O discurso religioso cristão em análise: a homossexualidade no/pelo catolicismo da Igreja Católica

Abstract

The discussion about religion and homosexuality has always been the subject of diferente opinions, especially in recent decades. To contribute to the debate, this research aims to analyze the senses that are put into operation in the third part of the book “Catechism of the Catholic Church”, which is configured as one of the doctrinal bases of the Roman Catholic Apostolic religion. For this purpose, we rely on the discursive studies proposed by Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi, and this work is anchored in the studies of Eni P. Orlandi, precursor of Discourse Analysis in Brazil. From this theoretical device, we seek to think about how the Catholic Church presents issues related to the LGBTQIAP+ issue and how these are signified in the book. The chosen corpus consists of four excerpts taken from the second section of the third part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The work aims that the questions presented and the results obtained may raise clarifications on the discussion and on the way gender and sexuality issues are treated in the referred book.