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The Catholics who occupied a cathedral

At Charlotte Was Both, Amy Welborn praised an academic article by Jennifer Scheper Hughes, which looked at reforms in the Mexican Diocese of Cuernavaca in the 1950s. The bishop renovated the cathedral, removing saints’ images – which he said were a distraction from the Eucharist – and replacing the old crucifix with a modern one: as Hughes describes it, “head raised, eyes open, arms thrown out in a gesture of welcome and blessing”.

According to popular memory, “in the wake of the renovations a group of lay Catholics forcefully occupied the cathedral, blockading the bishop’s access to his own seat for eight days in protest.”