Operários da fé: uma leitura da juventude operária católica a partir da Diocese de Caxias do Sul/RS

Abstract

This project intends to analyze how the relationship between cleric and lay militants of the JOC (Juventude Operária Católica – Catholic Youth Labor) were, in Caxias do Sul RS, and in which way Christian ideological precepts and Marxists present in the jocista literature lived together, in the period between 1955 and 1975. Besides, the conviviality of more progressive elements of the Church with the clergy, in general, conservative of the area is also studied in this research. The mentioned aspects are investigated under the light of transformations in political and socioeconomic context inherent to the period. JOC, integrant of the Catholic Action (Lay Formation and Evangelization International Movement), configured one of the laity mobilization mechanisms used by the Church in the intention of promoting social transformation, mainly starting from the "option for the poor" which characterized the Vatican Council II. Such posture, from the most progressive segment of the clergy, found contusing obstacles with