11/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Seminar Room 06
Proponent:
Ruderer S.
Chair:
Fernández M.
Speaker:
Álvarez Sj C.,
Fernández J.I.,
Fernández M.,
Ruderer S.
The panel "Social Catholicism in the Southern Cone of Latin America in the 20th Century" aims to analyze the influence of social Catholicism in the countries of the Southern Cone (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil) in the 20th century. We want to review the different ways in which social Catholicism materialized in the national Churches, analyzing its role in the historical development of these Churches and its interaction with politics in the different countries. From the influence of the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) through Quadragesimo anno (1931), the role of worker priests, the impact of the Second Vatican Council and liberation theology to the Catholic resistance to the last dictatorships, the idea is to compare the role and influence of the actors of social Catholicism in these predominantly Catholic countries, but with very different Church-State relations in the 20th century. In this way, the panel promises to shed light on a very important variant of Latin American Catholicism and its relations and interdependence with the political world and societies of the Southern Cone. With the idea of incorporating presentations on different periods of the 20th century, the aim is to be able to follow the historical development of social Catholicism and to take into account the political and ecclesiastical context in which its different variants were configured in the countries of the Southern Cone. In this way, we hope to be able to contribute to a better understanding of a catholic doctrine that had an important boom in the Latin American continent, but whose importance spread beyond its borders.