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The Modification of the Anti-Clerical Nationalism of the Mexican Revolution by General Lázaro Cárdenas and Its Relationship to the Church-State Detente in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Albert L. Michaels
Albert L. Michaels*
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State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
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The man of the Revolution disputed the very nature of Mexico with the Roman Catholic. The revolutionary, whether Callista or Cardenista, believed that the church had had a pernicious influence on the history of Mexico. He claimed that Mexico could not become a modern nation until the government had eradicated all the influence of the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic, on the other hand, was convinced that his religion was the basis of Mexico's nationality. Above all, the Catholic believed that Mexico needed a system of order. He was convinced that his faith had brought order and peace to Mexico in the colonial period, and as the faith declined, Mexico degenerated into anarchy.

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The Americas , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , July 1969 , pp. 35 - 53
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1969

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