The article discusses the functioning of the Subvention Organization created by the President GetúlioVargas government through the August 1931's Decree n.20.351. It analyses factors and conditions that made such a legal mechanism to contribute to a more open and consolidated alliance between the State and the Catholic church by means of charityoriented actions, modality seen as the core of interdependence between the two organisations. In conclusion, it questions the fluidity among public and private matters as well as the limits and weaknesses of the Brazilian society laicization process
charity; politics; Catholic church; Getúlio Vargas; government; subvention
