THE CATHOLIC DISCOURSESABOUTTHE FOUNDATION OFTHE CATHOLICACTION IN CHILE AND ARGENTINA. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT ?EXPECTATION HORIZONS?
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2023
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The present article tries to analyze, in a comparative way, the catholic discourses about the foundation of the Catholic Action in Chile and Argentina in 1931. In both countries, the Catholic Action was founded with similar ideas and purposes, but, as the historiography has shown, has played a different role in the decade of the 1930, which was of great importance for the history of the Catholic Church in Chile and Argentina. For this reason, we will analyze the catholic discourses about the CA not only to better understand the role played by this organization, but also to outline the discursive channels opened during the foundation of CA. We will show that these channels led to different ways of thinking and speaking that will be important for the historic development of the Church in both countries. The discourses about the CA opened different "expectation horizons" in Chile and Argentina, which could explain, at least in part, the different attitudes and tendencies of two neighboring and, in many things, so similar Churches. We base our analysis in written sources, as there are: La Revista Catolica, the Boletin de la Accion Catolica for Chile, and Revista Eclesiastica del Arzobispado de Buenos Aires, El Boletin Oficial de la Accion Catolica, the Anuario Catolico and the Boletin del Asesor de la Accion Catolica for Argentina.
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Catholic Action, Chile, Argentina, Catholic Church, expectation horizons