Sol y Luna: a nationalist-Catholic magazine in the context of the 1930s and 1940s. A definition within the Catholic world and right-wing nationalism with respect to Hispanicism, the Spanish Civil War, Francoism and Fascism.

Abstract

The next article aims to explore the speech of the catholic nationalist magazine Sol y Luna built about the hispanismo, the representation of the Spanish civil war, the franquism and the period between end of 1930’s decade and the beginnings of the following one in the context of demo-liberal modern order’s crisis and the inside conflicts of argentinian Catholicism. In this sense, we seek to explore how Sol y Luna articulated the ideas of Catholicism and nationalism with the conservative hispanist ideario with the porpoise of defining a national identity bonded to Catholicism and project a christian nation order. This was accompainied by a singular interpretation of Spanish Civil War in key of a providential “crusade” understood as a holy war and of an identification with franquism -presented as an encarnation of said crusade-as a nation model that expressed a form of not-totalitarian christian fascism, differentiating both totalitarian experiences of Rusia, Italy and Germany and “democratric totalitarianism”. This lectures expressed an alignment with the position of integrist chatolicism bonded to right wing nationalism -deployed by intellectuals such as Julio Meinvielle and Cesar Pico- facing liberal-democatric Catholicism -preceded by Jacques Maritain- in the context of a catholic debate initiated years before when the civil contest outbreaked.