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