Catholic Social Action in Mallorca during the second half of the 20th century. Analysis of a social commitment Authors Joan Josep Matas Pastor CESAG - UP Comillas DOI: 10.2436/20.3009.01.317 Keywords: Catholic Action, Caritas, Third Social Sector, Charity, Social Justice Abstract The article aims to outline the main lines of the social action of the Catholic Church of Mallorca throughout the 20th century. We analyze the presence and actions of the Church towards the most vulnerable groups in society. In fact, we went from a beneficent-charitable social action with a paternalistic tone at the beginning of the 20th century, to a more structural presence with a vocation for social justice from the second half of the 20th century.From the diocesan Caritas and the Specialized Catholic Action, especially that of the working class, a whole series of social initiatives arose during the 1960s. These continued during the democratic transition as the current state of welfare was consolidated. So, the Church of Mallorca is trying to adapt to this new situation by articulating a network of confessional and non-confessional entities, either already existing or newly created, with the aim of responding to structural needs and conjunctures of economic development. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2024-10-01 Issue No. 44 (2024): juliol-desembre: Història de l'educació social en la segona meitat del segle XX: polítiques, institucions, entitats i educadors Section Monographic theme 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.