American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution by Matthew A. Redinger PAPERBACK

American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924-1936Author(s): Matthew A. Redinger\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268040239, 978-0268040239\nSynopsis\n\""Geography brought them together, but history drove them apart.\"" This is the fundamental reality of the relationship between the United States and Mexico, contends Matthew A. Redinger. Roman Catholics in the United States became increasingly alarmed by the anticlerical articles included in the new Mexican Constitution of 1917 and by the moves to enforce them in the 1920s, through nationalizing church property and closing religious schools. [url] Catholics viewed the anticlerical agenda of radical social reformers as a threat to their very soul. Individual religious and lay leaders and numerous Catholic organizations responded by launching broad-based initiatives to arouse sympathetic public opinion and to force the [url] governmen.