Verso la Conciliazione: il ruolo del pontificato di Benedetto XV
Towards the Lateran Treaty. The role of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XV · The pontificate of Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) has long been underestimated by scholars. However, it must be considered a key pontificate in the recent history of the Catholic Church. Above all, it constituted a preparato...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2023
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Il diritto ecclesiastico
Year: 2023, Volume: 134, Issue: 4, Pages: 743-772 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lateran treaties
/ Benedikt, XV., Pope 1854-1922
/ Roman question
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| IxTheo Classification: | SB Catholic Church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Lateran Treaty
B Holy See B Kingdom of Italy B Benedict XV B History of the Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | Towards the Lateran Treaty. The role of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XV · The pontificate of Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) has long been underestimated by scholars. However, it must be considered a key pontificate in the recent history of the Catholic Church. Above all, it constituted a preparatory and influential moment for the Lateran Treaty of 1929. Indeed, Benedict XV came one step closer to being the protagonist of the historic conciliation between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy. The Pope who, after the decades of bitter conflict between the ‘two Romes’ following the events of Italian unification, had played a decisive role in resolving the Roman Question, guaranteeing the Holy See the return of government over a territory, albeit a small one (and, consequently, the right to be recognized in its international identity, i.e. as a subject endowed with independence and freedom iure proprio), also allowing Catholics to fully integrate into Italian society after decades of forced marginalization from public life. As we know, history tells a different truth. Yet, by reconstructing and critically re-examining the pontificate of Benedict XV on the basis of new evidence and the different possible interpretations deriving from existing information, it is possible to offer a partially different reading of the events of the period, which, without altering the ‘official history’, nonetheless allows us to re-evaluate these events, recognizing the rightful merit of Benedict XV’s contribution with respect to the settlement of the Roman question. Through an imaginary game of sliding doors, the essay examines the events of the years of Benedict XV’s pontificate, reconstructing the Pope’s efforts to reach an ‘acceptable solution’ to the Roman question during and at the end of the First World War, already a decade before the Lateran Treaty of 1929. 1. Sliding doors : la storia che non c’è. Benedetto XV e la ‘Conciliazione mancata’. 2. “Réddite quae sunt Caésaris Caésari”. Il pontificato benedettino come momento propedeutico della Conciliazione del 1929. 3. Benedetto XV e Gasparri. 4. L’azione della Sede Apostolica per la soluzione della questione romana durante il pontificato benedettino. 5. La svolta conciliatorista e l’opzione per la soluzione ‘mini-territoriale’. 6. I passi concreti in Vaticano e la progressiva elaborazione dei punti « che si debbono tener presenti per determinare il quid agendum ». 7. La posizione italiana, tra persistenti chiusure di principio e cauta disponibilità nei riguardi della ipotesi di una possibile rivisitazione della legislazione ecclesiastica post-risorgimentale. 8. La ‘Conciliazione mancata’. I preliminari di intesa Cerretti-Orlando del 1° giugno 1919 e l’assenza di seguito degli stessi. 9. La ‘araba fenice’ della Conciliazione : la genesi della politica concordataria con il Regno d’Italia. 10. L’eredità di Benedetto XV. Il pontificato benedettino come momento di svolta nella storia della Chiesa del xx secolo. |
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| ISSN: | 2035-3545 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Il diritto ecclesiastico
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.19272/202330804002 |