Tag: Mexico

Mexico’s Catholic leaders are renewing their call for peace as violence and criminal control continue to plague large parts of the country.

As the church prepares for the birth of Christ throughout Advent, it celebrates one of the most influential events in its history.

Mexican Catholics have expressed alarm at a proposal to oversee the online expressions of priests and bishops through a reform of the country's Religious Associations and Public Worship Law.

Another priest has been found murdered in a violent southern Mexican state, where Catholic bishops' have brokered truces between warring drug cartels and clergy have been killed with impunity.

Archbishop Jorge Cavazos Arizpe of San Luis Potosi in Mexico has called for the cancellation of a concert of controversial rockstar Marilyn Manson, claiming it would encourage “situations of evil”. The archbishop claimed he sent a letter to Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona asking to axe the concert “for society’s sake and the sake of all Christians.”

The Mexican bishops' conference expressed outrage over the discovery of an extermination camp operated by a drug cartel, calling it "one of the cruelest expressions of evil and human misery that we've seen in the country," and alleging such sites exist in other parts of Mexico.

At a time marked by division, several US bishops wrote 11 December that the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, is "a powerful reminder that we are all called to be one in Christ Jesus, beginning from the moment of our conception."

12 December is an important day for Mexicans. It celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico and the Americas.

During the Angelus, Pope Francis acknowledged a Mexican Jesuit in Chiapas who had been murdered on 20 October.

“Dear Father, I know you have written about recent Eucharistic miracles in Argentina and Poland, and now I hear there has been another one...