Remember the Manhattan Declaration! Viva Cristo Rey! Roman Rota Addresses

• The Manhattan Declaration
  
  

• Viva Cristo Rey!
  "The 1917 Mexican Constitution included harsh anticlerical provisions that went unenforced until the regime of Plutarco Elías Calles....In 1926, Calles introduced legislation -- the 'Calles Law' -- specifying penalties for violating the constitutional prohibitions: Clergy could be imprisoned for criticizing the government, fined for wearing clerical garb in public, and so forth. Calles also moved to seize Church property, close Catholic schools, seminaries and monasteries, and deport foreign priests....The magnitude of the conflict around religious freedom today is something no one could have predicted when production began on For Greater Glory. Some might call the film's timing providential" (Steven Greydanus, ¡Viva Cristo Rey! National Catholic Register, 5/29/2012).  "Anyone who saw the 2012 film For Greater Glory will recall the brutal, bloody martyrdom scene of a teenager in 1920s Mexico....that teenager, José Luis Sánchez del Río, is on his way to being canonized.  On Thursday, Pope Francis approved several decrees presented to him from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, including a miracle attributed to Blessed José, a young member of the Cristero movement that fought for religious freedom when Mexico’s government was severely restricting the activities of the Catholic Church" (John Burger, Viva Cristo Rey! Mexican Boy Martyr Depicted in “For Greater Glory” to be Canonized, 1/22/16)

• Roma Rota Addresses
  

• Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle (January 25)

• Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr (February 3)