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dc.identifier	ECF_article_10556
dc.title	Progressismus gallicus in French and Belgian relationes ad limina from 1947 to 1957
dc.contributor.author	Luciani Patrizia
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/progressismus-gallicus-in-french-and-belgian-relat/
dc.description.abstract	The Church of Pius XII was faced with the major problem of secularisation that accompanied the modernisation of European society. In the post-World War II Catholic world, France and Belgium were pioneers in seeking new pastoral methods that could reach out and involve, in particular, the workers, that social class which was most sensitive to the dynamics of de-Christianisation and religious indifferentism. The relationes ad limina of the period allow us to reconstruct a lively and innovative ecclesial landscape, within which the experience of worker priests was the best-known and most debated pastoral response, but not the only one. This article describes this tendency towards pastoral experimentation in France and Belgium between 1947 and 1957, at a time when Pius XII seemed to view Progressismus gallicus with fear and concern, but also with some hope.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoMaCC
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Issue 2 \| October 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2022-11-10
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-09-14
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/2785-6046/2022/02/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Belgium Magdeleine Hutin
dc.subject	France
dc.subject	Petites Soeurs de Jesus
dc.subject	Pius XII
dc.subject	Progressive Catholicism
dc.subject	Relationes ad limina
dc.subject	Secularism
dc.subject	Worker priests

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Progressismus gallicus in French and Belgian relationes ad limina from 1947 to 1957

Patrizia Luciani Independent scholar

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abstract

The Church of Pius XII was faced with the major problem of secularisation that accompanied the modernisation of European society. In the post-World War II Catholic world, France and Belgium were pioneers in seeking new pastoral methods that could reach out and involve, in particular, the workers, that social class which was most sensitive to the dynamics of de-Christianisation and religious indifferentism. The relationes ad limina of the period allow us to reconstruct a lively and innovative ecclesial landscape, within which the experience of worker priests was the best-known and most debated pastoral response, but not the only one. This article describes this tendency towards pastoral experimentation in France and Belgium between 1947 and 1957, at a time when Pius XII seemed to view Progressismus gallicus with fear and concern, but also with some hope.

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Dec. 16, 2022

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Nov. 10, 2022

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Sept. 14, 2022

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Keywords: Worker priests • France • Petites Soeurs de Jesus • Progressive Catholicism • Relationes ad limina • Secularism • Belgium Magdeleine Hutin • Pius XII

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