Second Spanish Republic: What the Communists Did to the Catholics Was Genocide
The massacres of Catholic priests from 1936 to 1939 were a strategic plan to dismantle the Catholic Church, which they saw as an enemy to be destroyed, writes the priest Jorge López Teulón (ReligionELibertad, 18 December).
The decapitation of the enemy elite, for example, was one of the reasons for the Katyn massacre perpetrated by the Soviets in 1940.
The existence of a strategy to physically eliminate a social group is in line with the definition of the crime of genocide in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Article 6 of which defines as such 'the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such', citing in particular the killing of members of the group.
Of the 292 murdered priests of the Archdiocese of Toledo (48% of the total diocesan clergy), only about twenty were prominent in the social and political field.
The majority of the murdered priests were parish priests of the rural population. …More
"Sanguis martyrum, semen christianorum."
Since Stephen, the first deacon of the nascent Church was murdered, Christianity spread rapidly throughout the world.
Since then there are many examples here: The Mexican Cristeros, the martyred nuns of Compiegne, the genocide of La Vendee.
The ruthless destroyers of the Catholic Church barely realize that the more Christians they murder, the more Christians will rise. The freemasons and bergoglio no longer kill bodies, they kill souls.
Santayana haunts the 'progressive' age: "Those who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it." Blessed Claretian martyrs, pray for us.