The term "Social Catholicism" is used to describe the structural reform movement of economic society on the European continent under the leadership of Roman Catholic Church and concerned individuals. The "Social Weeks of France", established in 1904 as an advanced research center, played an important part in Social Catholicism. This paper discusses the development of the social economic structural reform movement through consideration of the "Social Weeks of France" from 1904 to 1939. The "Social Weeks" structural reform program was based on the principle of organising employees and employers into trades unions and employer associations, and the cooperation of representatives of these groups on professional councils, and the cooperation of these councils with the State-Corporatism based on the cooperation between employee, employer, and the State. The content of this reform program changed over time. From 1904 to 1914, activists of the "Social Weeks" mainly discussed the organisation of trades unions. In the 1920s, however, they successively presented ideas for structural reform based on the principles of Corporatism. Later, in the latter half of 1930s, activists of the "Social Weeks" began to search for a connection between their ideas of structural reform, and neo-liberal and Protestant theories which assured a price mechanism in markets which otherwise restricted the activities of certain social groups. There are two reasons for the progression of the reform programs of the "Social Weeks". First, while the contents of structure reform program proposed by activists changed with the times, there was no change in their aim of realising an economic society providing the "assurance of minimum standard of living" and the "liberty of the human". Second, the Catholic "Social Weeks" was becoming de-Christianized.

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