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.
Roman Curia • Canonisation • Merry del Val • Pope Benedict XV • John Paul II • Pope Francis • Ratisbonne • World War 1 • Identity • Islam • Papacy • Pius XI • Good Friday Prayer • Holiness • Catholic Church • Second Vatican Council • Reform • Church and Modernity • Freedom of conscience • New Evangelization • Concile Vatican II • Modernization • Pius X • Liturgical reform • Catholic antisemitism • Globalisation • Benedict XVI • Modern culture and catholic Church • John XXIII • Catholic intransigentism • Tyrrell • Racial Laws • Renewal • Jewish perfidy • Preaching • Loisy • Benedict XV • Secularization • Modernity • Vatican Radio • Europe • Paul VI • Pius XII • Consistorial Congregation • Modernism • Vatican Archives • New Evangelisation • History • Roman Catholic Church • Nationalism • Late modernity