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 NationalismChurch and ModernityPope FrancisJohn XXIIISecularizationPope Benedict XVModern culture and catholic ChurchLate modernityVatican ArchivesHolinessLoisyModernityGood Friday PrayerCanonisationTyrrellBenedict XVIEuropeFreedom of conscienceCatholic ChurchVatican RadioLiturgical reformConsistorial CongregationNew EvangelisationWorld War 1RenewalRoman CuriaPapacySecond Vatican CouncilPreachingRatisbonneCatholic intransigentismConcile Vatican IIModernizationCatholic antisemitismPius XIIIslamHistoryPius XIRacial LawsIdentityNew EvangelizationMerry del ValReformBenedict XVModernismJewish perfidyPaul VIGlobalisationRoman Catholic ChurchJohn Paul IIPius 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 fr, en