Religious leadership in Portugal between dictatorship and democracy. António Ribeiro: a patriarch in times of rupture

Abstract

Investigating the thought of D. António Ribeiro as the patriarch of Lisbon between Marcellism and PREC, we sought to understand the political dynamism that the religious assumes in the process of affirmation of the Portuguese democratic regime. At the same time, we tried to understand the preponderance of Cardinal Ribeiro’s ecclesiastical prevailing in a political and ecclesial context. This essay assumes the religious, and this religious leadership in particular, as a compass in understanding the political rupture and its consequences.