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