 Pasi pomutungamiri wenguva pfupi Emilio Portes Gil, Chechi yeRoma Katurike muMexico nehurumende yeMexico vakanga vasvika pachibvumirano chaizogumisa Hondo yeCristeromuna 1929. Chechi yeKaturike yakanga isina kufara kuti kwakanga kune nhevedzano dzinopfuurira dzokurwisana neKaturike mumativi enyika, zvikurukuru Jalisco neChiapas. Papa Pius XI akabudisa encyclical yaipokana nomutemo weMexico unokuvadza vafundisi veKaturike. Rodríguez akaramba zvakasimba encyclical seyakazara nenhema uye yaizokurudzira vafundisi kusateerera zvisarudzo zveMexico. Mumiriri weVatican muMexico, Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres, akaedza kutaura kuti hurumende yeMexico yakanga isina kunzwisisa shoko raPapa. Dare reCongress rakakumbira kuti adzingwe, uye akaiswa mundege. Ruiz y Flores ipapo akakumbira vaKaturike veMexico kuti vasave mitezo yePNR sezvo yakanga iri yezvemagariro evanhu uye isingatendi kuti kuna Mwari, uye akadanira chiito navakatendeka veKaturike. MuKaturike ari wose anofanira kushandurwa kuva chikoro chedzidziso yechiKristu - kuva muapostora chaiye - uye tichaona kuti chitambudzo chinoshandurwa kuva zvikomborero zvinobva Kudenga. VaCalles vaishora zvikuru vafundisi, vane mitemo apo vaiva purezidhendi yakanga yakonzera Hondo yeCristero, vakadaidzira kuti mumiriri wapapa pamwe chete nomukuru wamabhishopi weMexico vadzingwe. Mumiriri wapapa akanga atova kunze kwenyika uye aizosungwa kudai akadzoka. Rodríguez akapa Portes Gil, panguva iyoyo aiva gurukota rezvemukati menyika, mvumo yokunyora murayiridzo, waaigona kukurukura naCalles. Matanho akatorwa mukurwisana navakuru vakuru vorudzidziso, asi hakuna kuva nokumukira kwavaKaturike kurwisana nehurumende, pasinei zvapo nekurudziro dzavakuru vorudzidziso dzokuita kudaro. 