others, the future Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva. One of the representatives of Brazil at the Second Vatican Council, with the Archbishop Hélder Câmara, he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Christian Democracy. From 1967 to 1972 he was a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He was professor of Sociology at the Normal school of Rio, of Political economy at the Faculty of Law and Brazilian literature at the University of Brazil and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, then rector of the University of the Federal District and president of the Center Dom Vital between 1928 and 1968. He was also a member of the Conselho Nacional de Educação. Lima lived in France, lectured on "Brazilian civilization" to the Sorbonne, and in the United States in the early 1950s. Under the Brazilian military government (1964–85), he strongly criticized censorship. Works Estudos — Segunda série (1927) Política (1932) Idade, sexo e tempo (1938) Elementos de ação católica (1938) Mitos de nosso tempo (1943) O problema do trabalho (1946) Meditações sobre o mundo interior (1953) O existencialismo e outros mitos de nosso tempo (1951) O gigantismo econômico (1962) O humanismo ameaçado (1965) Os direitos do homem e o homem sem direitos (1975) Revolução Suicida (1977) Tudo é mistério (1983) References External links . Alceu Amoroso Lima recorded at the Library of Congress for the Hispanic Division’s audio literary archive on Oct. 10, 1976 Brazilian literary critics Brazilian essayists Brazilian journalists Brazilian Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism 1893 births 1983 deaths People from Petrópolis Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro faculty 20th-century essayists 20th-century journalists