Propagande catholique et littérature populaire : l’Église face aux défis de la question sociale (1876-1902)

• Main Author: Solange Hibbs
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2020-12-01
• Series: Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
• Subjects: Catholic Church; popular propaganda; social catholicism; religious and edifying literature
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ccec/9887

During the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, the Spanish Catholic Church, encouraged by the Pope Leo xiii encyclicals and the six National Catholic Assemblies which took place from 1889 to 1903, sustained an offensive strategy of rechristianization of the civil society. In order to do so, the Catholic Spanish Church benefited from the freedom of expression and association implemented after the sexenio. With the support of Catholic laymen and the clergy, the Spanish Church coordinated multifaceted initiatives so as to intensify catholic propaganda.