demonstrators with their hands
covered in red paint to simulate blood interrupted a service at the
cathedral celebrated by Cardinal Norberto Rivera.
The protesters chanted "assassin" and claimed Rivera had supported
federal police intervention in the Oaxaca conflict.
At an impromptu news conference following a recent Sunday Mass, Rivera
made relatively vague statements about the need for law and order in
Oaxaca, where leftist protesters seized the city for five months until
federal police were sent in to restore order last month.
"The intolerance of these radical and violent groups who have attacked
Cardinal Rivera did not achieve their goal of silencing him," the
archdiocese of Mexico said in a news release.
"In the case of any new violent incursion, and if the authorities
cannot guarantee the safety of parishioners, the Archdiocese of Mexico
reserves the right to cancel Masses at the cathedral, and could extend
that measure," he said.
Fredric L. Rice
>(Next: Excommuncation by PANista Cardinal Rivera?)
>Mexico City's cathedral threatens to stop services
How is that a "threat?"
>The leftist mayor of Mexico City pledged on Wednesday to step up
>security at the city's Roman Catholic cathedral after the church
>threatened to cancel services there following noisy protests by leftist
>demonstrators.
Mexico is _suffering_ from religion. Putting an end to occult
superstitious ifgnorance would be a great first step for Mexico
to climb out of the toilet.
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Akneigh Wombuster
with their insidious, criminal "religions." Such an (impossible)
action would take more than 2 billion benighted "followers" out of
play, and the internecine divisiveness and hatred these cults have
inspired over the ages might have a chance to fade.
So much for science fiction.
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Don Gabacho
Fredric L. Rice wrote:
> "Don Gabacho" <jpas...@nettaxi.com> wrote:
> >(Next: Excommuncation by PANista Cardinal Rivera?)
> >Mexico City's cathedral threatens to stop services
>
> How is that a "threat?"
After centuries of the most oppressive unity between central government
and Catholic Church it took a Bentio Juarez (an ex-cleric himself) to
finally constiutionally create their separation. That seperation
includes, by Mexican Constitution, such prohibistions on any church to
involve itself---even stating positions, in the nation's politics. It
would not be unlike a constitutional prohibtion in the U.S.A. denying
evangelists politicizing from the pulpit or anywhere at all whether
they be Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, black, white whatever.
Fox's party, and ally of Bush, PAN, was much later founded by Catholic
Bankers for the reunification of (Catholic) Church and State in Mexico.
They fashioned the party after Franco's militant Falangists (Fascists)
of Spain, as PAN remains to this day.
When formed it was at the termination, in the 1930's, of Mexico's
"Cristero War" when tens of thousands perished in a---failed---attempt
by arch-conservatives aligned with the Church to reunify Church and
State in Mexico. The party formed to thus persist with the struggle
underground. The very first day of Fox's occupation of Los Pinos (the
Mx White House), he even had the very bust of Benito Juarez himself
removed.
They are deliberately fed, in part, by both Bush's
"Hispanic-stipulated" educational and even faith-based grants in the
U.S.(for pro-active studies at univerisites, ESL courses in schools and
churches, etc.) where American taxpayers monies end up under the
management of Program Directors oftentimes direct from Mexico or at
least, one-way-or the other approved by Fox's consulates stateside.
Do you think Bush's even "Faith-based funding" was to simply subsidize
Sunday School classes in the States?
The "threat" by Mexico's Cardinal Rivera is historic throughout Latin
America: when the peons do not behave themselves to, in a very real
sense blacmail the peons into submission, by the
suspensioin of Church sacrements: baptism, marriage, last rites, mass,
etc.
For the very archdioses of Mexico to threaten the discontinuance of
mass in the very headquarters of the Church in Mexico is not even a
threat to its own, local congregation but the whole archdioses and, in
the case of Cardinal, quite possibly beyond.
The last time this threat was used even outside of Mexico, it helped
comel exactly what it was deisigned to prevent: a revolution in
Nicaragua.
For Bush to have done what he has with his "Hispanic-stipulated"
education and faith-based grants of American's taxpayers monies was,
and remains, to finance these falangist's cause in Mexico and establish
the same tyranny in the churches, of any denomination accepting
faith-based grants, now being especially flooded with illegals aligned
with these miltant "Cristeros."
> >The leftist mayor of Mexico City pledged on Wednesday to step up
> >security at the city's Roman Catholic cathedral after the church
> >threatened to cancel services there following noisy protests by leftist
> >demonstrators.
>
> Mexico is _suffering_ from religion. Putting an end to occult
> superstitious ifgnorance would be a great first step for Mexico
> to climb out of the toilet.
Rice, I know your posts. You color everything with your narrow-minded
belligerence toward everything and everybody which does conform with
your narrow and warped view of the world.
You even got it backwards who was making the threat. It is the Church
making the threat not the protestors who are---NOT---attempting to
overthrow their own Church and religion rather than its heirarchy which
refuses the separation of Church and State.
WWIII-ology
they could ALL be ashes within a week and the world would be a much better
and safer place ; )
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:22:01 -0800, Akneigh Wombuster wrote
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