Studi di storia

The Papacy in the Contemporary Age

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  • Giovanni Vian - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-239-0 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-239-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-256-7 | Published June 6, 2018 | Language en, fr

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