Spain's Congress of Deputies banned the creation of any new Catholic religious orders for two years until a new concordat with the Vatican was to be reached.
The same bill brought in universal military conscription.
For the most part, most Americans play very little attention to Spanish politics in any one era, let alone in the early 20th Century. Historically minded people sort of pick up Spain with the Spanish Civil War and run through Franco, and that's about it. There was, however, a lot going on.
Something we don't note much now at all is that a wave of European anticlericalism commenced with the horrors of the failed French Revolution. While that revolution is still bizarrely celebrated, it descended into anarchy brought about by an urban French populist mob until that was effectively brought to an end by Napoleon. Napoleon carried on in the name of the spirit of the revolution, much like monder MAGA claim to honor the American Revolution, while at the same time suppressing it. France did bring the theoretical ideals of the revolution, however, to Europe at large, by force.
Every European revolution and populist movement after that for 150 years looked towards the French Revolution and brought, by and large, the worst of it with them, including anti clericalism, ignoring the example of the French themselves who continually worked to address the revolution while claiming not to betray it. As the Church stood in the way of the worst of the ideals of the French Revolution, left wing and populist movements continually sought to suppress it.
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