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Julio Meinvielle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julio Meinvielle
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Father Julio Meinvielle (31 August 1905 - 2 August 1973)

was an Argentine priest and prolific writer. A leading Roman
Catholic Church thinker of his time, he was associated with
the far right tendency within Argentine Catholic thinking. As a
polemicist he had a strong influence on the development of
nacionalismo.

Julio Meinvielle
Born

Julio Meinvielle
31 August 1905
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Died

2 August 1973 (aged 67)

Nationality

Argentine

Education

Doctor of Philosophy and

Theology

1 Background

Occupation

Priest

2 Catholic orthodoxy

Known for

Writer

3 Antisemitism

Notable work

From Lammenais to Maritain

4 Later years

Tacuara Nationalist Movement

5 Influence

Political
party

6 References

Opponent(s)

Jacques Maritain

Religion

Roman Catholic Church

Contents

Background
Meinvielle studied for his Doctorate in Philosophy and Theology in Rome and soon afterwards became a prolific
writer of religious, historical and economic books within the school of Thomism.[1] He came to see history as a
process of decline in Catholic values, as determined by three events that he saw as catastrophic i.e. the work of
Martin Luther, the French Revolution and the October Revolution.[2]

Catholic orthodoxy
Meinvielle was a staunch critic of what he perceived as slipping standards in Catholic teaching. On this basis he had
a well publicized feud with Jacques Maritain during the late 1930s. The conflict had begun in 1936 when Maritain
visited Argentina for the first time and was initially well received by a number of leading Catholic figures.[3] As
editor of the integralist journal Critero Meinvielle attacked Maritain as the 'advocate of the Spanish Reds', sparking
off a war of words between the two.[4] His book From Lammenais to Maritain was actually an attack on the
ideas of Jacques Maritain, claiming that Maritain was defending the faithlessness of modern society by his
endorsement of liberalism.[5] Tracing the origins of Maritain's work to Hugues Felicit Robert de Lamennais as well
as that of Marc Sangnier and Le Sillon, he argued that the humanism of these writers was incompatible with the
Catholic faith.[6]

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