O catolicismo nas tramas do poder: a estadualização diocesana na Primeira República (1889-1930)

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Edgar da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12728
• topic: Igreja Católica; Catolicismo; Estado; Política; Instituição; Poder; Roman Catholic Church; Catholicism; State; Politics; Institution; Power; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This research aims to deepen the debates regarding the questions involving the restructuring of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil and link this restructure with Republican State after the Church-State separation of power by Decree 119-A in January 7th of 1890 of the Provisional Government of the Republic. It was a new situation that arises beyond the ecclesiastical elite, deeply used to be a part of the universe inside State´s power. With an insignificant diocese, that emerged during colonial and imperial times of Brazilian history, this important structure of the Catholicism administration was crushed duo to the ties that bound Catholic Church and State at the system of patronage. Since the first meeting of the episcopate in São Paulo in 1890 there was a great mobilization around the proposal that intent to expand the Diocesan network and with the support of the Saint Faith was put into practice an ambitious plan that consisting of erecting at least one diocese in each State of the Federation as soon as possible. The urgency explains itself, even with the lack of resources, across the fact that the republicanism provided to the states some sort of autonomy that never existed before. The first Republican Constitution, published in 1891 was not the church´s wolf exactly, but limited considerably the Church´s influence inside the power. The research realized for this project was majority made at the Archivio Segreto Vaticano and brings a significant variety of documents about the political articulations necessary to execute this project. As nothing in politics is innocent there were several contradictions in the course, as much as conspiracies and scheming involving partisan politics that we are so used to see and hear about and where the political alliances not always follows ideals but, in so many times, contradicted these ideals instead. In this way, the main objective of the ecclesiastical elite was achieved. Documents are quite specific in this regard. The purpose of this research was try to articulate some schemes that State and Church together make use of to overcome differences and to forge actions creating new forms of acquaintance and interests intending to favor themselves at the secular republic State