Pie XII et l’Amérique latine, entre panlatinisme catholique et Occident chrétien

Pius XII and Latin America, between Catholic Pan-Latinism and the Christian West What are the perspectives of the Pacelli pontificate in Latin America, as the region is becoming increasingly significant, as it is today, in the global Church? In Rome, the Communist threat meant that the old liberal enemy was more acceptable than before. However, the Atlanticist turn of Pius XII, underpinned by the notion of a “Christian West”, encountered in these Catholic bastions a nationalism that was viscerally anti-liberal and opposed to the United States. It resulted in the deep tensions revealed by the pan-Latin populism of Perón.