Sobre as razões da inexistência de uma questão religiosa aquando do 25 de abril de 1974: alguns aspetos da ação de António Ribeiro, Cardeal Patriarca de Lisboa

More than 40 years after the Revolution of April 25, it is urgent to look at this moment and try to understand the dynamics of the moment and why there was no significant tension between the governments resulting from this revolutionary movement and the Catholic Church. Specifically, in this text we analyze some texts of the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, António Ribeiro, perceiving how the central structure of the Catholic Church prepared the social interaction with the social issues raised by the revolution. In fact, prior to the revolution, Antonio Ribeiro already raised some of the issues that would later be central to the revolutionary movement, as well as being in consonance with the revolutionary movement in some of his homilies and letters immediately after the revolution.