"Cruzeta em revolução": juventude, poder e religião numa comunidade rural potiguar (1957-1964)
Between the 1950s and 60s, the Brazilian Catholic Church went through a process of institutional renewal and updating, stimulated by endogenous and external factors, linked to the specificity of the socio-political and economic situation of the period, which profoundly affected its ecclesial inst...
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
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| Summary: | Between the 1950s and 60s, the Brazilian Catholic Church went through a process of
institutional renewal and updating, stimulated by endogenous and external factors, linked to the
specificity of the socio-political and economic situation of the period, which profoundly
affected its ecclesial institutions and its pastoral models . This process of institutional updating
experienced at the most global level in response to the dilemmas posed by the contemporary
world, which would become known as aggiornamento, acquired particular features as it was
being implemented in the most varied places. In Cruzeta, a parish belonging to the Diocese of
Caicó, ecclesiastical province of Rio Grande do Norte, the figure of Father Ernesto da Silva
Espínola (1928-2011), played the pioneering role in this renewal process. Inflated by this new
ecclesiastical spirit, he would be responsible for implementing various practices of pastoral
innovation, which would intensify the Church's work with the local community, especially
among young people and rural workers, in order to promote the unity of the Church, now
conceived more as “people of God” than as hierarchy and clergy. His actions in the field of
rural pastoral work that would make the parish of Cruzeta one of the most progressive in the
Diocese of Caicó, would mark the advent of the modern Church in the locality. In this process
of institutional renewal, Catholic youth would acquire an important role, coming to be seen by
the hierarchy as the main transforming social agent and an important “ally” in its project to
transform history, since it is seen as the sector most sensitive to changes historical. These are
the pastoral actions carried out in the social sphere of the parish by the vicar Ernesto in
partnership with the Catholic laity, notably from the youth sector, in favor of a Christian
community project defended by the Church as a “contemporary alternative” to a more radical
and virulent transformation project of the social order propagated by leftist ideologies, which
we intend to investigate more closely in this study. |
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