... by the Catholic Church and the conservative social classes, and the progressive experiments, driven by the enlightened and the liberals first, and the republicans and the socialists later. As a consequence of that, the fight for finishing with illiteracy and guaranteeing universal schooling underwent permanent...

... and foremost, to their religious life, and that teaching, while seen as very important, would, if necessary, take second place. The period (1891-1965) was the “heyday” of the religious orders and constitutes a distinct era in the history of the Catholic Church. The book is framed by two events that took place...