Divergences and convergences about the concept of family in the newspaper “O São Paulo”

Abstract

The current national debates about the concept of family has given rise to this article, which highlights the Catholic field, specifically based on the Catholic weekly newspaper O São Paulo - JOSP, official organ of the Archdiocese of São Paulo,the largest one in Brazil. The research identified the convergences and divergences regarding the ideological positions on the concept of family based on the understanding and the interpretation of JOSP publications. The documentary source was analyzed from two different temporal cuts, that of the articles vetoed by the previous censorship of the military dictatorship in the 1970s and that of the publications in 2015, when the subject became an issue on the national agenda. Differences were identified between the themes and the discourses of the articles with regard to gender relations, homoaffective marriage and adoption, among others. However, we identify the same perspective in regard to the advocacy of what is named as the traditional family.