Centro Dom Vital

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The Centro Dom Vital is a Catholic Brazilian association of writers and intellectuals founded by Jackson de Figueiredo in 1922 with the support of the then Auxiliary Bishop and later Cardinal Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro , Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra .

History and work

In 1916, Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, then Bishop of Olinda , wrote a highly regarded pastoral letter in which he a. a. criticized the lack of a Catholic intellectuality. To counter this, he supported the then very well-known intellectual Jackson de Figueiredo in founding an appropriate association. This is how the Centro Dom Vital was created in 1922 , which developed into a cadre forge for the education of young Catholic personalities. The association was named for its fight against liberalism in the XIX. Century famous bishop of Olinda, Vital Maria Conçalves de Oliveira . The journalistic organ was the magazine A Ordem (The Order). De Figueiredo was the association's first president. He was followed by Alceu Amoroso Lima in 1928 .

Important personalities of the country's political Catholicism worked in the Centro Dom Vital or were influenced by it: Hamilton Nogueira, Gustavo Corção, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira , Sobral Pinto, Perilo Gomes, Allindo Vieira, Jonatas Serrano and others. a. Several personalities from this group later worked politically in the Liga Eleitoral Católica .

literature

  • Thomas C. Bruneau: The political transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Cambridge University Press 1974. ISBN 0521202566 .
  • Scott Mainwaring: The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil 1916-1985 . Stanford University Press 1986 ISBN 0804713200 (p. 30 ff.)
  • Margaret Todaro Williams: Jackson de Figueiredo, Catholic Thinker: A Psychobiographical Study . The Americas, vol 31, No. 2, Oct 1974, pages 139-193.
  • Margaret Todaro Williams: The Politicization of the Brazilian Catholic Church: The Catholic Electoral League . Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Aug. 1974).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of names from Scott Mainwaring: The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil 1916-1985 . Stanford University Press 1986 ISBN 0804713200 , p. 31