Herencia doctrinal y proyección del tradicionalismo e integrismo católico español en Sabino Arana-Goiri

During the nineteenth century, Spanish political Catholicism developed as a systematic reaction against liberalism. Among its most influential figures was Juan Donoso Cortés, a central theorist of counterrevolutionary Catholic conservatism, whose defense of order and orthodoxy shaped both neo-Catholicism and, subsequently, Catholic Integralism. The latter, under the leadership of Ramón Nocedal, carried the condemnation of liberalism to its extreme, though its radicalism weakened its social base and provoked tensions in the Basque-Navarrese context. Within this setting, the nationalism of Sabino Arana-Goiri emerged, not as a rupture with Spanish Catholic Integralism but as its radicalization and culmination in a distinctly Basque key. Its true novelty lay in the explicit formulation of the aspiration to independence, paradoxically articulated against Spain, despite being constructed upon the very same categories and doctrinal framework of Catholic Integralism.