Sacred oratory and interwar political culture in Argentina: the case of Priest Juan Bernardino Lértora

Abstract

This work proposes that the ministers of the Catholic Church can become political opinion makers through preaching, with an argumentative force as dense as any other type of intellectual discourse, given the use of different registers such as history, science politics and rhetoric. To support this assumption, the sources that we will privilege will be sermons, a central input in religious celebrations. Based on indications proposed by the history of Catholicism and discourse analysis, fragments of the political culture of interwar Catholicism will be reconstructed from a capillary dimension, thanks to an original and unpublished source such as the sacred oratory of the Argentine Priest Juan Bernardino Lértora.