Jewish Film Producers Anger
Mexican Catholics

Film "El Crimen del Padre Amaro" (The Crime of Father Amaro) is
Anti-Catholic says Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez of Guadalajara

by
Hector Carreon
La Voz de Aztlan

Tenochtitlan, Mexico - August 13, 2002 - (ACN) Jewish film producers Alfredo Ripstein and Daniel Birman Ripstein, of Alameda Films in Mexico City, have insulted and angered millions of devout Mexican Catholics as well as the hierarchy of the Mexican Catholic Church with their release of what has been called a "blasphemous and sacrilegious anti-Catholic film". The film "El Crimen del Padre Amaro" (The Crime of Father Amaro) depicts Catholic priests as being sexually immoral and as taking "narcolimosnas" or handouts from Mexican drug cartels.

The film is loosely based on a novel with the same name by Portuguese author José María Eca de Queiroz that was written in 1895. The film plot takes place in a small Mexican village, Los Reyes, where 24 year old Father Amaro is sent by the local Bishop to assist the aging parish priest Padre Benito. Padre Benito has, for many years, been having a secret sexual relationship with his village concubine Sanjuanera. Father Amaro, after a short time, falls in love with Sanjuanera's 16 year daughter Amelia and makes her pregnant. Father Amaro starts realizing that everything in Los Reyes is not what it seems to be. He learns that Padre Benito is taking money from the region's narco-traffickers. The film makes allusions that Cardinals and the Pope are involved with drug cartels as well. The revelations start taking a toll on young Father Amaro and when Padre Benito has a heart attack, the accumulated problems makes Father Amaro lose his faith.

The film has been condemned by the Mexican Catholic Church and a strong protest sent to President Vicente Fox by many Catholic organizations because government funds were used , in part, to produce the film.

Among the most energetic condemnations is that of Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez of Guadalajara. He affirmed that the film by the Jewish producers was partially financed by the Mexican government through the "Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)" and the "Fondo de Fomento a la Producción de Cine de Calidad (Foprocine)". The Director of IMCINE is Alfredo Joskowicz, a Mexican Jew and good friend of the Riptseins.

The Cardinal in addition affirmed that the film implicates the Pope with narco-trafficking. Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez also condemns the film for its depiction of a priest having sex inside a church with a woman who reaches out to cover herself with the robe of the Virgin Mary. Also, according to the Cardinal, there is a scene where a women during "Holy Communion" regurgitates the "host' and gives it to a cat. Such is the way of Jews who seek to denigrate the Catholic faith, insult Christianity in general and defame Jesus Christ in particular. The Cardinal laments that the film was produced by the Jews with public monies. He said, "The government should not be paying to make these sort of films. What we need is better roads, more schools, universities, hospitals, and electric generating plants, this is what the government should dedicate itself to and not to financing these sort of films".

Another strong condemnation came from the Archbishop of San Luis de Potosí, Luis Morales Reyes. Archbishop Morales Reyes is president of the large and powerful "Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (CEM)". Archbishop Morales Reyes said the film is designed to attack Catholic religious symbols and to weaken the faith of Catholics. He said that the Jewish producers are making a mockery of Catholicism and the Church. In Mexico, approximately 93% of the population are Catholics according to the "Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas".

On Sunday, Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City also had some strong words against the film. He said that the film represents "an increasing lack of religious faith in Mexico and intolerance against religious institutions". Cardinal Rivera played a significant role in having the release of the film postponed until after the recent visit of Pope Paul II to Mexico City. It is generally believed that the planned release date of just prior to August 1, 2002 was to embarrass the Pope during the Canonization of Juan Diego in Mexico City.

There is increasing awareness in Mexico that attacks on the Catholic Church comes usually from Jewish film producers, authors, journalists and artists as are attacks on Christianity in the United States. In 1998, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights protested the play "Corpus Christi" by homosexual Jewish playwrite Terrence McNally. In the play, Terrence McNally depicts Jesus Christ as "King of the Queers" and having sex with the disciples. Mexican film producers Alfredo Ripstein and Daniel Birman Ripstein of Alameda Films are no different than Terrence McNally. These Jewish film producers and playwrite are out to denigrate Christianity because they do not believe that Jesus Christ was the true Messiah. They essentially hate Jesus and use plays and films to destroy his image.

There are now allegations that the Jewish controlled news and information media capitalized on the homosexual pedophilia problem among Catholic priests to destroy the church. There may be some truth to these allegations because there are a significant number of Jewish rabbis that are molesting children as well, yet the mainstream media hardly covers these incidents. There are also other horrible crimes being committed by rabbis and no one is saying anything about it. One thing for sure, the Vatican, the Catholic Church in Mexico and the Catholic Church in United States are not speaking out against the Jews who are slowly undermining Christianity. The Jews can make despicable films about Christians but no one dares to make a film about the despicable acts of Jews. The film "El Crimen del Padre Amaro" should perhaps be counteracted by a film "El Crimen del Rabino Shlomo".