The Centralists were generally conservative and favoured a strong central government in the viceregal tradition, a paid national army, and Roman Catholicism as the exclusive religion. The Federalists favoured limited central government, local militia, and nearly autonomous states; they tended to be anticlerical and opposed the continuance of colonial fueros, which gave special status to ecclesiastics and the military and exempted them from various civil obligations.
Yes, the answers are B. Christianity gave people hope for a better future--at least in the afterlife. and C. Jesus' teachings made many Romans feel their life had meaning.
