Cristero War

revolutions. In the year 1926 after years of increasing government hostility to the Catholic Church in Mexico, the working class of Mexico rebelled and launched a war that would come very close to overthrowing the anti-Catholic government of Mexico. The war would come to be known as the Cristero war. The spark that ignited the Cristero war was when President Calles of Mexico ordered the enforcement of the anti-clerical laws of Mexico’s 1917 constitution. The reason that the government of Mexico wished

Corruption in the Catholic Church was real; the Church has always had a strong present in Mexico since the beginnings. For instance, those in the strong circle of the Church who are not part of the clergy have always been men of power who hold swayed over the government. They have passed laws that benefit the Church, such as the example I pointed out before of Title 1. Precisely, for this reason, was why the Mexican liberals hated the clergy. The main problem and reason why the anti-clerical liberals

and Calles announced that the government would be inflexible. He reiterated that they would use every capability the law provided in dealing with problems that arise from the populace. This assault on the Church was considered the beginning of the Cristero Rebellion.

all the power that the Catholic Church had. Many Priests and innocent people were killed during the war. Since there were countless amounts of people that died defending their faith, lots of saints and martyrs came out of this war. Just how Lindner tried to interfere with the Younger family so they wouldn’t move into the white neighborhood the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wanted to take part in the war because they were against the Catholic faith. Both the african americans and the catholics were going

Glory (aka Cristiada) by Pablo José Barroso is a 2012 epic historical war drama film  directed by Dean Wright and written by Michael Love, based on the true story of the Cristero War. While Mexico is not a country that many would associate with religious persecution, there was a time when it was not only against the law, but dangerous for Catholics to practice their faith there. In the years 1926 through 1929, Mexico fought a war over the freedom of Roman Catholics to worship. As a result of the Mexican

The Cristero War began in the mid 19 century as liberal ideas were being included in the Constitution of 1857. From that came many disagreements between the religious beliefs of those in the country and the laws being put out which lead to the Revolution of 1910. In the year 1916 Venustiano Carranza and many other political leaders saw the Catholic Church as an obstacle in making social changes in Mexico. With this, they got together and made the Constitution of 1917 which reduced the social and

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