The Politics of Catholic Worship in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

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Conover, Cornelius

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2018

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16

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Worship at the Mexico City cathedral from the 1840s to the 1890s was intentionally local, national, and universal. Canons actively promoted holy figures to convey messages of defiance to a reforming state, global Catholic solidarity, constancy under persecution, loyalty to the papacy, and solace to parishioners. The Roman Curia, too, demonstrated special consideration for afflicted Mexican parishioners by authorizing an unusually large number of devotional privileges. When radical liberals prevailed after fifty years of internecine wars, prelates proposed to win the peace by constructing an expiatory temple dedicated to San Felipe de Jesús, where the country might atone for sins committed in the violence of the nineteenth century.|Keywords: Mexico City, Catholic Church, saints, Pius IX, Reforma

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Conover, C. (2018). The Politics of Catholic Worship in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 16, 16-38.

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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