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Mexican archdiocese says phony priests proliferate during pandemic

October 19, 2020

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CWN Editor's Note: A “priest who offers to celebrate a Mass at your house is not valid, he is not a priest, rest assured, he is not a Catholic priest,” said Archbishop Francisco Javier Chavolla Ramos of Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico (map).

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  • Posted by: Randal Mandock - Oct. 19, 2020 10:10 AM ET USA

    Ongoing evidence that the 1910 Mexican Revolution continues to wreak havoc on the Catholic Church. The Revolution first destroyed the Mexican Particular Church by murdering and exiling Catholic priests, by its draconian anti-Catholic constitution, by its implementation of authoritarian/Communist governance, by its refusal to recognize Catholic matrimony, by its elevation of the political over the private, by its anti-God educational system, by its effective alienation of Catholics from theChurch