Tesis
A atuação de Dom José Ivo Lorscheiter durante a ditadura civil-militar brasileira (1964-1985)
Fecha
2017-03-13Autor
Torres, Thiago Alves
Institución
Resumen
This work presents a study about the performance of the Catholic bishop Dom José Ivo
Lorscheiter during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985). Through this, it is
searched to emphasize the protagonism assumed by the religious in the defense of human rights.
The research is based on a bibliographical data of the presence of the Catholic Church in Brazil,
starting with the Proclamation of the Republic and with the historiographical contextualization
of two ecclesiastical events that influenced the pastoral practice and the trajectory of Dom José
Ivo Lorscheiter, the Vatican Ecumenical Council II, held in Vatican (1962-1965), and the
Second General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, held in Medellín, in Colombia
(1968), events that provoked theoretical and structural changes for the Church in Latin America,
and demand from the Catholic Church a position focused on the defense of human rights. Our
investigation is centered on the role of the prelate after assuming prominent positions at the
Brazilian National Bishops' Conference (CNBB), first as general secretary, and then as
president of the organization in both situations for two consecutive terms when we inquire about
the position of the prelate in the period of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the
participation of the Catholic Church in the civil-military pre-coup and, later, in the civil-military
dictatorship. With the help of Michel Foucault, we can say that the political discourse adopted
by the religious is a consequence of his first pastoral and then social practice. Together with the
CNBB, he had to make himself present and express himself as a result of situations that affected
laymen and clerics, regarding the violation of human rights. To do so, we search subsidies in
newspaper sources, magazines and documents deposited in archives. In addition, by
appropriating the contributions of Pierre Bourdieu, we seek to understand the ideological
function of religions. In our investigation, we focused on analysis in Catholicism, which sought,
especially in the period before the Second Vatican Council, to absolutize dogmas and impose
principles that became unquestionable and opposed to temporal changes, and which were
defended by members of the Church's leadership Prior to the Second Vatican Council. In both
the post-Vatican I and post-Vatican II period and the Medellin Conference, the Catholic Church
sought to form its members, first, in the unrestricted view of self-preservation, and years later,
while remaining in the vicinity of the people who were suffering from the most diverse forms
of rape and marginalization.