The Cristero Counterrevolution and the Battle for the Soul of Mexico music and strangers

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Newman felt compelled to write a rebuttal

” —Most Reverend Antonio Guido Filipazzi

In Africa as elsewhere

The Cristero Counterrevolution and the Battle for the Soul of Mexico music and strangersA true religious war, never before seen on our continent, broke out as a result of certain persecutory laws against the Church and her faithful in Mexico from 1926 to 1929. In the conflict, a large part of the Catholic laity, using peaceful means at first and later violent ones, took up arms against the civil governmenteven to the regret and against the advice of many in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, unsure of the right course of action to take.