Between Rome and the Second Vatican Council Catholic Nationalism’s Religious Representations through Combate (1955-1967)

Las representaciones religiosas del nacionalismo católico a través del periódico Combate (1955-1967)

Abstract

In the following article, we propose to analyze the religious representations of Argentine Catholic nationalism from the Combate newspaper between 1955 and 1967, a period coinciding lato sensu with the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It is considered that Catholic nationalism has been the object of study of political historiography, neglecting the reception of the most important religious event of the universal Catholic Church in the 20th century. From the advances of historiography, it is argued that the editors of Combate did not oppose Vatican II, although they did strongly criticize some aspects of it, but rather offered an interpretation that stressed continuity with the Catholic tradition.