Os Jesuítas e a «Ideia Republicana» em Portugal

Abstract

This article shows that the relationship between the Jesuits and the «republican idea» was rather peaceful for both parties, but was also very controversial within the Church itself. During the time of the Republic, in Portugal, and in the years leading up to it, the antijesuitism was a way to combat the power of the Jesuits. The republicans are fighting for solutions to the various political and social future of the country as opposed to constitutional monarchy. The use of ideological antijesuitism flag had been used very early in the propagandists manifests of the Republican Portuguese Party. However, some Jesuits were politically involved, partisand catholicism. Some members of the Company of Jesus had been in fact committed to the creation of the Nationalist Party in 1903 as the catholic party, believing that the agglutination of the catholic vote in one party to defend the values of the Church was the best solution to counter the anticlerical wave that was felt in political and cultural country. This work also aims to show that, during the Republic, was always concerned the problem of the involvement of clergy and catholics in general with partisan politics, showing the controversial relationship between the Jesuits and the «republican idea».