Entre a batina e a aliança : das mulheres de padres ao movimento de padres casados no Brasil

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2008

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The study presented herein is aimed at comprehending the formation process of the Married Priests Movement MPC (Movimento de Padres Casados), institutionalised in Brazil during the eighties. For such, the survey was based on the historical consolidation of the clerical celibacy since its establishment in the early medieval period, during the times of the Gregorian Reform (1050-1226), until the 20th Century, when the movement in analysis has begun. Strengthened in the beginning of the Modern Age by the canons of the Council of Trent (1537-1563), ecclesiastic celibacy became the main identifying symbol of the Latin clergy as it sanctified and consolidated the ecclesiastic hierarchy, while justifying its superiority in relation to laity and priests of other religions. From Trent, the sacraments of marriage and of the catholic sacerdotal ordaining started to be consecrated as excluding paths. Concubinage and the marriage of priests were outlawed by the canonical law and the legislation of the Portuguese monarchy until mid-19th Century, this, nevertheless, would not prevent the celibacy law from being constantly violated in secret. When it was first publicly questioned during the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), clerical celibacy was maintained and enforced by the Encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (1967). This has generated a considerable migratory flow of priests who decided to abandon the ecclesiastic ministry to contract matrimony. Laying in the nowhere between priesthood and marriage, married former priests from all over the world started to join efforts in the attempt to preserve the sacramental bonds between them and to fight for shared objectives. In Brazil, the MPC brought together the wishes of thousand of married priests, creating a place for dialogue with Church and society. Through a comprehensive analysis of the main means used to publicise the movement and of interviews with the leaders of MPC, this research endeavoured to comprehend how have the Brazilian former priests established their organisations, which are articulated in many different fronts but always maintain the constant intervention of a strong symbolism associated to the religious imagery. In between the lines of the discussion between MPC and the Catholic Church, tradition and modernity are interpolated either in the defence or in the criticism of celibacy.

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identidades celibacy modernity modernidade catholic church igreja historia identity celibato tradition married priests movement (mpc movimento dos padres casados) movimento de padres casados (mpc) tradição

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