 In response, the Knights of Columbus published posters and magazines presenting Cristero soldiers in a positive light.In the mid-1920s, high-ranking members of the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan offered Calles $10,000 to help fight the Catholic Church.The offer came after the Knights of Columbus in the US secretly offered a group of Cristero rebels $1,000 in financial assistance to be used to purchase guns and ammunition.