Notas sobre el catolicismo social cusqueño: El canónigo Isaías Vargas y sus Apuntes críticos sobre asuntos indigenistas

Abstract

The objective of the article is to make known the social thought of Father Isaías Vargas Bueno in the context of the Peruvian indigenist debate during the first half of the twen­tieth century. As a canon of Cusco and a close collaborator of Bishop Pedro Farfán, an important part of his pastoral work was linked to the study of the problems of the rural world in the Andean south and to the development of a persevering activism in favor of the native rights for more than four de­cades. Vargas participated in a social-Christian current that, being critical of the Marxism and the liberalism, raised a set of reformist proposals to benefit the indigenous population.