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dc.identifier	ECF_article_10422
dc.title	Looking for Traces of the Ecumenical Question in the relationes ad limina of the German Bishops (1948-58)
dc.contributor.author	Marotta Saretta
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/journal-of-modern-and-contemporary-christianity/2022/2/looking-for-traces-of-the-ecumenical-question-in-t/
dc.description.abstract	A historiographical hypothesis ascribed the Holy See’s first post-war pronouncement on ecumenism (5 June 1948) to information gathered during ad limina visits of German bishops that year. This article aims to verify it. ‘Case studies’ have therefore been chosen from among the dioceses most involved in the ‘Una-Sancta-Arbeit’. What emerges, in particular, is the urgency of the refugee problem and the practice of the simultaneum, i.e., the sharing of churches between denominations. This analysis will also help to verify whether and how the ‘literary genre’ of relationes can be used as a source in the field of the history of Catholic ecumenism.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoMaCC
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Issue 2 \| October 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2022-09-28
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-08-30
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-6046
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/JoMaCC/2785-6046/2022/02/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ecumenism
dc.subject	German refugees
dc.subject	Holy Office
dc.subject	Simultaneum
dc.subject	Una Sancta Arbeit
dc.subject	Vertriebene

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Looking for Traces of the Ecumenical Question in the relationes ad limina of the German Bishops (1948-58)

Saretta Marotta Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

A historiographical hypothesis ascribed the Holy See’s first post-war pronouncement on ecumenism (5 June 1948) to information gathered during ad limina visits of German bishops that year. This article aims to verify it. ‘Case studies’ have therefore been chosen from among the dioceses most involved in the ‘Una-Sancta-Arbeit’. What emerges, in particular, is the urgency of the refugee problem and the practice of the simultaneum, i.e., the sharing of churches between denominations. This analysis will also help to verify whether and how the ‘literary genre’ of relationes can be used as a source in the field of the history of Catholic ecumenism.

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Dec. 13, 2022

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Sept. 28, 2022

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Aug. 30, 2022

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Keywords: Holy Office • Vertriebene • Ecumenism • Una Sancta Arbeit • Simultaneum • German refugees

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