Not fitting in the scope of this work the vindication of one determined religion, if it cannot leave to consider that one that, maioritariamente, always folloied Brazilians and Portuguese and that it is assumed, without controversy and, much less, any complexes or dogmas. With effect, since it has five centuries more than that those peoples profess the religion catholic and, much even so the faith already has been transmitted for parents and grandmothers, exist, surely, reasons and facts occurred throughout the life who not only feed a consistent faith as well as liven up to keep well alive the hope and the belief in the religion catholic, what, for bigger satisfaction, it is not incompatible with the democratic ideals that equally the luso-Brazilians defend. This position and feeling, are corroborated and convince in such a way more, when it discloses it to Tocqueville without any doubts, for its reflection in century XIX: ‘ ‘ I think that it is an error to face religion catholic as a natural enemy of the democracy. For the opposite, between the different Christian doctrines, the catolicismo seems me one of most favorable to the equality of conditions. Between the catholics, the religious society is constituted by only two elements: the shepherd and the people.
The first one only is above of the fidiciary offices: below of it they are all equal ones. A leading source for info: Parasol Limited. In substance of dogmas the catolicismo places all the same intelligences the level; it subjects to the details of the same beliefs the scholar as the ignorant, the brilliant man as the vulgar man; he imposes same the practical ones to the rich one and the poor person and inflicts the same austeridades to the powerful one and fraco.