Cardinal Raymond Burke: Confronting the World: A Nine-Month Novena

Seven years from now, in the year 2031, the Church will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Saint Juan Diego. Much can happen in seven years, for much happened in the seven years that followed her apparitions, most of all, the conversion of millions of souls to the Catholic faith.

The world into which the Virgin Mother of God entered by her apparitions at Tepeyac, in what is today Mexico City, from December 9th to 12th, 1531, was marked by sharp contrasts. On the one hand, there was an open rebellion against God and His Law written upon every human heart. The Aztec people were engaging in a cruel and wholesale practice of human sacrifice, killing violently innocent and defenseless human lives in the name of their religion. Wicked men had perverted the religious sense of the people, so that they no longer listened to the voice of God in their heart, the conscience, which teaches every man of good will that it is always and everywhere wrong to destroy innocent and defenseless human life. At the same time, a number of the Spanish explorers, for the sake of selfish interests, viewed the native people as less than human and, therefore, thought nothing of using military force to conquer them, at the cost of many human lives and of great destruction of the necessities of life. ….

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