Thread: Leftist Mexican protesters storm church during Massâ€

The Cathedral of Guadalupe got a taste of the invasion taking place daily on our southern border. Don't be surprised when illegal aliens start storming our goverment offices.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGHv5LpU5s8

MEXICO CITY: Mexico City's cathedral was closed after leftist protesters stormed into the world-renowned religious landmark and church officials said it would not reopen until city authorities can guarantee security.

Dozens of supporters of former leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador entered the building bordering the capital's Zocalo square on Sunday, scuffling with faithful and overturning pews.

The conflict reignited tensions between the church and some members of Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party who accuse Roman Catholic Cardinal Norberto Rivera of overstepping Mexican law by intervening in politics, including supporting President Felipe Calderon's election campaign last year.

Archdiocese of Mexico spokesman Hugo Valdemar Romero said Monday that there have been 24 similar but smaller incidents since the 2006 election, which Lopez Obrador's followers allege was stolen. Election officials deny the allegation.

"The cathedral will remain closed as a security measure, and a sign of protest against the fact that these people entered, attacked parishioners and profaned a sacred space," Romero said.

Democratic Revolution officials, which dominates Mexico City politics and is the largest opposition party in Congress, insisted they did not instigate the protest.

City officials recently increased security at the cathedral at Rivera's request, and Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said Monday the city would immediately boost police presence further.
"What we're going to do starting today is dispatch a special group of police to prevent the interruption" of religious services, Ebrard told reporters Monday.

After meeting with city officials, Romero told Mexican television network Televisa that the cathedral would likely reopen before next Sunday, assuming the two groups can agree on a beefed up security measure in the works.

Sen. Rosario Ibarra said Lopez Obrador's followers were angered on Sunday by an extended tolling of the cathedral's bells that drowned out her speech to a rally in the Zocalo.
"Could it be that they don't want the people to hear what I have to say?" Ibarra recalled telling the crowd. "We should check."

Church officials described the bells as a normal call to Mass, but Ibarra said it lasted about 15 minutes. Televisa, which recorded the incident, said the bells tolled for about 10 minutes.
The disruption delayed Sunday Mass, frightened some parishioners out of the building, forced priests to take refuge in the sacristy and left one elderly parishioner slightly injured, according to Father Ruben Avila, who is in charge of the cathedral.

"The whole cathedral shook with their shouting, and they pushed the parishioners within a few meters (yards) from the door of the sacristy," Avila said in an account posted on the archdiocese's Web site.

Romero said it was the first time the cathedral had closed since 1926, when tensions over Mexico's harsh anti-clerical laws broke out into armed conflict between the government and Catholic rebels with the bloody 1926-29 Cristero War. All churches in the country were closed during the conflict.
Those laws were eased by reforms in 1992 that allowed churches to own property and priests to wear clerical garb in public.

Ebrard said the church had no right to close the cathedral because the historic building was expropriated by the government, along with other church property, in the 1800s.
"This is an act of intolerance because nobody can close a national monument," Ebrard said.
Churches in Mexico can now own properties they acquired after the 1992 reforms, but are only allowed to occupy church buildings that existed before that.

Romero defended the church's right to close the cathedral. "The cathedral is state property, but as a religious association we have the right to determine what religious rites are held there," he said. "And because the site was profaned, we can declare the suspension of the rites."

who accuse Roman Catholic Cardinal Norberto Rivera of overstepping Mexican law by intervening in politics, including supporting President Felipe Calderon's election campaign last year.

Imagine that, the church interfering in politics.

Ebrard said the church had no right to close the cathedral because the historic building was expropriated by the government, along with other church property, in the 1800s.
"This is an act of intolerance because nobody can close a national monument," Ebrard said.
Churches in Mexico can now own properties they acquired after the 1992 reforms, but are only allowed to occupy church buildings that existed before that.

That explaines why Cardinal Mahoney is so adamant about the illegals, it is the only way the church can truly profit from the Mexican catholics.

LOL yea, they should see what some of the Catholic churches are doing here, oh but they would approve of that so no storming Im sure.

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hahaha so those are the ones Mexico wants to ship to America Poor workers . This is the way to behave in America not in Mexico .Oh poor people they were confused they were mistaken this is not not America. This is Mexico.