Abstract
This paper focuses on the sense of reconciliation in the political action of Father Cícero Romão Batista. Starting from the theological and philosophical contexts, in which the concept arises, we interpret it, in the light of the social sciences, as a watershed between two nation projects that go through the Brazilian recent history. On the one hand, the exclusionary project, which affirms and reproduces the division, advocated by political elites, liberal intellectuals, and the reforming clergy. On the other, the inclusive project, defended by Father Cícero, for whom, the realization of modernity would depend on the reconciliation between tradition and modernity. The empirical reference base for the argument is the review, in the 2000s, of the process of condemnation of Father Cícero by the Catholic Church. The path followed was that of historical research, where we visited the literature, reinterpreting the theses of some authors of reference who wrote about Father Cícero.
Keywords:
Father Cícero; reconciliation; catholicism; pilgrimage; romanization