Pub Date : 2019-08-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108632492.003
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Pub Date : 2019-08-31DOI: 10.1017/9781108632492.006
A. M. Ramos, St
The anniversary of the publication of John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor (1993) and Fides et Ratio (1998) gives us the opportunity to reflect on a topic that may initially seem tangential but is of great contemporary relevance— namely, martyrdom.1 Pope Francis himself has noted that there are more Christian martyrs today than in the times of the early Church;2 such a fact may be reason for great hope in the future of the Church,3 for as Tertullian assured the pagan world, the tortures inflicted on Christians would accomplish nothing other than to entice people to the Christian religion, since the sight of those who were courageous enough to die for their faith would lead pagans to question the values and tenets by which they lived. As Tertullian says to the pagan persecutors, “We become more numerous every time we are hewn down by you; the blood of Christians is [the] seed [of the church].”4
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Pub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1017/9781108632492.002
R. Weis
Catholic partisans and revolutionary anticlericalists alike traced their struggle to La Reforma, a series of laws enacted by the governing liberals in the mid-1800s that restricted the scope of the Catholic Church. Conservatives responded with a war that they lost. Half a century later, La Reforma remained Mexico’s “original sin” that attacked the nation’s bond with God. 1 The failure to rescind the laws weighed on Catholic partisans after the revolution. Decades of complacency toward the La Reforma, they argued, had opened the way for the revolution’s more forceful attack on religion. For revolutionaries, in contrast, enforcement of the Reforma laws had not gone far enough. The expansion of religious activities and the clergy’s interference in politics proved that the state needed to restrict the church further to its proper, spiritual domain. Of course, decades had passed; new ideals and grievances animated both sides. Still, many revolutionaries considered themselves successors to the liberals just as many Catholics identified with the vanquished conservatives. For both, the clash in the 1920s was the result of unresolved historical battles.
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