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Na esteira da etimologia do termo “universidade”, o qual, na sua raiz linguística,
significa compreender melhor o universo, não poderei deixar de referenciar que, no
mundo do meu desempenho profissional, a figura António Augusto de Castro Meireles
era assaz vezes referenciada como modelar, sentindo-se, todavia, a necessidade de um
contributo científico que pudesse tirar o véu do desconhecimento ainda estendido sobre
a sua vasta obra, no âmbito da Primeira República. No período histórico em que
Meireles exerceu o seu ministério de eclesiástico várias realidades se cruzaram na sua
acção: laicidade do Estado, resistência à perda de direitos da Igreja, visibilidade da
Igreja pela participação política e presença nos media, defesa dos valores cristãos no
ensino particular, participação democrática da Igreja na esfera pública.
Em Meireles veremos a dificuldade de se encontrar uma fronteira delimitadora
entre o político e o eclesiástico. Campos porosos, poderíamos afirmar, suscitadores da
sempre actual questão: até onde poderá ir a intervenção da Igreja na esfera pública?
Meireles, após a investigação desenvolvida na dissertação em apreço, afigura-se
como um caso de estudo paradigmático na arte de tingir a esfera social com os matizes
do cristianismo, um perito na comunicação herdada de Leão de XIII, denominada de
ralliement.
Following the etymology of the word “University”, which in its linguistic root means a better understanding of the Universe, I have to point out, that in my professional career, the figure of António Augusto de Castro Meireles was often taken as a model, feeling however the need of a scientific contribution that could reveal what is still unknown about his vast work, during the First Republic. In the historical Period in which Meireles operated his Ecclesiastic ministry many realities crisscrossed his action: the laicity of the State, the Church’s resistance to loss of its rights, the visibility of the Church in the political sphere and its presence in the media, the defence of the christian values in the private school, the democratic role of the Church in the public sphere. In Meireles we will see the difficulty of finding a frontier between the political and the ecclesiastic. We could say that these touching realities bring up the same actual question: how far can the church intervene in the public sphere? Meireles, in the research develloped in this work, comes out as a paradigmatic key study in the art of tainting the social sphere with the hues of Christyanity, an expert in comunication inherited from Leon XIII, called ralliement.
Following the etymology of the word “University”, which in its linguistic root means a better understanding of the Universe, I have to point out, that in my professional career, the figure of António Augusto de Castro Meireles was often taken as a model, feeling however the need of a scientific contribution that could reveal what is still unknown about his vast work, during the First Republic. In the historical Period in which Meireles operated his Ecclesiastic ministry many realities crisscrossed his action: the laicity of the State, the Church’s resistance to loss of its rights, the visibility of the Church in the political sphere and its presence in the media, the defence of the christian values in the private school, the democratic role of the Church in the public sphere. In Meireles we will see the difficulty of finding a frontier between the political and the ecclesiastic. We could say that these touching realities bring up the same actual question: how far can the church intervene in the public sphere? Meireles, in the research develloped in this work, comes out as a paradigmatic key study in the art of tainting the social sphere with the hues of Christyanity, an expert in comunication inherited from Leon XIII, called ralliement.
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Laicismo Ralliement Boa imprensa Esfera pública Ensino religioso Opinião pública Visibilidade Laicity Good press Public sphere Religious teaching Public opinion Visibility