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Content: 1). During this period, the governor of Sonora ordered all churches closed,
        officials in the state of Tabasco required priests to marry if they were
        to officiate at mass, and the Chihuahua government allowed only one
        priest to minister to the entire statewide Roman Catholic population. Church-state conflict officially ended with the administration of
        Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940-46). With the notable exception of Article
        130, Section 9, the government tacitly offered nonenforcement of key
        constitutional provisions in exchange for the Roman Catholic Church's
        cooperation in achieving social peace. Over the next four decades,
        enforcement of Article 130, Section 9, served the interests of both the
        government and the Roman Catholic Church. The constitutional restriction
        on ecclesiastical political participation enabled the state to limit the
        activities of a powerful competitor. It also permitted the Roman
        Catholic Church to sidestep controversial political issues and to
        concentrate on rebuilding its ecclesiastical structure and presence
        throughout the country. By the early 1980s, however, this unspoken consensus supporting the
        legal status quo had eroded. The Roman Catholic Church regarded the
        constitution's anticlerical provisions, especially those governing
        ecclesiastical political activity, as anachronistic. It demanded the
        right to play a much more visible role in national affairs.