 American Catholics bitterly attacked Ambassador Josephus Daniels for failing to combat the virulent attacks on the Catholic Church by the Mexican government.Daniels was a staunch Methodist and worked well with Catholics in the U.S., but he had little sympathy for the Church in Mexico, feeling it represented the landed aristocracy that stood opposed to his version of liberalism.For the same reason he supported the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War, which was even more intensely anti-Catholic.