Carlos Monsiváis (1938), writer and literary critic, is an indispensable figure in the Mexican literary tradition of the second haif of the twentieth century. He lays out in New Cathecisrn of Recalcitrant Indians a demonstration of his lucid and powerful style. The present volume could be taken as a mere selection of short stories based in the principies of Christianity. However, it is a harsh criticism to what Christianity conveys: subordination and submission of confronted ideologies. The book strongly questions the categorization of ideas and the racism that came up when, as Monsiváis states, the true religion and nauseous idolatries were escablished in Mexico. This fable deals with the topic of power over religious beliefs. It presents the confiict between the pagan Indians and their counterpart, the friars, humorously portraying the ways in which religion monopolizes faith. Monsiváis ridicules with brilliant irony the vices, abuses, contradictions, and hypocrisies of those who profess the sacred values of the church.