When the Vatican disowned Bishop Carlos Duarte.

In issue 2 of the magazine Luta, which was edited by Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, an article was published on the back cover defending himself against one of the first attacks by the Roman Catholic Church since the former Bishop of Maura decided to separate from the Vatican. Although the note does not bear the form of the founder of the National Catholic Churches, it occupies a privileged space, almost editorial-like.

"A captious papal decree "1 is the title in which he responds to decrees from Rome warning about the invalidity of the ordinations being carried out by Duarte Costa published in July of the same year in several important media2. The magazine tried to cast doubt on the validity of the new vocations, thereby interrupting the apostolic succession that had been handed down from St. Peter by the ordination of Jesus himself.

The magazine questions that if the ordinations of the brand new Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Apostolic Church (ICAB) were not valid, the same would be happening with the Eastern Christian Churches, the Veterocatholics, Orthodox and other branches into which the followers of Christ have diversified. The note recalls that even the Vatican admitted (and taught) the validity of the baptisms or sacraments of apostate priests. What prompted the Roman authorities to disregard this new variant?

Recovering the discussion, Luta argues that an ordination according to the Roman ritual was valid not only if it was administered by a bishop (as was the case with Duarte Costa) but also had to respect the form and matter of the ritual and represent the intention of the containing Church. All the initial ordinations of the ICAB, even if outside Rome (like those of so many other Churches) respected this. The Vatican even sent spies into the ceremonies to discover any liturgical errors that would allow them to be disregarded, but they found no flaws3.

The response to the complex papal decrees were answered in simple language by the now Bishop of Rio de Janeiro of the Brazilian Church so that the clarification could be understood by the Christian people, even those who had no great erudition, but who did receive his media bombardment to discredit the new Christian construction. The Roman Pope Pius XII was the conservative Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli who, in the heat of the Second World War, had launched an aggressive campaign to bring the Church of Rome into line with the United States, seeing in every grassroots movement the danger of communism.