Youth, ultramontanism and Catholic education

Abstract

Starting at the modern age the Catholic Church begins to bet on the youth as the social segment capable of making the reformist project become viable and, this way, the education would turn into an effective mechanism to stop modernity’s advancements. Aware of the transformations caused by context of the Modern State’s consolidation, the Catholic Church will try to keep pace with the visible changing process that happened at the cultural and social space, whose reflections will unfold in the educational structure, in the social practices and, above all, in the role played by the young in modern society. In that regard, this article would try to reflect about the policies implemented by the Ultramontane Catholic Church in the construction of a discourse in which the young appears as a depository of the hopes in the sedimentation of values and habits, electing them as the elements capable of preventing the changes and keeping the tradition.