At the end of the1920s and in the decades of 1930s, many important battles were taking place in Brazil. Not only did the politic field go through a structural reorganization process, education also became target of public interest which led to heated debates. Our educators - who were intellectuals from diverse fields in those periods - they took upon themselves the responsibility of leading the discussion about the modern, the new, the necessary and they positioned themselves according to their convictions, to divulge and to defend better their way of thinking about education and its role in the society. Two groups stood out in this process: Catholics and Pioneers. Both believed in education as a regenerating element and as of fundamental importance in the construction of a national identity and both elected the printed matter as a place for debate to defend their premises founded by New School philosophy. The intellectuals qualified as Catholics constituted a complex and heterogeneous group, united by common ideas. In this perspective, this work aims at understand how these intellectuals appropriated the new educational doctrine within their faith modes and how they translated in their discourse their view of the world and the educational model they defended, perceiving which were the resemblances and nuances among their members and how they appear in pedagogical debate published in their magazines.