![]() The structure of the Catholic Church was very religious as such, they were rightfully threatened by the revolution. The ideology of the revolution was deep-set in Marxist values which were against religion. When the Revolutionary struggle began in the 1960s and 1970s with the Sandinistas, the Church did not support it. The Church and the Revolutionary Struggle Eventually the Church became united in their opposition toward Somoza the problem was that the Church was not able to decide where to make their next alliance. The Church could no longer support this government, but they were still in favor of the state’s ideologies of hierarchies and capitalist systems this caused a divide within the clergy. ![]() It was not until the late 1970s that the Church began to divide their loyalties away from the Somozas it was at this time that they started to recognize the repression and human rights abuses that were not concurrent with the bible. The Somozas controlled and promoted the Church as long as the Church was not critical of its state by supporting the Church, the Somozas gained popularity among the people of Nicaragua. Throughout this time, the Somozas and the Church remained in good relations. After the first Somoza, there were 2 more successors in the Somoza regime which kept this family in power for over 40 years. The Catholic Church was recognized as the official religion, and despite the legal separation of church and state, church-run schools continued to flourish. A new constitution was born under the Somoza regime in 1950 it was a negotiation between previous anticlerical measures and traditional church privileges. ![]() Their new loyalties stemmed from the fact that Somoza stated himself as an anti-Marxist and did not continue the persecution of the Church as liberals before him had, but also, that Somoza was responsible for Sandino’s death. ![]() When liberal leader Anastasio Somoza García took power in 1936, the Church abandoned their loyalties to the Conservatives and became dedicated to the Somoza regime. The Church was opposed to Sandino because of his ties with the Mexican government of 1926-29, which partook in Anti-clericalism. In the mid-1920s a revolutionary, Augusto César Sandino, tried sweeping Nicaragua with Bolshevik ideals. In 1909 Zeyala was forced out of power and the Conservatives re-consolidated their power and instituted a new constitution in 1912 which reaffirmed Church privileges. Zelaya instituted a new constitution which called for the separation of the Church and state and the nationalization of Church property, in addition to the termination of the concordato, secular education, and civil marriages. In the 1893 election, the Conservatives lost to the Liberals and a new leader came to power: José Santos Zelaya. The Concrodato gave the government the right to nominate Church officials but in return, the State was to financially support the Catholic Church. During the whole power struggle the Church maintained warm relations with the Conservatives, in return, in 1862 the Concordato was signed by the Conservative government and the Vatican. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, the Liberals and Conservatives vied for ultimate power over the state the Conservatives consolidated their power in 1856. In the post-independence period, the Conservative party was the dominant political party in Nicaragua as such, the Church allied itself with the Conservatives to protect its privileges and maintain its influence in society.Īfter 1823 the Liberals gained power by violently repressing the Conservatives, however, the Church continued their alliance with the Conservatives. In the middle to late colonial periods, the Church served the crown in their failing attempts to curb liberal wanting economic independence. In the Colonial period, the Church acted as a check-up on conquistadors who pursued their own feudal interests contrary to those of the Spanish Crown and those of the Church itself. The Catholic Church has a long history of close relations with the state and government in power. The Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan Revolution
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