ABSTRACT
This research has the objective of reflecting on catholic pedagogical practice as structural element in the social and space process of organization of the migrant who arrived at the beginning of years 1950 in the Colônia Agrícola de Dourados , focusing the analysis of the performance of the catholic church in this region, specifically its agents - the priests, based on a look of the history that refutes the generalization of the social processes conceived by estimated external theoreticians to the studied context.