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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.

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

Thema codes QRMB1 • QRAX • 3MN • 3MP

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 fr, en

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