A seara de Deus: a formação dos Missionários Claretianos pré e pós-Vaticano II

Abstract

This paper will examine the formation Catholic sacerdotal comparing the period that preceding and following the Second Vatican Council, specifically the effects of changes in the educational process for the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart Mary, known as Claretianos Missionaries. The Council of Trent, held in the sixteenth century, built an ideal-type of priest that lasted unchanged over nearly four hundred years. During this long period, the priests were trained in seminaries closed and they did not have contacts with the "secular world". Now with the Vatican II the model is broken in favor of another kind of idea, where the elders should work closer to their faithful. The formative system is transformed and the close ancients institutions in open seminaries where the future priests have freedom to work together to community. Rather than analyze these two formatives patterns, we arise historical line of the foundation of the Claretianas Congregation and how it has adapted over the years to change the seminars as well as the positive and negative consequences from this reformed process. Having conscience that we will comment a subject that is the backbone of the Catholic Church, we will use theoretical reference of the sociology and history to obtain better comprehension of the delicate and controversial formative process inside of the seminaries