Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: The Return to Human Sacrifice in Mexico

In the year 1531, Our Lady appeared to a lowly Mexican peasant by the name of Juan Diego.

At the time, Mexico was still in thrall to the blood-thirsty ancient Aztec religion, in which human sacrifice played a key role. Diego himself was of Aztec descent. However, he and his wife were among some of the first Aztecs to be baptized after the arrival of a group of Franciscan friars.

In becoming Christian, Juan Diego accepted a religion that differed radically from that followed by his own people.

A 2011 article in History Today recounts but one example of the unbelievable scale of Aztec slaughter. “[The Aztecs were] a culture obsessed with death: they believed that human sacrifice was the highest form of karmic healing,” wrote historian Tim Stanley. …

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