A Igreja colocada na cruz

as caravanas da anistia e o caso do padre Joseph Comblin

Abstract

60 years after the 1964 coup, we are still experiencing the debate about memory, justice and reparation for those persecuted during the repression that took place in Brazil for two decades. With redemocratization, we will see reparation actions in the context of the so-called Transitional Justice in the following decades. Our research problematizes the aforementioned context from the Amnesty Caravans, in particular, the case of Father J. Comblin. The episode in question allows us to understand the context of the military dictatorship in Brazil from the idea of ​​past-present, conceptualized by Dosse as contemporaneity of the non-contemporary. Therefore, develop an understanding of this period as an unfinished process, perceiving the tensions, practices and discourses that feed on its context in a permanent past-present relationship. To analyze this permanent process of updating based on Transitional Justice, we rely on Rousso's theoretical assumptions, for whom memory is the presence of the past – History that does not pass away.