Abstract
This chapter examines the partnering of the US federal government and US Catholic Church and the creation of the first US Catholic Latina/o ministry program during and immediately after World War II. At its core, this chapter is about how the federal government used a religious institution to try to engage and reach Latina/os throughout the country. The chapter follows the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and its attempts to engage Latina/os during World War II. It then turns to the Department of Labor to understand how one portion of the federal government used its political allies within the Catholic Church to regulate migratory farm labor. In both cases, politics and the making of political alliances between bureaucracies—federal and Catholic—are an integral part of Latina/o religious politics.
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