Father, Where Art Thou? Catholic Priests and Mexico's 1929 Relación de Sacerdotes

Matthew Butler is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous publications on the history of the Cristero movement and of Catholicism in Mexico and is currently finishing a book manuscript on the history of constitutional Catholicisms in modern Mexico. He also researches agrarian and indigenous history in Mexico and is director of a British Library–funded project to digitize and study the records of indigenous land privatizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico.

Kevin D. Powell is a historian of Latin American religion and ideas. He received his MA at the University of Chicago in 2018. He is currently working on two projects. The first examines the religious roots of José Enrique Rodó's Ariel (1900), which Powell interprets as a secular and literary iteration of long-standing critiques of Anglo-American culture generated by Catholic clergy in response to the expansion of Protestantism in the Río de la Plata. His second project discusses the transnational consolidation of networks of Catholic integralist lay movements in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile and the emergence of the Latin American Anti-Communist Confederation.