19291776 Club
Morrow and Burke broker a peace; Mexico's three-year Cristero War is over
The arreglos settlement lets worship resume and strips the Church's backing from rebel fighters, though the anticlerical articles of the 1917 Constitution stand untouched.
Three years of religious warfare had left roughly 90,000 dead and driven an estimated five percent of Mexico's population north across the border. On June 21, 1929, U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow — working alongside Father John J. Burke of the National Catholic Welfare Conference — finalized the arreglos, a negotiated settlement between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church. Worship resumed, the Church ended its support for the Cristero rebels, and the armed uprising gradually collapsed — though the anticlerical articles of the 1917 Constitution stayed on the books…
