La Conferencia Episcopal Argentina en tiempos del retorno democrático, 1983-1989. La participación política del actor eclesiástico

• Main Author: Mariano D. Fabris
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2011-07-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: 20th century; Alfonsín; argentine; Church; democracy; politics
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61732

The principal object that guides this investigation is to understand how the Church, institution that had achieved a privileged place in the argentine’s politics during the long time of instability that inaugurated the coup d'état of 1930, answered to the challenges imposed by the new political context from 1983. It thinks that, in the frame of the ruin of the military government and – particularly - from the democratic return, the Church appeared to the eyes of an important fraction of political and intellectual leaders as a corporate actor whose protagonism must be put in discussion. From this consideration it will be analyzed of what way the answers tested by the ecclesiastic hierarchy affected the political status of the catholic Church and his social presence during Raúl Alfonsín’s presidency. Likewise, there is argued that the catholic hierarchy continued enjoying a political protagonism emphasized in the political - social configuration of the eighties thanks to the legitimization that the political, union and military actors granted to the proclaimed apolitical of the Argentine Synod