The Power and the Glory. Catholic Church in Mexico Instructs Catholics on Voting

The Catholic Church in Mexico City has recently issued a letter to the faithful with guidelines for the approaching July presidential elections. The guidelines instruct Catholics not to vote for political actors that support abortion and homosexual marriage.

The Catholic Church in Mexico was hushed during the 20th century because of several waves of anti-clericalism, inspiring the famous novel by Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory. Mexico’s laws still limit any involvement of religious groups in politics, and the guidelines that were just issued by Cardinal Norberto Rivera, Primate of Mexico, are controversial because they are perceived by secularists as flirting with actual involvement in politics.

For more see the Fox News article and The News article. Also, you may wish to read the mexican daily El Universal.

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