Then-Deacon Juan Miguel Contreras Garcia in vocations video. The priest was murdered outside Guadalajara.
A priest on the outskirts of Guadalajara has been murdered, the second priest in a week killed in Mexico. Father Juan Miguel Contreras Garcia, 33, was shot dead late on April 20 in Tlajomulco de Zuniga by unidentified attackers in his parish office, reportedly while hearing a confession. “We make an urgent call to build a culture of peace and reconciliation. These lamentable events call all of us to a much deeper and sincere conversion. It is time to look honestly at our culture and society, and to ask ourselves why we have lost respect for life and for the sacred,” said Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega, the Archbishop of Guadalajara.
The cardinal asked the Catholic faithful to accompany their priests with prayer and in the pastoral service to the communities entrusted to them.
