Abstract
Since Argentina's 1983 return to constitutional government, the nation's Catholic Church has faced charges of abdicating moral leadership during the years of military repression. Instead of answering its critics directly, the hierarchy has renewed the Church's traditional defense of religious values in education, family life, and the communications media. The clergy's renewed assertion of its public significance reflects the attitude that the Church best serves Argentina by fostering national unity in faith and morality.1 This article argues that in the early twentieth century, the Church embraced social activism as a means of restoring prestige lost in the political and economic climate of the era. Catholic accion social tried to carve
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