Dom Aldo Mongiano e a defesa das causas indígenas em Roraima (1975-1996)

• Autor(a) principal: Catão, Maria do Rosario Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UNICAP
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.unicap.br:8080/handle/tede/345
• topic: Mongiano, Aldo, 1919-; dissertações; igreja e problemas sociais - Roraima - Igreja Católica; posse da terra - Roraima; índios - trato - Roraima; Igreja Católica - Roraima - história; Mongiano, Aldo, 1919-; dissertations; church and social problems - Roraima - Catholic Church; tenure - Roraima; indians - tract - Roraima; Catholic Church - Roraima - history; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA

This study is a test about the history of Roraima Catholic Church and its engagement to the fight of the native causes. In it, it is showed the acting of the emeritus bishop Dom Aldo Mongiano, between the years of 1975 and 1996. Together with the priests missionaries of Consolata, he put his ministry in defense of a cause: the limitation and ratification of Indians territories occupied by farmers and prospectors. The facts narrated and analyzed here, are based on books and scientific articles, as well as documents available at the Roraima Diocese and also an interview done by Professor Jaci Guilherme, with Dom Aldo himself. Therefore, breaking the specific methodology of a bibliographic research, the work is also a documentary inquiry. The analysis of the collected documents, revealed that, there were conflicts between the church and the local power for the Indians cause, as well as the way how the ecclesial institution has contributed to the formation and strengthen of Indian citizenship in a process of boldness which emerges gradually.