Talk:Mexican Catholic Apostolic Church

Collusion with communists in 1960s
There were allegations of collusion with communists to cause confusion and discredit the Catholic Church. The allegations involved a letter from "Pope Eduardo I" (religious name of Jose Eduardo Davila), operations in Cuba to confuse Catholics, and the author of the United Press International syndicated article quoted the Mexican newspaper Atisbos that the "church, in association with 'agents of Soviet and Cuban embassies,' are trying to provoke a religious problem in Mexico by 'discrediting Catholicism and splitting the people'." Unfortunately I can't find any followup articles in English newspapers.

–BoBoMisiu (talk) 23:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Collaboration with fascists in the 1930s
Jaime Plenn described ICAM activities in the 1930s. Plenn's three paragraph description lacks details:
 * José Eduardo Dávila Garza became the leader of ICAM and used the religious name Pope Eduardo I.
 * In 1938 newspapers alleged that Dávila and his followers fenced religious images and religious ornaments stolen from the Roman Catholic Churches.
 * Dávila relations with the Masonic lodges and Protestant churches and had organized a lodge of his own, the "Knights of Guadalupe," on the order of the Knights of Columbus.
 * Pérez permitted priests of the schismatic church to marry but Dávila rescinded it and the priests are now required to be celibates. The same ritual as that of the Roman Catholic Church were followed, and Dávila has his cathedral in the village of San Pedro.
 * Dávila and some of his clergy were mixed up with paramilitary Mexican fascist Gold Shirts.
 * Dávila "carried a letter from the Gold Shirt commander 'authorizing' him to make converts in 'the eastern division of Puebla'."
 * The "bishop of Texas" for the schismatic group in 1938 was a German Nazi.
 * As schismatics they took advantage of anticlericism to win for their sect.
 * As Gold Shirts, they sought help from Catholics, both American and Mexican, to fight the Mexican reds.
 * Antisemitic in Mexico, the Gold Shirt exiles sought finances among Jews in Texas and California "to fight religious persecution in Mexico."

Plenn's book was published in 1939, i.e. circa the begining of World War II, when Nazi views on Catholicism would have been known. The concept of a subservient national church would be consistent with those views. There was a Mexican Fascist Party at the time. I also see President Calles, an initial supporter of ICAM, geturing the fascist salute in this photo. It is unclear to me if Plenn is conflating fascists with ICAM, or if one was a facet of the other. I did not add these details without additional supporting references.

–BoBoMisiu (talk) 15:22, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

The name Armin Monte de Honor appeared in a research article in Mexico about Mexican diplomacy 1938-1940. That Monte de Honor communicated with the Slovak Republic (1939–45), a clerical fascist client state of Nazi Germany, about establishing of relations between Mexico and the new Slovak Republic soon after it separated from the Second Czechoslovak Republic. He received a reply from the Slovak Republic on September 1, 1939, in German. Mount of Honor released this statement a year later, offering to act as an intermediary, but the Mexican government did not reply to him. The author of the article did not have further information about that Monte de Honor. Without details, it is unclear to me if this is the same person or just the same name.

–BoBoMisiu (talk) 17:26, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Independent bishops: an international directory unreliable for Dávila Garza
Independent bishops contains factual errors about José Eduardo Dávila Garza. The name used in Independent bishops is Davila Garcia while reliable Spanish source use the name Davila Garza. The consecration described in "Independent bishops" is by Pérez Budar in 1933, i.e. impossible since Pérez died in 1931.

–BoBoMisiu (talk) 20:18, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

NPOV tag 2024-07-17
The history section is full of loaded language like "riots were incited" or "armed intruders", which is not only loaded but just unencyclopedic -- it seems like the implication is that were they government agents and/or freemasons(??), but that is left to the imagination.

It would be easy enough to just swap out the most egregious words, but that would just obscure the one-sidedness rather than address it. ShadyNorthAmericanIPs (talk) 21:48, 17 July 2024 (UTC)