Title: Cristero War - Wikipedia
Headings: Cristero War
Cristero War
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Contents
Background
Conflict between church and state
Crisis
1917 Mexican Constitution
Background
Rebellion
Peaceful resistance
Escalation of violence
Diplomacy
US involvement
Knights of Columbus
Ku Klux Klan
Aftermath
Cárdenas era
Cristeros' crimes against school teachers
Today
Cristero War saints
"Battle Hymn of the Cristeros"
Spanish
English translation
Other views
In popular culture
See also
References
Sources
Historiography
In fiction
In Spanish
External links

Content: Contents
1 Background
1.1 Conflict between church and state
1.1.1 Crisis
1.2 1917 Mexican Constitution
1.3 Background
2 Rebellion
2.1 Peaceful resistance
2.2 Escalation of violence
2.3 Diplomacy
2.4 US involvement
2.4.1 Knights of Columbus
2.4.2 Ku Klux Klan
3 Aftermath
3.1 Cárdenas era
3.1.1 Cristeros' crimes against school teachers
4 Today
4.1 Cristero War saints
5 "Battle Hymn of the Cristeros"
6 Other views
7 In popular culture
8 See also
9 References
10 Sources
10.1 Historiography
10.2 In fiction
10.3 In Spanish
11 External links
Background
Conflict between church and state
A modern reproduction of the flag used by the Cristeros with references to " Viva Cristo Rey " and " Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe "
The Mexican Revolution remains the largest conflict in Mexican history. The overthrow of the dictator Porfirio Díaz unleashed disorder, with many contending factions and regions. The Catholic Church and the Díaz government had come to an informal modus vivendi in which the state formally maintained the anticlerical articles of the liberal Constitution of 1857 but failed to enforce them. Having a change of leadership or a wholesale overturning of the previous order was a potential danger to the Church's position. In the democratizing wave of political activity, the National Catholic Party ( Partido Católico Nacional) was formed. President Francisco Madero was overthrown and assassinated in a February 1913 military coup led by General Victoriano Huerta, who brought back supporters of the Porfirian order. After the ouster of Huerta in 1914, the Catholic Church was the target of revolutionary violence and fierce anticlericalism by many northern revolutionaries. The Constitutionalist faction won the revolution and its leader, Venustiano Carranza, had a new revolutionary constitution drawn up, the Constitution of 1917. It strengthened the anticlericalism of the previous document, but President Carranza and his successor, General Alvaro Obregón, were preoccupied by their internal enemies and were lenient in enforcing the Constitution's anticlerical articles, especially in areas in which the Church was powerful. The Calles administration felt that the Church was challenging its revolutionary initiatives and legal basis.