Articles about "priests"

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Echoes of the cristiada? Necropolitics and “priestly martyrdom” in Mexico's 21st century.

  • Yves Bernardo Roger Solis Nicot

This article analyzes the murders of priests in Mexico (1993-2024) documented by the Centro Católico Multimedial (ccm) and puts them in historical perspective with those that occurred during the Cristero War (1914-1938), according to data from Juan González Morfín. It seeks to contextualize the current violence compared to the historical one, with the purpose of showing differences in magnitude, distribution and motivations. While the Cristero War involved religious persecution and Church-State conflict, contemporary violence is due to the dynamics of organized crime and failed security policies. Today, priests act as social stabilizers in conflict zones. The analysis is based on three concepts: disenchantment of the world (Max Weber), necropolitics (Achille Mbembe) and criminal governance (Benjamin Lessing).