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