The Papacy in the Contemporary Age
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abstract
The volume, deepening specific aspects of the popes from Pius X to Francis, offers, overall, a historical reading of the papacy from the early twentieth century to the present. In this time – between uncertainties, resistances, cautious openings – the papacy realised the transition from intransigent Catholicism to dialogue with modernity and its most characteristic cultural, political and social expressions. In this regard, the presence of swings and retractions in the popes of the last decades are also an expression of the troubles that have marked the long and difficult coexistence between papacy, Roman Catholic Church and modernity, until pope Bergoglio’s new guidelines.
Canonisation • Modernization • Church and Modernity • Pope Francis • Europe • Paul VI • Vatican Archives • Second Vatican Council • Freedom of conscience • Renewal • Consistorial Congregation • Benedict XVI • Racial Laws • History • Good Friday Prayer • Benedict XV • Jewish perfidy • World War 1 • Merry del Val • New Evangelization • Modernity • Holiness • Nationalism • Globalisation • Late modernity • Identity • Liturgical reform • Modern culture and catholic Church • Ratisbonne • Catholic intransigentism • New Evangelisation • Concile Vatican II • John Paul II • Pope Benedict XV • Preaching • Pius X • Reform • Pius XI • Modernism • Roman Catholic Church • Secularization • Tyrrell • Vatican Radio • Catholic antisemitism • Loisy • Pius XII • John XXIII • Roman Curia • Papacy • Islam • Catholic Church