Corrupt Church/State Relationship

Even Cortes in 1524 wrote to King Charles that he wanted more priests to bring religion but no bishops "squandering the goods of the Church on pomp and ceremony, and other vices, and leaving entailed estates to their sons or kinsmen". He argued that the "vices and profanities now common in Spain.....would bring our Faith into much contempt and they (the indigenous people) would hold it a mockery".

The Church in Mexico has always, even to this day, held its interests with Conservative causes. The poor parish priest Hidalgo (1810) led an army of peasants for independence from Spain, and was accordingly excommunicated by the Church. The Church supported the the militarists in the War of Reform (1857), backed the French intervention and Hapsburg monarchy in 1861 and opposed the 1910 revolution of Madero, Villa and Zapata.

The Church held obscenely large holdings in land and peasant serf/slavery. The number of "civil unions" even today in Mexico is a historical tradition of necessity from a populace that could not afford the church fees for religious ceremonies.

To this very day the Church supports the PAN (National Action Party) and vice versa, that party with roots in the Cristero War. No big surprise that this was filmed during a PAN administration.

The history of the institutional Church in Mexico is one of many great tragedies of Catholicism and it is shameful that it now puts lipstick on this pig.