The Catholic Church and the Movement of Recatolization at the beginning of the XX century

Abstract

Our text discusses the Catholic Church in the political context of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period the debates against the laity of the state take force. The Catholic Church mobilized lay intellectuals to lead the fight against growing anticlericalism and communism. Our discussion involves the recatolization movement in Brazil, the crisis of the 1920s, the rise of Vargas to power and culminating with the communist Levantes of 1935. It was in this turbulent context that the Catholic Church managed to mobilize its intellectual believers to combat anticlericalism and communism.