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The Politicization of the Brazilian Catholic Church: The Catholic Electoral League

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Margaret Todaro Williams
Margaret Todaro Williams*
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Department of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007
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One of the most curious phenomena ever to be recorded in the annals of Latin American church history was a peculiarly Brazilian institution known as the Catholic Electoral League. Lofty in its ideals but confused in their practice, disclaiming political party status yet directly involving the Church in every political campaign of the day, the League functioned between 1932 and 1937 as a political pressure group under the direct auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. It operated on a more national scale than the political parties themselves, which were still basically regional.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , August 1974 , pp. 301 - 325
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Copyright © University of Miami 1974

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