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During the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), a group of Catholic immigrants - mostly Irish - switched sides and went to battle for Mexico! Long before Masses began to be celebrated in vernacular languages, linguistic differences did not stop them from recognizing their bond with Mexican Catholics.
during the period of “The Reform” (1854-76) and then after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917), laws were put in place not only to separate Church and state, but to restrict Catholics’ ability to practice and transmit their faith in public life....
Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Iniquis afflictisque (November 18, 1926), denounced the “sad and unjust conditions under which the Catholic religion” was suffering in Mexico and the difficulty of finding a solution to “the heavy burden of these great evils” (The Recent, Long-Hidden War for Religious Freedom, Aletia, 2/25/26).
Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
