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