Abstract
Although the Catholic Church wielded enormous power in Guate mala during the colonial and early national periods, the Liberal reforms of the 1870s severely restricted the Church for some sixty years. The institution experienced more freedom under Jorge Ubico from 1931 to 1944 as the hierarchy and the dictator reached a detente of sorts, but some authors claim that church-state relations grew increasingly abra sive during the revolutionary decade (1944-1954). Several scholars cite charges of the government's connection to communists as well as its continued rejection of clerical privileges as the cause of the friction between church and state. Preoccupied with these questions the Gua temalan Church provided an effective and unified opposition to the Revolutionary governments, and proved unable to acknowledge and embrace the positive social reforms embarked upon by the Arevalo and Arbenz administrations.1
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