Even after more than 50 years, May of 1968 still fi gures as a politicalcultural event which endures. The taking of the word raises expectations of a transformation in both society and Christian Churches that is in opposition to the neoliberal/conservative turn established in the 70 s which currently asserts itself as normative. In light of this, Michel de Certeau s writings, published in the heat of the event, are a privileged source of interpretation. Certeau as historian, theologian, and Jesuit, think that May 68th was a cultural revolution and, even more, a revolution of believing capable of causing gaps of meaning and action. The fi rst part of this study revisits the reading of May 68th proposed by Certeau: the crisis of representations in contemporary imagination; the taking of the word through intersubjectivity and daily life; mystique as a metaphor of what was lived in 68th. The second part, still in dialogue with the French Jesuit, explores the interrelationship of May 68th with Catholicism, specifi cally as to what emerged in Latin America from the Conference of Medellín (1968). The second part concludes by showing the relevance and timeliness of Certeau s interpretation for understanding many taking the word events that occurred in recent years from the days of June 2013 in Brazil to the demonstrations made in Chile and Bolivia in 2019.