The Boy Scouts in Spain (1913-1915): Distrust and Divisions in Spanish Episcopacy Authors Pere Fullana Puigserver Universitat de les Illes Balears Keywords: Scouts in Spain, Catholicism, education, neutral school, Regenerationism. Abstract This article presents documentation related to the origins of the scout movement in Spain, specifically a record from the Apostolic Nunciature of Madrid during the mandate of Nuncio Francesco Ragonesi (1913-1921). The documentation was found in the Vatican Secret Archives. The collection comprises eight documents sent to the Nunciature, three of which are letters (one from the Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo and two from the Archbishops of Granada and Valladolid); notes (draft replies to the Archbishop of Granada) from the Apostolic Nuncio; three documents from Teodoro Iradier, Scout Commissioner for Spain and, finally, a dispatch from Francisco Garcia Molinas regarding the 1914 National Assembly Programme. The records of the Apostolic Nunciature of Madrid are supplemented by 14 press cuttings. The controversy arose from the lack of trust amongst certain bishops with regard to the pedagogical approach of the Scouts, in a context where the Spanish ecclesiastical hierarchy supported confessionalism in social and educational work. Scouting was accused of being both Krausist and Regenerationist, i.e. part of the ‘neutral school’ network in Spain that was equivalent to the secular school system in France. The debate was not made public until the National Assembly of Explorers in 1915Keywords: Scouts in Spain, Catholicism, education, neutral school, Regenerationism. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF PDF (Español) Issue No. 34 (2019): juliol-desembre Section Documents License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.