Derechas nacionalistas e Iglesia en la Europa católica de entreguerras: el caso francés, italiano, español y portugués desde una perspectiva comparada

Abstract

Right-wing Nationalisms and Church in Catholic Europe between the two wars: the French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese cases in a comparative perspective

After a preliminary survey on Catholic Church’s attitude toward the issue of nation and in front of the rise of right-wing nationalists, the article deals with the Action Française, Italian nationalism until its confluence into the Partito Nazionale Fascista, Spanish National Catholicism until the birth of the periodical Acción Española and the Integralismo Lusitano movement, mainly in order to identify the aspects of Catholicism used by them in the construction of their political projects. Secondly, it deals with the permeability of different Catholicisms in respect to these projects. Thirdly, through a comparative approach, it tries to rec- ognize existing analogies and differences among the cases in question, with parti- cular attention to the religious factor. Finally, the article pretends to verify the ade- quacy of the concept of National Catholicism as broad historiographic category, able to explain and interpret some politico-ideological processes typical of some countries of the Catholic Europe between the two world wars.