...The Partido Conservador sought to monopolize social Catholic activism for most of the 1920s, impeding the emergence of a social Catholic political alternative, but nevertheless a new generation emerged to challenge the Conservative hold over social action. The chapter follows the organization...

... Conservador, which they claimed had been the Church’s salvation from similar religious persecution in their own country. Chile Fuenzalida Gilberto Hohler Thomas Acción Católica Chilena ACC Chilean Catholic Church Partido Conservador social Catholicism Vatican Blest Clotario Club Obrero Conservador...

... a larger political base and would no longer be directed by the Church hierarchy, who were often more socially conservative. The most salient example of this occurred in Chile, where Catholic Action groups who were fed-up with the episcopate’s attempts to bind them to the Partido Conservador eventually...