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When and where was this future portent written? January 5, 2012

A test from my vacation reading………….when and in what country were the following comments made?

“The reactionaries say and the clericals say that the child belongs to the home and the youth to the family; this is a selfish doctrine, since the child and the youth belong to the community, and it is the Revolution that has the obligation of doing away with prejudices and devloping the new natinoal soul………For this reason I call upon all governors throughout the Republic, on all public authorities, and on all Revolutionary elements to proceed at once to the field of battle which we must make, because the child and the youth must belong to the Revolution.” 

The person making the comment?  Plutarcho Elias Calles, dictator of Mexico from 1926-1936, a socialist fascist with a high interest in Nazism (when he was finally arrested and deported in 1936, the soldiers happened upon him reading a copy of Mein Kampf).  But haven’t we heard similar words in our own country?  Haven’t we heard that children belong to the community, that it “takes a village,” and all that?  As is said in Ecclesiasticus, there is nothing new under the sun, our vanity and pride are constant.

Calles was, of course, the prime persecutor of the Church, whose actions precipitated the Cristero rebellion about which I have blogged recently.   In his Masonic zeal to persecute the Church (for, he was a “devout” Mason, and strongly supported by the Grand Orient of France.  The entire Mexican revolution was perpetrated by freemasons, and was supported by masons in the US government starting with Woodrow Wilson and extending into the Roosevelt Administration), he extended his efforts to every aspect of life in Mexico.  At this time, Mexico was about as Catholic a country as there was.  Catholicism was the air that Mexicans breathed.  But the socialist state can brook no competition, and most of all must possess the souls of its citizens in order to insure the success of the “revolution,” and so the Church must be destroyed.  He went about this process of destruction in every possible way – seizing Church property, making public and even private worship illegal, declaring priests to be outlaws, using communist militias to assault and devastate sacred places, etc, etc. 

One of the final avenues of assault was on education.  Socialist education became the law of the land, forcing all Catholic schools to completely apostasize, or close.  So, they closed.  But part and parcel of this “socialist education” was sex education.  Sex education is necessary to immerse the souls of youth in filth and separate them from the life of Grace.  This sexual education was of a horrific variety – in the book Mexican Martyrdom by Fr. Wilfrid Parsons, SJ, Fr. Parsons relates: “What happened is well authenticated.  Children were taken to stockyards to see the coupling of animals.  They were taken into maternity wards to witness parturition.  They were undressed in schools of both sexes and had explained to them the process of copulation.  One teacher put on a school dance in which all the boys and girls were unclothed.  Other, and unprintable, things occurred.”  I should note that these teachers who remained were all largely socialist fanatics, placed in the schools by the government when the previous teachers, predominately Catholic, left, rather than inculcate socialist dogma into the students.

Such actions would cause outrage in any country outside Scandanavia today.  In 1930s Mexico, they caused outrage on an immense level.  The atrocities that are attributed to the Cristeros – perhaps 300 socialist “teachers” killed or maimed by having their ears cut off – were all totally in response to both the socialist mantras against religion that were repeated constantly in class (No hay dios – there is no god, dios muerta – god is dead, etc), and of course to the outrage over this destruction of the innocence of youth.  In many cases, these socialist dogmatists were killed by the mother of children who ran home from school to tell of what was ongoing.  These murders were of course grave sins, but put into context the ostensible “crimes” of the Cristeros –  and keep in mind there was no recourse to laws or courts in Mexico at that time.  The police, the army, the courts, were completley dominated by Calles men. 

Believe it or not, I had never made the connection that Mexico’s constant inability to provide for its people was due to its socialist oligarchy form of government.  While Calles and his allies preached socialism for the masses, they enriched themselves on confiscated Church and private property.  That process has continued to the present day – Mexico has a very small, very rich elite, a small middle class, and a vast impoverished class, many of whom emigrate to the US. 

Calles set out to destroy the Church in Mexico.  Did he succeed?  In the 1930s, Mexico had a population that was 95-97% Catholic, and most actively practiced the Faith.  Today, that number is about 80%, and about half of those practice the faith.  Evangelical protestants are making large inroads, and the Church is still denied the right to worship in public, to evangelize publicly, to have access to media (there is no EWTN radio in Mexico, for instance).  Religous orders cannot publicly recruit – a good order of Dominicans near Monterey is slowly dying because of this limitation.  The Church is not dead, but it has been gravely wounded – perhaps as much by the changes instituted at Vatican II as by anything, for the adherence to the Faith remained strong until the modern day mass apostasy began around 1970.  But, most Mexicans are still Catholic, at least culturally.  Many US bishops count on it remaining so. 

There are sadly, many Americans who would like to have a socialist government in this country.  Of course, they would “do it right,” seeing as it has failed everywhere else.  As far as the sex education goes, I say thank God for homeschooling, and thank God we live in Texas where homeschooling is a snap.  Not so in other states. 

Thus concludes my “What I did on Christmas vacation” post.