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