The history of the Second Vatican Council and the history of the policy of openness towards the East-Central European Communist countries, that is, the so called Vatican “Ostpolitik,” were looked at ...until now as two separate topics of research. The virtue of András Fejérdy’s work is to demonstrate, at the end of a thorough-going study through various available archives (first of all of the party and state, but also ecclesiastical ones), that it is not like that, but in reality the two topics are closely linked. Analyzing the history of the Hungarian presence at Vatican II in the context of the Hungarian Church policy and the evolution of the relations between the Holy See and Hungary, the book reveals that in consequence of the interests of the Holy See and the Hungarian party-state related to the Council—from the perspective of Hungary—Vatican II was not primarily an ecclesial event, but it remained closely joined to the negotiations between the Holy See and Hungary. During the Council, Hungary became the experimental laboratory of the Vatican’s new eastern policy.
Old Saint Peter's, Rome McKitterick, Rosamond; Osborne, John; Richardson, Carol M ...
11/2013
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St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today ...is a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance destruction, in its historical context. An international team of historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with the city of Rome.
One of the greatest ironies of the history of Soviet rule is that,
for an officially atheistic state, those in the political police
and in the Politburo devoted an enormous amount of time and
...attention to the question of religion. The Soviet government's
policies toward religious institutions in the USSR, and toward
religious institutions in the non-Communist world, reflected this,
especially when it came to the Vatican and Catholic Churches, both
the Latin and Byzantine Rite, in Soviet territory. The KGB and
the Vatican consists of the transcripts of KGB records
concerning the policies of the Soviet secret police towards the
Vatican and the Catholic Church in the Communist world, transcripts
provided by KGB archivist and defector Vasili Mitrokhin, from the
Second Vatican Council to the election of John Paul II. Among the
topics covered include how the Soviet regime viewed the efforts of
John XXIII and Paul VI of reaching out to eastern side of the Iron
Curtain, the experience of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuanian
Soviet Socialist Republic and the underground Greek Catholic Church
in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the religious
underground in the key cities of Leningrad and Moscow, and finally
the election of John Paul II and its effect on the tumultuous
events in Poland in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This valuable
primary source collection also contains a historical introduction
written by the translator, Sean Brennan, a professor of History at
the University of Scranton.
For centuries, Romania and the Romanians have been the “in-between”. Geographical as well as political situated between the Latin occident and the Byzantine orient, Romanians lived intertwined with ...Hungarians, German Saxons, Szeklers, Armenians, Jews, Tartars, Gypsies, and others as the guardians of communication channels between worlds and cultures. Ioan-Aurel Pop demonstrates the adaptable nature of the southeast European “borderlands”, while underlining a set of reoccurring traits like religion and/or confession, real and/or imagined “national” identities. The backbone of his studies is political: Starting with the rise of the Romanians in late medieval times he follows their steady and eventually abrupt downfall. Focusing on late medieval and early modern Church and State matters he describes the emerging of a language bound identity “in between” and in close connection to a selective revival of Antiquity. Pop provides insights into a succession of falls and rises that formed the Romanian identity and connected them to the modern divergent world.
Ioan-Aurel Pop is Professor of Medieval History at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, and the President of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest. His research focuses on Church and State in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe, on late medieval crusading and on humanism.
Giuliana Chamedes offers the first comprehensive history of the Vatican's efforts to defeat the forces of secular liberalism and communism through international law, cultural diplomacy, and a ...marriage of convenience with authoritarian and right-wing rulers.
This unprecedented comparison of the three most recent Catholic councils traverses more than 450 years and examines the church's most pressing and consistent concerns—issues of purpose, power, and ...relevance. John O'Malley addresses key questions councils raised. Who was in charge of the church? And what difference did the councils make?
How, a mere generation after Vatican Council II initiated the biggest reform since the Reformation, can the Catholic Church be in such deep trouble? The question resonates through this new book by ...Andrew Greeley, the most recognized, respected, and influential commentator on American Catholic life. A timely and much-needed review of forty years of Church history,The Catholic Revolutionoffers a genuinely new interpretation of the complex and radical shift in American Catholic attitudes since the second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Drawing on a wealth of data collected over the last thirty years, Greeley points to a rift between the higher and lower orders in the Church that began in the wake of Vatican Council II-when bishops, euphoric in their (temporary) freedom from the obstructions of the Roman Curia, introduced modest changes that nonetheless proved too much for still-rigid structures of Catholicism: the "new wine" burst the "old wineskins." As the Church leadership tried to reimpose the old order, clergy and the laity, newly persuaded that "unchangeable" Catholicism could in fact change, began to make their own reforms, sweeping away the old "rules" that no longer made sense. The revolution that Greeley describes brought about changes that continue to reverberate-in a chasm between leadership and laity, and in a whole generation of Catholics who have become Catholic on their own terms. Coming at a time of crisis and doubt for the Catholic Church, this richly detailed, deeply thoughtful analysis brings light and clarity to the years of turmoil that have shaken the foundations, if not the faith, of American Catholics.
The ‘Vatican Epithalamion’ (BAV Vat. gr. 1851) was recently dated by Peter Schreiner to 1271 or 1272. In this paper, I present an additional argument for his dating by comparing the Epithalamion’s ...zoomorphic initial letters with those found in two other codices datable to the reign of Michael VIII Palaeologus: a Gospelbook (Mount Athos, Iviron Monastery, 5) and a Psalter (Jerusalem, Greek Patriarchal Library, Παναγίου Τάφου 51). This comparison suggests also that zoomorphic ornament functioned at the time as a marker of social status.
El Concilio Vaticano II, asamblea que entre 1962 y 1965 reunió a más de dos mil obispos procedentes de distintas partes del mundo, supuso todo un proceso de reestructuraciones que transformaron la ...perspectiva que la Iglesia católica tenía sobre sí misma y sobre su relación con el mundo contemporáneo. El presente artículo pretende aproximarse a los efectos que el Concilio tuvo en la vida de la Iglesia mexicana durante la época de la primera recepción de las reformas conciliares (1962-1968). Se plantea que, aunque desde el inicio mismo del Concilio hubo en México manifestaciones de adhesión a sus disposiciones, no fue sino hasta 1968 cuando, debido a la confluencia de distintos sucesos, se detonó un mayor interés por renovar a la Iglesia mexicana de conformidad con el espíritu conciliar.
Vatican II Mayunda Mbuinga, Willy-Pierre
2024
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Le Concile Vatican II appartient-il à un passé révolu? Ou fait-il tellement partie de la vie de l’Église que nous ne sommes plus conscients qu’il reste «une boussole fiable» pour nous orienter ...aujourd’hui?Alors que le pape François propose de courageuses réformes et la voie nouvelle de la synodalité, Vatican II refait surface de façon surprenante, offrant les ressources de ses reformulations doctrinales et l’exemple de la responsabilité de ses acteurs. L’ouvrage montre comment la longue histoire où s’inscrit Vatican II, de sa préparation à sa célébration et sa réception, est toujours ouverte. Il nous pousse à valoriser l’héritage conciliaire en fidélité à l’Évangile du Christ et à l’Esprit Saint, pour progresser en Église vers un monde plus fraternel.
