Reply #12: they tried for almost ten years, after the revolution, They even made it

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against the law for clergy to be seen in public in their clerical garbs. That lasted until the ruling PRI lost control, after seventy four years, of government in '98 (I think). President Fox, was the first Mexican president to be seen, publicly, attending Mass.


See the 1947 movie The Fugitive with Henry Fonda. Tells a lot of what happened in Mexico in that era