A longa presença da Igreja Católica no Brasil foi marcada pelo permanente contato com as instâncias de poder do Estado. Lado a lado ou em campos opostos, mas sempre na condição de forças que se influenciaram mutuamente, essa relação encerra parte importante da história nacional. Tendo isso como pano de fundo, por meio da documentação produzida pelo Departamento de Ordem Política e Social do Estado de São Paulo sobre o setor social católico, esta pesquisa buscou apreender elementos políticos e religiosos que teriam causado atritos entre Estado/Igreja no período de 1954 a 1974. Partiu-se da concepção de que os discursos e as práticas de uma parte do catolicismo nacional em busca de uma reformulação econômica da sociedade, então fundamentada na lógica capitalista, seriam uma das causas dessas contradições. / The long standing presence of the Catholic Church in Brazil was characterized by the permanent contact with the instances of the power of the state. Side by side or in opposite fields, but always in the conditions of forces that influenced each other, this relationship ends the important part of the national history. Having this like a background, via the documentation produced by the Department of Political and Social order of the State of Sao Paulo considering the catholic social sector, this research attempted to learn the political and religious elements that could have caused conflicts between the State/Church between 1954 to 1974. The discourses and the practices of one part of the national Catholicism in search of an economic reformulation of society, based on the capitalist logic, was seen as one of the reasons for these contradictions.

This dissertation examines the ideological development of the Catholic University Student (JUC) movements in Cuba and Brazil during the Cold War and their organizational predecessors and intellectual influences in interwar Europe. Transnational Catholicism prioritized the attempt to influence youth and in particular, university students, within the context of Catholic nations within Atlantic civilization in the middle of the twentieth century. This dissertation argues that the Catholic university movements achieved a relatively high level of social and political influence in a number of countries in Latin America and that the experience of the Catholic student activists led them to experience ideological conflict and in some cases, rupture, with the conservative ideology of the Catholic hierarchy. Catholic student movements flourished after World War II in the context of an emerging youth culture. The proliferation of student organizations became part of the ideological battlefield of the Cold War. Catholic university students also played key roles in the Cuban Revolution (1957-1959) and in the attempted political and social reforms in Brazil under President João Goulart (1961-1964). The JUC, under the guidance of the Church hierarchy, attempted to avoid aligning itself with either ideological camp in the Cold War, but rather to chart a Third Way between materialistic capitalism and atheistic socialism. Thousands of students in over 70 nations were intensively trained to think critically about pressing social issues. This paper will to place the Catholic Student movement in Cuba in the larger context of transnational Catholic university movements using archival evidence, newspaper accounts and secondary sources. Despite the hierarchy’s attempt to utilize students as a tool of influence, the actual lived experience of students equipped them to think critically about social issues, and helped lay a foundation for the progressive student politics of the late 1960s and the rise of liberation theology in the1970s.

Nesta dissertação, analisamos as experiências de luta e de conflito desenvolvidos por um grupo da Ação Católica, a Juventude Operária Católica (JOC), entre os anos de 1954 a 1964 no município de Santo André, no ABC paulista. Observamos as relações daquele grupo com a hierarquia eclesiástica da diocese em que estavam inseridos e com outras organizações de operários com os quais se relacionavam. Aquele momento apresentava um cenário mundial onde a União Soviética, comunista, e os Estados Unidos da América, capitalista, mostravam-se como grandes potências e procuravam marcar suas influências sobre as demais nações do mundo. No Brasil visualizávamos a participação do capital internacional na indústria e a expansão das tensões sociais na cidade e no campo. A Igreja Católica, no afã de evitar a expansão do comunismo e de reafirmar seu poder de influência na sociedade, pautou-se na Doutrina Social Católica e arregimentou a ação social do laicato através do programa da Ação Católica. / In this search, we analyze the experiences of fight and conflict developed by a group of the Action Catholic, the Juventude Operária Católica (Catholic Laborers Youth, JOC), among the years 1954 to 1964, in the city of Santo Andre, on ABC of São Paulo. We observed the relations of the group with the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the diocese where they were inserted and with others organizations of laborers with which they related. That moment presented a world-wide scene where the Soviet Union, communist, and the United States of America, capitalist, revealed as great powers and looked for to mark its influences on the others nations of the world. In Brazil we visualized the participation of the international capital in the industry and the expansion of the social tensions in the city and the countryside. The Church Catholic, to prevent the expansion of the communism and to reaffirm its power of influence in the society, used the Social Doctrine Catholic and congregated the social action of the secular through the program of the Action Catholic

Quelle place occupe la religion dans l'engagement des agriculteurs-paysans français, soucieux de la nature ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous déployons une approche sociologique historicisée de la construction d'une identité paysanne militante depuis la fin des années 1940. À partir de la philosophie de Jacques Maritain, une pensée nouvelle de la modernité infuse le mouvement paysan via l'Action catholique. Contre le traditionalisme s'élabore une personnalisation de l’engagement chrétien et paysan, moteur de la modernisation des campagnes dans une mise à distance d'un ordre naturel, politique et social lié au catholicisme. Plus tard, sous l’influence majeure d’un marxisme diffusé et retravaillé par des traducteurs chrétiens, une partie des agriculteurs progressistes radicalise ses analyses politiques et se rapproche de nouvelles luttes et de nouveaux acteurs sociaux tels que l’écologie. Dans ce rapprochement, les institutions religieuses et le discours qu’elles entretiennent sur la nature se trouvent mis à distance. Toutefois, les conceptions politiques, sociales et économiques embrassées – conceptualisées dans l’agriculture-paysanne – conservent la trace d’un héritage religieux de plus en plus éthicisé. Cette éthique prend comme objet central le respect de la vie, et légitime des pratiques agricoles alternatives selon le primat du spirituel contre l'anomie moderne. Autour de ce thème se fédèrent des profils variés, enfants d'agriculteurs et néoruraux, catholiques, agnostiques et adeptes de spiritualités diverses. / What part does religion play in the practices of farmers concerned about the environment? To answer this question, we shall employ a sociological yet historical approach to the building of an activist peasant identity since the end of the 1940s. At the time, based on the philosophical perspective developed by Jacques Maritain, a new understanding of modernity influenced the peasant movement via the Catholic Action. In reaction to traditionalism, this approach soon gave way to a more personal and individual conception of peasant and Christian activism, providing a new impetus for the modernisation of rural areas while marginalizing the natural, political and social order inherited from Catholicism. Later, under the significant influence of a revised version of Marxism spread by Christian translators, some progressive farmers radicalised their political analyses and showed a growing interest in new battles and new social operators such as ecology. As a consequence, this new interest edged out religious institutions and their positions about nature. Yet, today, the intertwined political, social and economic conceptions–conceptualised all together in peasant-farming–still retain the mark of a religious heritage in an increasingly ethical way. This ethical stance considers the right to life a core value, and finds legitimacy in alternative farming approaches on the basis of the prevalence of spirituality over modern anomie. This topic brings together people from various horizons, such as farmers’ children, neo-rural individuals, Catholics, agnostics and spiritually diverse people.

Nesta dissertação, analisamos as experiências de luta e de conflito desenvolvidos por um grupo da Ação Católica, a Juventude Operária Católica (JOC), entre os anos de 1954 a 1964 no município de Santo André, no ABC paulista. Observamos as relações daquele grupo com a hierarquia eclesiástica da diocese em que estavam inseridos e com outras organizações de operários com os quais se relacionavam. Aquele momento apresentava um cenário mundial onde a União Soviética, comunista, e os Estados Unidos da América, capitalista, mostravam-se como grandes potências e procuravam marcar suas influências sobre as demais nações do mundo. No Brasil visualizávamos a participação do capital internacional na indústria e a expansão das tensões sociais na cidade e no campo. A Igreja Católica, no afã de evitar a expansão do comunismo e de reafirmar seu poder de influência na sociedade, pautou-se na Doutrina Social Católica e arregimentou a ação social do laicato através do programa da Ação Católica. / In this search, we analyze the experiences of fight and conflict developed by a group of the Action Catholic, the Juventude Operária Católica (Catholic Laborers Youth, JOC), among the years 1954 to 1964, in the city of Santo Andre, on ABC of São Paulo. We observed the relations of the group with the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the diocese where they were inserted and with others organizations of laborers with which they related. That moment presented a world-wide scene where the Soviet Union, communist, and the United States of America, capitalist, revealed as great powers and looked for to mark its influences on the others nations of the world. In Brazil we visualized the participation of the international capital in the industry and the expansion of the social tensions in the city and the countryside. The Church Catholic, to prevent the expansion of the communism and to reaffirm its power of influence in the society, used the Social Doctrine Catholic and congregated the social action of the secular through the program of the Action Catholic

Étudiant en histoire à La Sorbonne, Henri Rollet (1917-2003) découvre l’action sociale de l’Église, grâce à Mgr Chaptal, évêque auxiliaire de Paris. Sa responsabilité de « patron » dans l’industrie ne l’empêche pas, en 1948, de soutenir une thèse de doctorat qui retrace l’action sociale des catholiques en France (1871-1901). Dès l’année suivante, il est nommé président du Secrétariat Social de Paris. Plus tard il deviendra président national, puis international de l’action catholique des hommes, auditeur laïc au Concile Vatican II, et ensuite président de l’Institut Catholique de Paris. Pendant cette période, il écrit plusieurs ouvrages souvent historiques sur le rôle des catholiques sociaux, rédige beaucoup d’articles, donne de très nombreuses conférences. C’est essentiellement à partir des informations et commentaires donnés par la presse sur ses livres, articles, et conférences, que l’on peut découvrir le comportement, les opinions, et les prises de position de ce laïc engagé. Comment, au cours de cette deuxième partie du XX° siècle, a-t-il conçu et exercé sa mission de laïc engagé ? Comment a-t-il porté témoignage de sa foi, en France, mais également dans d’autres pays ? Comment a-t-il milité pour donner au laïc un rôle plus important au sein de l’Église ? Comme on le verra, un certain nombre de sujets énoncés il y a cinquante ans, sont encore d’actualité ! À partir des documents retrouvés, ce travail tente de répondre à ces questions, en montrant toute l’importance et l’actualité de la Doctrine Sociale de l’Église. / While studying history at the Sorbonne, Henri Rollet (1917-2003) discovered the Church’s social teaching through Emmanuel Chaptal, an auxiliary bishop of Paris. Though he was an industry manager, he nevertheless submitted a doctoral thesis in 1948 on how Catholics had engaged with French society between 1871 and 1901. The following year, he was appointed President of the Secrétariat Social de Paris. Later he would become national President and then international President of Catholic Action for men, a lay auditor at Vatican II, and then president of the Institut Catholique de Paris. During this period he wrote several works on the role of socially engaged Catholics, mostly of a historical kind, as well as many articles; and he gave numerous conferences. It is essentially though press reports and commentaries on his books, articles and talks that one can discover who this committed lay person was: his attitudes, his opinions, the stands he took. How did this committed lay person conceive and carry out his mission in the second half of the 20th century? How did he bear witness to his faith, not only in France but also in other countries? How did he struggle to give the lay person a more significant role within the Church? As will be seen, a number of topics worked through fifty years ago are still all too relevant. Drawing on newly discovered documents, this study attempts to answer these questions, while bringing out the full importance and relevance of Catholic Social Teaching.

After the First World War, the Catholic Church intensified its interest in a world that was becoming ever more secular and began to look for new means of actively and creatively taking part in cultural affairs. Cinematography was one of the areas in which this trend became most apparent. It was shortly after the invention of cinematograph that various ideas and plans regarding how to deal with film began to emerge among Catholics. Consequently, the Pope gave his blessing to community-based initiatives and included them in his plan in the encyclical Vigilanti Cura. This study seeks to familiarise the reader with a multifarious mixture of interesting, and often contradictory, voices and opinions that were heard from Czech Catholics with regard to film. Catholic activities in the field of film are divided into three basic areas: production, classification and distribution, with the first area concerning the effort to make their own Catholic films. This study demonstrates the problems faced in this endeavour by presenting the difficulties in the making of the film Saint Wenceslas and the consequent relationship of Catholics to the completed work. The classification of films from the Catholic point of view was carried out systematically and in a coordinated manner. The study deals with the origins of...

Catholic Action was an international movement that encouraged active promotion of the Catholic faith by ordinary believers. While the idea gained force at a local level in Italy in the early twentieth century, Pope Pius XI gave the philosophy official Church approval in 1931. Catholic Action served as a major intellectual and religious force among American Catholics from the Great Depression until the transformations in Catholicism caused by the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. The program encouraged American Catholics both to promote the practice of the faith among fellow Church members and to express Catholic teachings in the public realm in order to influence political and economic policy. Because the Church's social teaching articulated strong reservations regarding free-market capitalism, Catholic Action proved compelling to progressives and leftists among the faithful. American Catholic leftists during this era continued a long tradition of social justice activism among Catholic immigrant workers and their descendants. Yet Catholic political mobilization could also serve conservative ends, as when believers gathered in rallies against Hollywood movies or communism. Regardless of whether they engaged in progressive or conservative activism, however, Catholics' organized efforts in the mid-twentieth century fortified their already strong sense of religious identity. This thesis examines two Catholic public figures in Portland, Oregon during the era of Catholic Action: Hall S. Lusk, a lawyer who held many public offices including that of Oregon Supreme Court Justice, and Francis J. Murnane, a leader in the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Biographies of the two men demonstrate that the two served as important spokesmen for Catholic principles in mostly non-Catholic Portland. While Lusk viewed Catholic Action as an opportunity to strengthen American Catholics' devotion to the nation, Murnane's version authorized radical dissent against the nation's social and economic structure. An analytical chapter examines how the same Catholic Action philosophy drove the two men in different directions politically but imbued each with a strong sense of Catholic identity. The Conclusion discusses the continued relevance of the study of the Catholic Action period by pointing to the surprising durability of Catholic cultural cohesion throughout American history and to the powerful force that religious faith possesses to inspire activists on both the left and the right.

À partir des études récentes démontrant l’importance des élites catholiques dans la foulée des changements et de la modernisation de la société québécoise entre les années 1930 et 1970, nous tentons de mieux comprendre ces élites, leurs motifs et leur destin. Issues des jeunes générations de laïcs contestataires des années 1930 et 1940, nous montrons d’abord que les élites catholiques laïques ont été influencées par des courants philosophiques de renouveau chrétien et par leur formation dans l’Action catholique spécialisée. En contestant le cléricalisme et le conservatisme présents au Québec entre 1930 et 1960, elles ont développé une pensée réformiste se situant dans l’esprit du concile Vatican II et de la Révolution tranquille. Un trait caractérise ces élites: même en étant critiques envers l’Église catholique, elles sont tout de même demeurées loyales envers le catholicisme. Nous proposons de nous réapproprier la sociologie de Max Weber afin de mieux comprendre l’implication des élites catholiques laïques à la modernisation de la société québécoise et, par là, de saisir le type particulier de sécularisation qu’a connu le Québec des années 1950 à 1970. Pour ce faire, nous retenons les parcours de vie et le discours de trois représentants de ces élites: Guy Rocher, Jacques Grand’Maison et Claude Ryan. À partir de ces acteurs, nous délinéons trois « voies » distinctes empruntées par les élites catholiques laïques pour s’engager dans la société. Ces trois « voies » relatent certes des types d’engagement différents, mais elles renvoient aussi à un ancrage catholique commun. En considérant le point de vue de ces élites face aux transformations du paysage religieux au Québec, nous examinons enfin l’utilisation du concept de sécularisation par rapport à la laïcisation et la déconfessionnalisation ainsi que les enjeux actuels liés à la religion. / Based on recent studies acknowledging the importance of Catholic elites in the changes leading to the modernization of Quebec society between 1930 and 1970, this master thesis try to provide a better understanding of these elites, their motives and their destiny. Stemming from the young generations of lay protesters of the 1930’s and 1940’s, the lay Catholic elites were influenced by philosophical tendencies within the Christian renewal and their formation in the “Action catholique”. Questioning the clericalism and the social and political conservatism prevalent in Quebec between 1930 and 1960, they put forward a reformist thought tuned with the “spirit” of the Vatican II council and of the Quiet Revolution. One characteristic of these elite: even if they were critical of the Catholic Church, they retained a loyalty towards the Catholicism. I propose to “reappropriate” the sociology of Max Weber in order to better understand the involvement of lay Catholic elites to the modernization of Quebec society and, thus, grasp the particular kind of secularization that take place between 1950 and 1970 in Quebec. In order to do so, I study the life trajectories and discourses of three actors from these elites: Guy Rocher, Jacques Grand’Maison and Claude Ryan. With these actors in mind, I describe three distinct “ways” taken by the lay Catholic elites to get involved in their society. Those three “ways” certainly relate three different types of involvement, but they also refer to a common Catholic feeling of belonging. Considering the point of view of these elites together with the transformations of Quebec’s religious landscape, I can question the use of the concepts of secularization, laicization, and deconfessionalization and, thus, describe the way religious issues are dealt with.

À partir des études récentes démontrant l’importance des élites catholiques dans la foulée des changements et de la modernisation de la société québécoise entre les années 1930 et 1970, nous tentons de mieux comprendre ces élites, leurs motifs et leur destin. Issues des jeunes générations de laïcs contestataires des années 1930 et 1940, nous montrons d’abord que les élites catholiques laïques ont été influencées par des courants philosophiques de renouveau chrétien et par leur formation dans l’Action catholique spécialisée. En contestant le cléricalisme et le conservatisme présents au Québec entre 1930 et 1960, elles ont développé une pensée réformiste se situant dans l’esprit du concile Vatican II et de la Révolution tranquille. Un trait caractérise ces élites: même en étant critiques envers l’Église catholique, elles sont tout de même demeurées loyales envers le catholicisme. Nous proposons de nous réapproprier la sociologie de Max Weber afin de mieux comprendre l’implication des élites catholiques laïques à la modernisation de la société québécoise et, par là, de saisir le type particulier de sécularisation qu’a connu le Québec des années 1950 à 1970. Pour ce faire, nous retenons les parcours de vie et le discours de trois représentants de ces élites: Guy Rocher, Jacques Grand’Maison et Claude Ryan. À partir de ces acteurs, nous délinéons trois « voies » distinctes empruntées par les élites catholiques laïques pour s’engager dans la société. Ces trois « voies » relatent certes des types d’engagement différents, mais elles renvoient aussi à un ancrage catholique commun. En considérant le point de vue de ces élites face aux transformations du paysage religieux au Québec, nous examinons enfin l’utilisation du concept de sécularisation par rapport à la laïcisation et la déconfessionnalisation ainsi que les enjeux actuels liés à la religion. / Based on recent studies acknowledging the importance of Catholic elites in the changes leading to the modernization of Quebec society between 1930 and 1970, this master thesis try to provide a better understanding of these elites, their motives and their destiny. Stemming from the young generations of lay protesters of the 1930’s and 1940’s, the lay Catholic elites were influenced by philosophical tendencies within the Christian renewal and their formation in the “Action catholique”. Questioning the clericalism and the social and political conservatism prevalent in Quebec between 1930 and 1960, they put forward a reformist thought tuned with the “spirit” of the Vatican II council and of the Quiet Revolution. One characteristic of these elite: even if they were critical of the Catholic Church, they retained a loyalty towards the Catholicism. I propose to “reappropriate” the sociology of Max Weber in order to better understand the involvement of lay Catholic elites to the modernization of Quebec society and, thus, grasp the particular kind of secularization that take place between 1950 and 1970 in Quebec. In order to do so, I study the life trajectories and discourses of three actors from these elites: Guy Rocher, Jacques Grand’Maison and Claude Ryan. With these actors in mind, I describe three distinct “ways” taken by the lay Catholic elites to get involved in their society. Those three “ways” certainly relate three different types of involvement, but they also refer to a common Catholic feeling of belonging. Considering the point of view of these elites together with the transformations of Quebec’s religious landscape, I can question the use of the concepts of secularization, laicization, and deconfessionalization and, thus, describe the way religious issues are dealt with.