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

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 en, fr

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