AtonementOnline: "For Greater Glory" - The Cristiada
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I attended a screening of "For Greater Glory," which tells of the Cristiada, the war waged against the oppressive Mexican government in the 1920's by the Cristeros. What a magnificent film...absolutely inspiring! Not only should every Catholic see it for its beautiful testament to our Faith, but every American should see it as
a reminder of how precious is our right to religious freedom.
The most haunting line to me: when Plutarco Calles arrogantly says, "The people elected ME!" I've heard that someplace before...
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Addendum: Father Francisco Vera, pray for us. 9/10/11 From Tantumergo's Dallas Catholic blog:
...it’s a recounting of the history of the
Christeros, the faithful Mexican Catholics who refused to submit when their socialist government tried to take over, and make impotent, the Church. Really good history, but I also found it very upsetting...This is how the faithful Catholics of the Christeros were treated by their enlightened socialist betters if caught:
It is sometimes interesting to reflect on the course of events in nations after persecutions of the Church are allowed or encouraged by the leaders or populace of those nations.
¡Viva Cristo Rey!
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La Guerre N’est Pas Finie
Yo amo a las plantas por la raíz y no por la flor.
This war 'preceded' the civil war in Spain. I see it more as a
'training' exercise used by the Russian anarchists. The enemy of souls
uses this same tactics set up in Eden and that of Cain and Abel. It continues.
Antonio Machado knew of it.
"After Machado's experience with the
introspective poetry of his first period, he withdrew from the spectacle of his
conflictive personality and undertook to witness the general battle of the
"two Spains", each one struggling to gain the ascendancy. In
1912 he published "Campos de Castilla", a collection of poems
lyricising the beauty of the Castilian countryside. Just as the poet's own
personality revealed mutually destructive elements in the earlier Galerías
and Soledades, so too did the Cain-Abel Bible story, interpreted in
"La Tierra de Alvargonzález", later attest to the factions in Spain that shredded one another and the national fabric
in an effort to restore unity."
Today in Spain
"The left’s critique of the Church has been coupled with an attack on its
supporters on political right. Writing in the leftist Madrid
daily El País on 18 July 2011,
Antonio
Elorza stated that a definitive account of the Spanish Civil War
cannot yet
be written because the right refuses to atone for the past. [The left
also has much to atone for---like the priests' blood on the
streets...contemplative nuns whose crime was 'prayer'...which in NO WAY
deters from the need of the right to atone.] While Germany
went through de-Nazification:
In Spain, this is not happening … broad swathes of our political right …
have been able once again to bring out the arguments for the legitimacy of
Franco’s military uprising … Of the different fascisms in Europe, of what
happened in Germany or Austria, of what that political right proposed and
promoted [in Spain] – not a word [of apology.]
the Spanish Civil War is still not over … It continues to be fought out in
books, articles, lectures and debates with the same ardor, partiality and
ferocity as ever. Because those who lost it are demanding at least the moral
victory, and the winners will not give it to them. In every war, the first casualty is truth. In a civil war, the truth is
assassinated twice, once by each camp."
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*It is this war that is now within our cities, churches and families...our very souls.*
...as the beast slouches towards Bethlehem...
