Editing CEDA (section)

==Ideology==
The party's program followed [[Catholic social teaching]] - on economic issues, the party based their proposals on the encyclicals of [[Leo XIII]] and [[Pius XI]] and sought to compete left-wing parties for working-class support. CEDA disavowed class struggle, recognized the right of women to work outside the home, insisted on the imposition of the family wage, and advocated an egalitarian distribution of land in order to create a large class of smallholders, along distributist and corporatist principles. On social issues, CEDA called for respect of the autonomy of the Catholic Church, including allowing the Church to purchase and own property. It also postulated freedom of religious orders, a new concordat, and the need to maintain "friendly relations in such matters as interest the Church and the State, and for the liquidation of the sectarian legislation that the Governments of the Republic have been dictating unilaterally".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Political Catholicism in Spain's Second Republic (1931-1936): The Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas in Madrid, Seville, and Toledo |first=Samuel M. |last=Pierce |url=https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/01/98/40/00001/pierce_s.pdf |year=2007 |publisher=University of Florida |journal=University of Florida Digital Collections |pages=88–89}}</ref>

According to Jay P. Corrin, CEDA "was a party of moderate Catholic opinion, and many of its members were prepared to support the Republic."<ref name="corrin">{{cite journal |title=The Religious Crusade in Spain |journal=Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy |first=Jay P. |last=Corrin |date=2002 |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |url=http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctvpj7d6c.16 |volume=12 |pages=300–301|doi=10.2307/j.ctvpj7d6c |jstor=j.ctvpj7d6c |url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Juan J. Linz]] described the party as "the rightist center" of the Spanish Republic.<ref name="linzs">{{cite journal |journal=Comparative Politics |volume=8 |issue=3 |department=Special Issue on Peasants and Revolution |date=April 1976 |title=Patterns of Land Tenure, Division of Labor, and Voting Behavior in Europe |first=Juan J. |last=Linz |author-link=Juan J. Linz |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/421406 |page=386|doi=10.2307/421406 |jstor=421406 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> It supported accidentalism, in that it treated the form of the Spanish government irrelevant as long as it protected Catholic interests. It had to accommodate conflicting interests, as while papal encyclicals [[Rerum Novarum]] and [[Quadragesimo Anno]] called for redistribution of landed wealth and industrial reform that would favor the workers, CEDA was also sponsored by the landed oligarchy. Lastly, while the party favored republicanism, its commitment was faint-hearted, as the main goal of the party was the restoration of the Catholic Church to its former position of dominance.<ref name="corrin"/> Nevertheless, the party did oppose military government.<ref name="pierce_179"/>