Abstract

After a preliminary survey of the scholarship on the Spanish Church's attitude to WWI and Spanish neutrality, the article provides an initial overview of the position of the newspaper "El Debate", of the Jesuits' periodical ("Razón y fe"), the Dominicans' ("La Ciencia tomista"), and other Church publications. The resulting picture confirms that Spanish Catholicism was mostly in favour of the Central Powers; the author discusses the motivations for this and sheds light on the persistence of an interpretation that the war was a consequence of secularization.