Education
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law.
literary critic religious teacher writer
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law.
He adopted the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde in 1919. That came in part through the influence of Jacques Maritain. He was a staunch advocate for press freedom during the period of military dictatorship.
The same year he became leader of Dom Vital Center, founded by Figueiredo and broadcast anti-communist and anti-liberal anti-modernist ideas.
He made his literary criticism under the pseudonym of Tristão de Ataíde, he was also manager of the company Cometa, inherited from his father. Lima also chaired the National Junta of Catholic Action, founded in 1935, until 1945, and founded the Catholic Institute of Advanced Studies in 1932 and the Universidade Santa Úrsula (private) in Rio in 1937.
He, then, made statements tinted with Antisemitism. Alceu Lima was one of the founders of the Christian Democrat Organization of America (ODCA) in 1947, alongside, among others, the future Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva.
He was professor of Sociology at the Normal school of Rio, of Political economy at the Faculty of Law and Brazilian literature at the University of Brazil and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, then rector of the University of the Federal District and president of the Center Dom Vital between 1928 and 1968.
Lima lived in France, lectured on "Brazilian civilization" to the Sorbonne (building), and in the United States in the early 1950s. Under the Brazilian military government (1964-1985), he strongly criticized censorship.
Although he initially had some sympathy for certain aims of Brazilian Integralism he became a strong opponent of authoritarianism in general and Fascism in particular. He was secretary of the Catholic Electoral League, created by the Cardinal Archbishop of Rio Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra to act in the political sphere (without a party) with the approach of elections in 1933. In 1930 Amoroso Lima was close to Brazilian Integralism, the fascist movement of Plínio Salgado.
He parted under the influence of Jacques Maritain, with whom he corresponded. One of the representatives of Brazil at the Second Vatican Council, with the Archbishop Hélder Câmara, he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Christian Democracy.
Influenced by Positivism, he traveled to Paris, but the shock of the First World War led him to get away from it, under the influence of Jackson de Figueiredo, G.K. Chesterton and Jacques Maritain.
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From 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He was also a member of the Conselho Nacional de Educação.
