Integralism masked reactionary social effects behind purely doctrinal theological language.

Evidence

Modernism’s concern was with the relationship of the Church to state and society rather than with theological questions as such, and its main ideological contribution was the theory of “Christian Democracy”—a term which is, for this period, to be understood literally. The Modernist/Christian-Democrat movement was suppressed under the pontificate of Pius X (1903-14) but re emerged with Sturzo and the Partito Popolare in 1918. The reaction to Modernism connected with Pius X goes under the name of Integralism and was a theological movement aimed at reasserting Church authority against secularisation. Integralism, although ostensibly purely doctrinal, had in practice reactionary social effects, and Christian Democracy was for a long time a progressive trend within the Church. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2472

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Islamophobia toolkit’s theme of how ostensibly doctrinal/pure ideological postures carry real political-exclusionary effects — the same masking Gramsci analyzes with hegemony and common sense.
• QUESTION: Interesting parallel: Integralism as theological movement with social consequences echoes how later religious-tradition talk in anti-Muslim discourse masks political projects. Worth chasing how Gramsci treats ‘purely doctrinal’ claims as never really pure.