The new book The victory of the future It collects the reflections of Blessed Anacleto González Flores – charter of religious persecution deployed by the Mexican government in the first half of the twentieth century – on the “three blasphemies” that have as “enemy” the Catholic Church: Masonry, Revolution and Protestantism.
Fr. Rafael Becerra, who together with Francisco Manuel Sánchez compiled the texts of the Mexican Blessed for this volume, explains to Aci Prensa that “the Church, of course, has no enemies. These three blasphemies that Anacleto González Flores speaks of, will have the Church as an enemy.”
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“We, Catholics, know that the Church has always been persecuted. Christ was persecuted, Christ was crucified, but our hope is always in Christ. Christ is the future. In Christ, with Christ, and for Christ we can authentically enjoy the future,” he said.
Protestantism, used by the Mexican government against the Church
Fr. Becerra, author of works on Mexican Blessed as Anacleto González Flores: From Word to Social Transformation, He points out that in the Mexican case Protestantism “has a difference with the other countries, because in Mexico the Protestantism has come in a natural way, let’s say it, but (that) the government has brought protesting in Mexico as a strategy to subtract power and influence to the Catholic Church.”
“That is why Anacleto González Flores sees him as a kind of enemy of the Church,” says the Mexican priest. “It is not that the Church has enemies, but for them, both for the revolution, for Freemasonry and for Protestantism, the Church is its enemy,” he reiterates.
“Here is the enemy”
And the Blessed Anacleto, currently Patron of the Mexican laity, takes as a reference the enmity of the Freemasonry of the words of one of his European referents, the Frenchman León Gambetta, who at the end of the 19th century expressed “Clericism is the enemy”(Clericalism, that is the enemy).
Father Becerra states that Gambetta thus pointed to the “clergy, the priests, the bishops, ‘that is the enemy’. Then Anacleto González Flores for making a kind of mockery (…) writes his article called ‘That is the enemy’, and there is detailing week a week a whole program”.
The Mexican Blessed considers, said the priest, “that Freemasonry, the revolution, the Protestants want to deceive the youth, the Catholic youth, and Anacleto González Flores wants to protect that Catholic youth from which they reach the claws of this deception.”
That is why it presents “how it works, what are its ends, what their strategies are and how they are contrary to the Catholic faith.”
On Freemasonry, says Fr. Becerra, Blessed Anacleto warns that “it is the enemy of the Church, it is a sect, lady of error, the greatest enemy of everything noble, of the nation and government, is a demonistra, enemy of God, is against Rome, destructive of nationalities and families, enemy of morality, its strategy is corromper”.
“The revolution is a vertigo”
Father Becerra after the Mexican Blessed understands the revolution not as “a social movement but a whole disruption of values, it is a social philosophical process that disrupts values and that is sought to be done to access power.”
Anacleto González Flores sees as “the mother of all revolutions (a) the French Revolution, where Freemasonry is what drives the revolution to disrupt values,” he says.
Remember then that Blessed Anacleto points out: “The revolution is a vertigo, it is the deranging, the catastrophe, it is essentially devastating, it is the denial of the authority, it is anarchy, it is the main actor of the dramas of our independent life” (…) Enemy of the Catholic press, an infamous, a fake, the most despotic tyranny. “
The Mexican priest indicates that “Anacleto sees the revolution technically as a system of thought that tries to impose society as an entity, as an entity that has different agents and that has several characteristics that it has produced, for example, he says, a sinking of humanity that has led it to the wreck and misery.”
“That would allow us to understand that now the revolution has not ended as a political, philosophical system, as an entity that has revolutionary agents,” he said.
For Fr. Becerra, “we should ask ourselves now: what are the systems that seek to corrupt society, family, women, young people and what is the goal? (…) Because if the family, if the woman, if young people are corrupted, then they can be more manipulable, then they can be more controllable.”
“The solution is the future”
Fr. Becerra emphasizes that in the thought of Blessed Anacleto, “the solution is the future. The solution is evolution and not the revolution. Evolution makes it progress, the revolution causes it to be disrupted.”
Part of the solution, he continues, “is to organize the people, be united in the people. That is, having God as a foundation, now we must organize.”
That, he regrets, “it is a big problem of Catholics in Mexico. Although we have a lot of faith, although we believe a lot and we are very Guadalupanos, it is difficult for Catholics to organize. So, for those who are against Catholics because it is very easy to move forward, because as there is no unity, then they can move forward for them.”
“Anacleto says: The solution is to organize. So, you have to join as many Catholics.
“First God, then unity, then quantity and then the system is love and justice. And then, tactics is the future (which) is the one where Christ is,” he said.
Fr. Becerra stressed that “who recognizes the total power of Christ, then can move towards the future. In the future there is hope. In the future is peace.”
Unity with the Pope and the Bishops
The Mexican priest also recalled the testimony of the Blessed Unit Anacleto González with the Church authorities, something that “makes us clear (a) that with our Pope everything, and without our Pope nothing. With our bishop everything and without our bishop anything.”
“Someone could disagree in some phrase, in some saying, well, that may be possible, but in communion always,” he said, remembering the testimony of the cristeros, who rose in arms against the religious persecution of the Mexican government in the 1920s.
“The Cristeros, first gave their lives for love to their church, and then, when they had the possibility of triumph, the bishops of Mexico made an agreement, and perhaps they could dissent, but obeyed their bishops and left their weapons,” he recalled.
“This is admirable to us and also invites us to be in unity,” he reiterated.
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David Ramos
Graduate in Communication Sciences by the Private University of the North in Trujillo, Peru. With more than 12 years of experience in Catholic journalism working in ACI Press, I am based in Mexico since 2018. I have covered the trips of Pope Francis to Ecuador, Paraguay, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Panama.