By Gerd-Rainer Horn
Western ecu Liberation Theology is the 1st finished survey of the advance of a special, innovative variation of Catholicism in twentieth-century Western Europe. This Left Catholicism served to put the foundation for the next occasions and evolutions linked to Vatican II. in the beginning rising in the barriers of Catholic motion, fuelled via the becoming energy and self-confidence of the Catholic laity, a sequence of demanding situations to got knowledge and an array of novel experiments have been introduced in a variety of corners of Western Europe. the instant of liberation from Nazi profession and global battle in 1944/45 grew to become out to be the highpoint of those confident paradigm shifts. focusing on interrelated advancements in theology, Catholic politics and apostolic social motion, Gerd-Rainer Horn integrates facts from Italian, French and Belgian nationwide contexts. Drawing on his study in over twenty files among Leuven and Rome, he highlights the position of corporations, social pursuits, and highbrow tendencies. The pivotal contributions of key people are assessed, from theologians resembling Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel Mounier, to the millenarian activist clergymen, Don Zeno Saltini and Don Primo Mazzolari. In end Horn means that first-wave Western eu Left Catholicism served as an suggestion - and constituted a prototype - for next 3rd global Liberation Theology.
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This article was republished in toto with the title ‘Il dibattito storiografiche sull’Azione Cattolica del tempo di Pio XI e di Pio XII (1922–1958)’, in Casella, L’Azione Cattolica, 523–53. All citations will, however, refer to the original publication in Dizionario. 87 42 Catholic Action earlier on in this chapter, the rise to power of Mussolini played a catalytic role. When the Catholic Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI) was outlawed by the fascist state, Pope Pius XI, powerless to avoid this move, recognized that he would now have to rely primarily upon other Catholic organizations to effect some influence over Italian affairs.
Vidler, A Century of Social Catholicism 1820–1920 (London: SPCK, 1964), and Paul Misner, Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industrialisation to the First World War (New York: Crossroad, 1991). 69 36 Catholic Action dissensions soon began to tear apart the Opera. Before long, serious differences within Catholic opinion with regard to the labour question shattered the veneer of Catholic unity. Earlier on mention was made of the case of the iconoclastic Flemish Father Daens, who eventually fell foul of the Belgian and Vatican hierarchy.
E. the ‘politics of political parties, the politics of the day, the politics of the moment’. The latter—grande politica—by contrast referred to the ‘ “politics of the common good”, denoting those efforts designed to “procure and preserve those goods which belong to everyone and which should be provided to everyone”: “the sanctity of the family, the sanctity of education, the rights of the Church, the rights belonging to an individual 88 Moro, ‘Azione Cattolica’, 184. ” ’ 89 Pius XI thus left sufficient space for a certain type of political action to continue under Catholic Action auspices.
