ANOTHER CATHOLICISM

THE BISHOP OF MAURA AND THE BRAZILIAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH

Abstract

The Brazilian popular Catholicism differs significantly from orthodox Roman Catholicism. In the 1940s, a Brazilian Catholic Bishop, Carlos Duarte Costa, takes forward the movement for a national Catholic Church and creates the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, which assumes a more open doctrine in relation to Roman Catholic doctrine. With the motto Free Church in the Free State, the church founded by cleric sought to be the national alternative to unhappy with the Romanization of the Roman Catholic Church. This article will seek to provide the context in which they gave the break and the influences that the new church received both popular Catholicism, like other religions, like Protestantism, spiritualism and even the african-Brazilian religions, through the analysis of journal "the Fight", published as the official organ of the new church since its founding in 1945 until the mid-1960s.