Movendo as peças do tabuleiro: a atuação de Dom Vicente Scherer à frente da Arquidiocese de Porto Alegre (1961-1981)

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to reconstruct the period in which Dom Vicente Scherer led the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, RS - 1961 to 1981 - from the analysis of the positions he took on issues such as Catholic moral theology and Communism Liberation, the relations between Church and State and the Renewal of the Catholic Church. We also use as a source of his own articles published in Bulletin Unitas - the official communication of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre - as well as some numbers of the Journal Ecclesiastical Brazilian Voices Magazine and See Magazine. From the use of the concepts of "strategy" (Bourdieu, 1990) and "discretion" (Rosental, 1998), seeks to relativize those consecrated both historiographical visions about the role of Don Vicente ahead of the Archdiocese, as about the positions they took on the profound social and cultural changes of the period.