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Entry: Could the Latin Mass Save Western Civilization? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/could_the_latin_mass_save_western_civilization#2872 Post contents: Before I go, I want to make sure that readers understand that prior to the Second Vatican Council, Catholic Civilization produced a faith so powerful and so courageous until death itself without apologies, and yet full of charity (love) for Christ and the executioners. How many Catholics post Vatican II had gone to their death being given a choice between denying Christ and live, or refusing to deny Him and accept death? Here is an excerpt that all of you should read and really think about: By Robert Royal Special to the HERALD Following is the second in a series of articles by Robert Royal, author of the soon-to-be released book Catholic Martyrs of the 20th Century. On Nov. 22, 1927, a man dressed in street clothes was led through a crowd of photographers and politicians on his way to a firing squad in Mexico City. The photographers were present for this illegal execution — there had been no trial or even formal charges — because the Mexican president, Plutarco Elias Calles, the most rabidly anti-Catholic leader in the world at the time, wanted them to record the humiliation of a man desperately pleading for his own life. Calles badly miscalculated. The man walked calmly to the place of his death, asked to be allowed to pray, and then, in a voice neither defiant nor desperate, intoned the words Viva Cristo Rey! — "Long Live Christ the King!" Through photographs distributed worldwide, the Jesuit priest Miguel Augustin Pro thus became the most famous martyr in Mexico’s anti-Catholic revolution early in the twentieth century. But Pro was hardly alone. Thousands of Catholics died in the same anti-Catholic wave, though few people anywhere, especially in the United States, remember their martyrdom today. President Calles was not only wrong about how Pro would die, he was wrong about Mexico as a whole. Though anti-clerical propaganda long tried to portray the Mexican clergy as corrupt, few of them, few enough to count on one hand, renounced the Faith or caved in to government pressures, even facing death. They all showed a heroic faith so deep that many, like Christ, calmly forgave their executioners before they died... Sent at: 2008 12 02