The Catholic Church is characterized by being transnational and transcultural, therefore at the same time in that is an institution that possesses an identity above any cultural diversity it is starting from its recognition that acts, it is also, starting from him that has the intention of converting. Thus, besides the Christian identity, that it hovers above any culture, he/she needs to locate in the national or in the ethnic so that there is the cultural empathy and the Catholic symbols are incorporate.

How do those two processes happen?

We cannot, shortly, to think that before anything else have the construction of being Catholic and later its insert in the world. Thus, we have at the same time, the Catholic faith through its dogmas and canons and its insert in the society where being Catholic builds its identity. It is before this interaction dynamics of being Catholic in the and for the society that the Catholic Church recognizes the cultural diversity.

That moment is very marked with the Concílio Vaticano II, the reorientar attempt its action in the society. In that process she will work with the key symbols of the popular culture as synonym of authenticity - the popular culture will be ennobled in the search of a national identity, answer to the imperialism - and to the own Christianity that abafafa the whole native culture. The recriação of the " native " and its manifestations will be releitura symbols and of a new positioning of the Church before the countries of third world - it was made like this her with Africa, Asia and América Latina and Central.

The enunciation just as - to give the voice those that he/she doesn't have voice went to flag of the Catholic Church used in the decade of seventy and half of eighty to América Latina as answer the military Dictatorships and to ennoble the tradition as synonym of cultural identity - answer given to the colonialism practiced in Africa.

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