Centro Dom Vital

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Centro Dom Vital
AbbreviationCDV
FormationMay, 1922
Founder Jackson de Figueiredo
Type Private nonprofit organization
HeadquartersAraújo Porto Alegre street, nº 60, Center
Location
Secretary General
Renato Beneduzi
Key people
 Alceu Amoroso Lima
Website https://centrodomvital.com.br/

Centro Dom Vital (english: Dom Vital Center) is a historical lay Catholic cultural center based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Founded by the lawyer and journalist Jackson de Figueiredo, it played a decisive role in shaping Brazil's 20th-century literary and intellectual landscape by bringing together prominent writers, artists and philosophers, and by promoting the diffusion of the Church's doctrine and social teaching. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The Center's main goals were to catechize and educate laypeople, and to form a conservative, anti-modernist intellectual elite. [5] [6] Its members were crucial in establishing the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. [5]

Meeting held by members. Alceu Amoroso Lima, a prominent lay Catholic leader, is at the far right of the image. Encontro CDV.png
Meeting held by members. Alceu Amoroso Lima, a prominent lay Catholic leader, is at the far right of the image.

It publishes the centenary journal A Ordem (pt) annually.

History

The Center was started by a group of young men led by Jackson de Figueiredo, who had been fostered by the encouragement of Cardinal Dom Sebastião Leme. [7] Among them were politicians and journalists eager to intervene in intellectual and public debate. The year of the Center's formation, 1922, coincided with major cultural and political developments in Brazil, like the holding of the Modern Art Week, the foundation of the Brazilian Communist Party and the Copacabana Fort revolt. [8] Taking a contrary stance toward what they perceived were threats to Tradition and Authority, the members sought to reunite the lay public and young intellectuals in hopes of forming an active Catholic militancy and a vigorous group of intellectuals capable of defending the Church's doctrine.

Notable members and associated people

References

  1. ↑ "Centro Dom Vital: 100 anos de presença – Arquidiocese de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  2. ↑ "Do Centro D Vital a Universidade Catolica, Tania Salem". www.schwartzman.org.br. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  3. ↑ "O Centro Dom Vital e a renovação da Vida Litúrgica no Brasil - Diário do Rio de Janeiro" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2025-01-07. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  4. ↑ Arduini, Guilherme Ramalho (2011-05-23). "Centro Dom Vital e o campo intelectual brasileiro (anos 1930)". Anais dos Simpósios da ABHR (in Portuguese). 12. ISSN   2237-4132.
  5. 1 2 "Do Centro D Vital a Universidade Catolica, Tania Salem". www.schwartzman.org.br. Retrieved 2025-11-18.
  6. ↑ Filho, Pinheiro; Antonio, Fernando (2007). "A invenção da ordem: intelectuais católicos no Brasil". Tempo Social (in Portuguese). 19: 33–49. doi:10.1590/S0103-20702007000100003. ISSN   0103-2070.
  7. ↑ "Centro Dom Vital celebra centenário de fundação – Arquidiocese de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-11-22.
  8. ↑ Junior, Nelson Tomelin; Alambert, Francisco; Silva, Marcos Antonio da (2022-11-04). "Modernismos e Modernidades: Brasil, 1922 (O outro era aqui)". Revista de História (in Portuguese) (181): 1–5. doi:10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2022.203539. ISSN   2316-9141.
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