O discurso anticomunista nas encíclicas papais durante a guerra fria – 1945 a 1991

Abstract

The main objective of this dissertation is the analysis of the anti-communist discourse of papal encyclicals during the Cold War. The historical period of this work is from 1945 to 1990. The corpora are formed by encyclicals from that period. The content of the encyclicals was compared with Public International Law (DIP) in order to establish how they were operationalized by the Catholic Church and its anti-communist ideology. This study will articulate the interpretation of the encyclical letters of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II. In methodology, the method itself was created based on the research of Jean-Michel Adam, from textual linguistics. Faced with the impossibility of using DIP textual genres (conventions, treaties, concordats, pacts), the popes used encyclicals in the fight against communist ideas. The work presented here is an academic first because it proposes to analyze how the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church constructed its ideology during the Cold War against the communist bloc.