Nuestro Estado ha de ser un Estado católico en lo social: la familia y la Iglesia en el discurso social de los regímenes ibéricos en las décadas de 1930-1960

Abstract

The dictatorships of Franco and Salazar had in common several instruments that contributed to the edification and support of their regimes over time: Church and Family became the cornerstones of State discourses. Beneath the protection of the mantle of Christianity and supported upon their notions of the family, the Iberian dictators built what they called social policy: the role of family was reinforced in terms of its social tasks of assistance and welfare, and the Church ensured the legitimization of the social action that the regimes called their own. In the new ideological context that was established after the Second World War, where the fascist environment was weakening, the discourse of the regimes clung increasingly to traditionalist values to disguise the true colours of their social policies.