From El Pueblo to Esquiú. Updating and conservative regression related to the Catholic press crisis

Modernización y regresión conservadora frente a la crisis de la prensa católica

Abstract

This article proposes a closer relationship to the catholic press by 20th century masses of Argentina. In part it is motivated by the publication of the book by Miranda Lida on the newspaper El Pueblo (2012) where the author describes forms of interaction between the traditional newspaper and society and lists an ample variety of initiatives aimed at consolidating the presence of the catholic press. Her proposal seems adequate to approach another catholic medium, Esquiú magazine, and for this reason we try to open a dialogue with her experiences in this essay. This attempt is not arbitrary since El Pueblo and Esquiú were the most important journalistic catholic projects of the 20th century. Although each one intervened in a different social and political context, there was an attempt on the part of Esquiú to follow the path of El Pueblo and occupy the vacant place it had left after its disappearance in the late 50’s. Nor it is fortuitous either that the Luchía Puig brothers, founders of Esquiú, had previously been directors of the journal launched by Father Grote in 1900.