“EL MENSAJERO”, CATHOLICISM AND RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN COSTA RICA (1926-1929)

Abstract

The people who wrote in the newspaper El Mensajero between 1926 to 1929 posed a revision of Catholic dogma, especially in the one the believer must have a personal relationship with God. It was in the criticism of intellectual and political manipulation that the Church promoted - to maintain social control - where they found a strong rejection of the doctrine. Despite the interest of the State about the Costa Rican change or mutate to traditional values to a modern democratic values such as religious tolerance, this did not happen instantly, because it faced the attachment of the Church not to lose its influence in the society.