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Threats against the Pope, bishops and priests…

Mexico’s Cardinal Norberto Rivera’s car was attacked by leftist protesters on Sunday as he left Mexico City’s central cathedral.  He has been receiving death threats for over a year because of his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.  The Mexican Church is now asking the Government’s protection  for bishops and priests in Mexico City.

“They have threatened me with death. These are not just aggressions, I’ve received constant death threats,” Rivera said in an interview with Mexican television aired late Monday.

Rivera says he has been the victim of a hate campaign since the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, narrowly lost last year’s presidential election to the conservative National Action Party, which is seen as close to the Catholic Church. - SignOn San Diego.com 

As the Holy Father prepares to visit Naples, graffiti death threats against his person have been spray painted on walls in the city of Naples.  The usual suspects are to blame - those in favor of abortion and gay marriage.

This type of attack upon the Church and clergy is one of the reasons the clerics in the UK have been warned not to wear their collars  in public.

History repeating?

Fr. Blake of Mary Magdalen UK  has a post on the upcoming beatifications of 500 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, in which thousands of Catholic bishops, priests, religious, and laity were killed for the faith.  Similar martyrdoms took place in Mexico in the 1920’s because of hatred for the faith, while the modern world paid little attention.

It should be well known that in Spain today, the Government is once again hostile to the Church.  Why?  Because of Church opposition to murdering the unborn and the immorality of homosexuality, which has become even more politicized by the push for same-sex unions.

I’m convinced Our Lady’s warnings at Fatima in 1917 are as relevant today as they were then.  (John Paul II said as much.)

“The good will be martyred; the Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be annihilated.” - Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima

Pray the Rosary everyday.