José Zanca, Intelectuales católicos y el fin del la cristiandad, 1955-1966.

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Chapter 1: The Hopeless Generation

Young Catholic intellectuals not part of the “boom” and marginalized from intellectual
life – but continued to demand a place for Catholic thought

Criterio 1958: “In a cultural world like ours, secularized to the nails and hostile to the
Church and what

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the Church represents, we want to give testimony to the most authentic Christian
presence, in so far as our ability allows”

Despite a short spring in 1955, Catholics were distanced from the rest of intellectuals
in the 1950s – ‘a decade of conflict between irreconcilable ideological models’