A Clarion Call To The Mexican Bishops And Clergy

Brothers and sisters in Christ, let's cut straight to the chase—this is the real battle we're in. The question burning in every faithful Mexican heart right now: What is the ONLY solution for Mexico?

Listen close, because the Catechism doesn't mince words. Paragraph 1896 hits like a spiritual hammer: "Where sin perverts the social climate, it is necessary to appeal to the conversion of hearts and to the grace of God. Charity pushes for just reforms. There is no solution to the social question apart from the Gospel" (cf. Centesimus Annus 3).

That's it. No political program, no military crackdown, no economic fix alone will do. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the ONLY answer. And right now, Mexico's biggest poison isn't poverty—it's corruption eating the nation from the inside out. When corruption becomes endemic, like a cancer in the soul of society, there's no human hope left. Zero. Nada. Only divine intervention can root it out.

Now, let's go deeper into the spiritual warfare dimension, because this isn't just politics—it's demonic. Back in 2011, Father Juan Rivas, a Legionary of Christ priest, laid it out plain in a powerful letter on abortion and the narcos. He saw it coming, and he warned us loud and clear.

He asked: Where did the violence in Mexico come from? And he answered without hesitation: It won't end—it will only increase. Why? Because the day Mexico voted for abortion—for legal violence against the weakest, the unborn—it opened the floodgates to demons. Were seeing the ‘return of the Aztec gods.’ That vote was a direct assault on the innocent, a culture of death that breeds more death. The violence has many heads, many tentacles, but its root is in a society that wants nothing to do with God, or claims it has "no time" for Him anymore.

How did the Mexican cartels even come to be? They don't spawn out of thin air like spores. They grow in the scum of a pagan, materialistic, atheistic society—broken families, battered mothers, fatherless kids running wild, greed, ambition, the nightclub scene, casinos and all that. The attitude but low information Mexicans is, "I can do whatever I want with my money," this is the excuse from so many Mexican Catholics who should know better. That's the primordial soup where violence is born.

Father Rivas pointed to a miracle moment: the year the entire people of Guadalajara processed with the Blessed Sacrament from Zapopan to the Cathedral. Violence dropped almost to zero, that’s the power of public prayer in action. Why is their so much violence in Mexico? Because a society that excludes God walks straight toward self-destruction—just like Pope Benedict XVI once said.

What's Mexico's main problem? It's not social—it's spiritual. Until we get serious about conversion, nothing changes. Father Rivas said it back in 2007 and repeated it in 2011: If we don't consecrate Mexico family by family, town by town, city by city to the Lord, the violence will keep escalating.

Fr Rivas called for something bold, like what St. Francis did in Arezzo, Italy—where everyone was killing each other until St Francis called a deacon to perform a public exorcism while St Francis prayed in the public square. That's the level we're at right now.

And to the bishops? I’m not gonna hold back: If the Mexican bishops don't get out there fearlessly, city after city, processing with the Blessed Sacrament—or even taking the original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe out of the Basilica out in a public procession as Mexico did in 1629, in the days of the Great Flood of in Mexico City, a disaster that lasted five long years and brought with it not just water but death-dealing diseases. The city was submerged—streets turned into lakes, homes destroyed, and the standing water bred epidemics like typhus, malaria, and other fevers that ravaged the population. It was a plague in every sense, a scourge from the enemy that killed thousands. But the Mexican clergy and laity had real faith back then, not fear.

In the midst of this flood and chaos, the faithful knew where to turn: to La Morenita, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The original tilma—the miraculous image imprinted by heaven itself on Juan Diego's cloak—was carefully removed from her shrine at Tepeyac and brought in procession to the Mexico City Cathedral for safekeeping. The shrine was effectively closed, flooded and unusable, while the image stayed in the cathedral for those five years until the waters finally receded in 1634. When the flood ended, the image was returned in a triumphant procession, and the people saw it as her intercession that saved them. No fear—just faith, storming heaven with prayers and devotion. This is how the violence will stop.

This wasn't some symbolic gesture; it was spiritual warfare in action. The demons behind the flood and the plagues couldn't stand against the Mother of God. And Father Rivas is calling the bishops to that same boldness today—get the Blessed Sacrament and the image out there, process through the streets, close the Basilica if you have to, but confront the evil head-on with real faith, not the timid spirit that's let violence and corruption run wild.

As laity, what do we do against this culture of death? We've given power to the devil, and only the Stronger One—Jesus Christ—can cast him back into the abyss. That door opened wide the day Mexico voted for abortion, right in the city where the Virgin appears pregnant with her Divine Son. Mexico voted against her Son. Our Lady is grieving deeply.

So start here, brothers and sisters: Consecrate your homes to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Push your parishes to have perpetual adoration—one 24-hour day a week, with each family taking an hour. If families and neighborhoods do this, they'll be shielded from the violence. That's spiritual armor in action!

This is the fight, familia. Not guns alone, not laws alone—conversion, repentance, the Eucharist, the Rosary, consecration, exorcism-level prayer. The demons behind the cartels, the corruption, the bloodshed—they tremble at the name of Our Lord & Savior Jesus, they fall silent at the name of Our Lady.

Mexico was born Catholic. It's time to reclaim it. Viva Cristo Rey! Get on your knees, storm heaven, and watch God move.

The only solution? Jesus Christ and His Gospel—lived out radically in conversion and grace. Anything less is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Stay vigilant. Stay strong, pray hard, and never back down! Pray without ceasing. The battle is the Lord's!