Abstract

Along with the tragic and unprecedented social scene, whose origin refers to the

economic policies of the last military dictatorship, during the crisis and exit from the

convertibility regime, we witnessed the political clash between two dominant sector blocks

around the building of a consensus concerning the interpretation of the crisis. Some authors

regard the "Catholic Church" as ‘another agent’ in that symbolic conflict. However, we do

not have an exhaustive analysis of what the Church exactly ‘said’ and ‘did' in that context.

Therefore, some questions arise: What was the hegemonic interpretation of the episcopalhierarchy

about the convertibility crisis? How were the political and economic fields and the

practices of their agents conceived? What assumptions were present in its speech so as to

establish itself as a legitimate agent of intervention in the earthly world? Would it be correct

to characterize the bishops members of the AEC's (Argentine Episcopal Conference) as

"contenders" of the economic or political field amidst a dispute taking place in these fields?

Hence, reducing its vast heterogeneity to another -Argentine Episcopal Conference-, our aim

is to contribute to, deepen and problematize, within the field of economic sociology, the

complex ideological framework that worked behind the collective construction of the

episcopal speeches in the context of the crisis and the exit from the convertibility regime.