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AutoreJoblin Joseph
TitoloChristianisme et soci?t? civile
RivistaGregorianum
Annata96
Fasc.3
Anno2015
Pagine571-593
Campo TematicoInterreligiositą e Interculturalitą
Parole Chiave
Abstract The Church?s relations to civil society have been studied in the West for almost two millennia under what has usually been called ?Church-State? relations; their respective leaders were considered as solely in charge of cooperating to insure public order. Granted the irreversible globalization of international life, the Church must find its place in a society that has become global and urges democratic principles. This has required a lengthy re-examination. Benedict XV and Pius XI made way for it, the former in 1919 by asking for a revision of the modes and aims of missionary activity, the latter in 1926 by speaking of political charity. This movement received a new impulse from Pius XII, when he evoked democracy (1944), and then from Vatican II and from Paul VI in Ecclesiam suam (1964). Pope Francis? call for a ?mobilization? of good will when received the UN Secretary General is an outcome of that movement.
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