Before coming to Mexico, the Inquisition had a long history in Europe. This article explains how it went from being a medieval ecclesiastical tribunal to becoming an instrument of the Spanish monarchy under the Catholic Monarchs and Torquemada. 

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/origins-of-the-spanish-inquisition-the-antecedent-of-the-new-spain/

In 1624, two nuns in Mexico City claimed to have had visions about the mutiny against Viceroy Gelves. Their testimonies, full of supernatural revelations, demons and souls in purgatory, show how religion was mixed with politics in New Spain. 

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/testimonies-of-visionary-nuns-in-new-spain-revelations-demons-and-souls-in-purgatory/

Novo-Hispanic life was marked by faith: processions, votive offerings and patronages. With no canonized saints of its own -except for Felipe de Jesús-, Guadalupanismo became the great sign of identity. 

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/popular-religiosity-in-new-spain-from-the-virgin-of-guadalupe-to-the-frustrated-saints/

A journey through the lives of the bishops and archbishops of New Spain, from advocates such as Garcés and Vasco de Quiroga to power figures such as Moya de Contreras and Palafox.

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/the-most-influential-bishops-of-new-spain-from-zumarraga-to-palafox/

The New Spain Church was not a homogeneous block: bishops, friars and civil authorities were involved in lawsuits that marked the religious life of New Spain.

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/the-internal-wars-of-the-church-in-new-spain-secular-clergy-vs-religious-orders/

The councils of New Spain were key in the organization of the New Spain Church. From the discipline of the clergy to the evangelization of the indigenous peoples, these assemblies left a legacy that defined the religious and social life of the viceroyalty. 

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/how-the-councils-marked-the-course-of-the-church-in-new-spain/

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the secular clergy in New Spain was a means of prestige, social mobility and power. Its privileges, such as ecclesiastical privileges and prebends, would be questioned and abolished in the Reform War. 

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/the-clergy-in-new-spain-privileges-and-education/

Novohispanic women's convents were centers of piety and economic power, but also spaces of enclosure and moral control: onerous dowries, internal factions, guarded parlors and houses of seclusion reveal the less idealized face of the female religious world.

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/the-church-and-women-in-new-spain-convents-beaterios-and-recollections/

The Novohispanic Church was a key power in the life of the viceroyalty: under the royal patronage, it controlled missions, tithes, bishops and parishes, in close relationship -and tension- with the Crown and the viceroy.

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/how-ecclesiastical-power-functioned-in-new-spain-patronage-clergy-and-parishes/

In the seventeenth century, New Spain was the scene of fierce feuds between viceroys and archbishops. The mutiny of 1624 and the fear of the Portuguese in 1641 show how power struggles shook the viceroyalty. 

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https://www.xikoova.com/en/lawsuits-between-viceroys-and-archbishops-in-new-spain-in-the-17th-century/