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

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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