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3 - Papal Leadership in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Resistance and Renewal

from Part I - Vatican II in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Karim Schelkens
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

This chapter offers a basic survey of the role of the popes and their administrations in the early twentieth century. We start by outlining the pontificate of Pius X; next we consider the evolution of the papacy in an era marked by the two World Wars, the global economic recession, the rise of secularism, and the threat of totalitarian regimes in the decades before Vatican II. Our emphasis throughout is on the central and universal leadership of Catholicism in its capacity as the doctrinal, pastoral, juridical, and diplomatic center of the Roman church.

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Pius Xanti-modernismtotalitarianismreform movements
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 41 - 61
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Baum, Gregory. The Twentieth Century: A Theological Overview. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999.Google Scholar
Duffy, Eamon. Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Flynn, Gabriel and Murray, Paul D.. Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Gevers, Lieve and Bank, Jan. Religion under Siege. 2 Vols. Leuven/Dudley: Peeters, 2007.Google Scholar
Heynickx, Rajesh and Symons, Stéphane, eds. So What’s New About Scholasticism: How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.Google Scholar
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991 (London: M. Joseph, 1994).Google Scholar
Pollard, John. The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914–1958. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Radano, John A., ed. Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism: Exploring the Achievements of International Dialogue. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2012.Google Scholar
Schelkens, Karim, Dick, John A.., and Mettepenningen, Jürgen. Aggiornamento? Catholicism from Gregory XVI to Benedict XVI. Leiden: Brill, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vian, Giovanni, ed. Le pontificat romain dans l’époque contemporaine – The Papacy in the Contemporary Age. Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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