sentences:  As Cárdenas increasingly diverged in his thinking and practice from Calles, Calles sought to regain control.Cárdenas, however, had outmaneuvered Calles politically, gaining allies among labor unions and peasants, as well as the Catholic Church.Calles had attempted to strictly enforce the anticlerical provisions of the Constitution, which led directly to conflict with the Catholic Church and its loyalists, so that in the conflict between the two generals, the Church sided with Cárdenas.