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Il saggio esamina le complesse relazioni tra Turchia ed Europa negli ultimi trenta anni. Si sottolinea la crescente distanza tra questi due soggetti, le profonde trasmormazioni della Turchia, ma anche la rilevanza di un rapporto con l'Europa molto problematico ma comunque necessario., The essay examines the complex relations between Türkiye and Europe over the last thirty years. The growing distance between these two subjects is underlined, the profound transformations of Turkey, but also the relevance of a very problematic but nevertheless necessary relationship with Europe.

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Il libro ricostruisce i molteplici sguardi sulla città e sul problema abitativo nell’Italia del Nord-Ovest tra gli anni Cinquanta e Settanta: proprio in questo periodo la pressione demografica esercitata dai flussi migratori su Milano, Torino e Genova, i tre principali centri industriali dell’area, alimentò un ricco dibattito sulle condizioni di vita urbane anzitutto per i risvolti sociali della questione edilizia, sollecitando gli attori pubblici e privati a individuare possibili soluzioni politiche. Furono molti i soggetti a vario titolo coinvolti nella denuncia della presenza di case malsane e precarie e nell’elaborazione di norme e di piani – istituzioni ed enti nazionali e locali, partiti, sindacati, movimenti, studiosi, gruppi di abitanti, intellettuali, ecc. – e l’esame approfondito delle loro prospettive permette di misurare il grado di percezione del problema tra le forze politiche e nell’opinione pubblica, di analizzare il tipo di mobilitazione nata intorno a questi temi e di interpretare le risposte fornite dal decisore pubblico.

Mais qu’est-ce que l’on entend par citoyenneté ? Au cours des siècles ce terme a eu pour fonction de définir son domaine d’application à des groupes d’individus bien distincts, alors qu’aujourd’hui, après un long parcours historique sujet à des évolutions et ruptures multiples, le même mot se distingue par une polysémie qui est désormais difficile à définir et qui, dans certains de ses emplois, a tendance à proposer une acception qui est tout-à-fait universelle. Dans cette trame complexe, les excursus historiques sont fondamentaux et mettent en évidence un aspect important et spécifique de tout le processus et par conséquent que la citoyenneté s’est développée de façon conceptuelle, en tant que paradigme historique. C’est un concept qui doit être pensé à l’intérieur d’une histoire quasi exclusivement européenne, où le patrimoine de typologies auquel s’appuie la citoyenneté moderne s’est développé de manière conceptuelle, tout en se définissant, dans l’ensemble, en contraste par rapport aux expériences passées.

Storia della Chiesa valdese dal 1945 al 1958

Introduction to the volume that collects the results of the conference held on 29 May 2023 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Master's Degree Course in Educational Services for the Artistic Heritage, Historical Museums and Visual Arts promoted by the Research Centre for Education through Art and the Mediation of Cultural Heritage in the Territory and in Museums (CREA)

Nel corso dei secoli il termine cittadinanza ha avuto la funzione di definire il suo ambito di applicazione a gruppi di persone ben distinte, mentre oggi, dopo un lungo percorso storico soggetto a evoluzioni e rotture multiple, la medesima parola si distingue per una polisemia ormai difficilmente delineabile che, in alcune sue applicazioni, tende a offrirsi in un’accezione addirittura universale. In questa trama complessa, gli excursus storici sono fondamentali e evidenziano un aspetto importante e peculiare di tutto il processo e cioè che la cittadinanza, come paradigma storico, è un concetto che va pensato all’interno di una storia quasi esclusivamente europea, dove quel patrimonio di tipologie al quale attinge la moderna cittadinanza si è sviluppato concettualmente, pur definendosi nel complesso per contrasto rispetto a quelle esperienze passate., Mais qu’est-ce que l’on entend par citoyenneté ? Au cours des siècles ce terme a eu pour fonction de définir son domaine d’application à des groupes d’individus bien distincts, alors qu’aujourd’hui, après un long parcours historique sujet à des évolutions et ruptures multiples, le même mot se distingue par une polysémie qui est désormais difficile à définir et qui, dans certains de ses emplois, a tendance à proposer une acception qui est tout-à-fait universelle. Dans cette trame complexe, les excursus historiques sont fondamentaux et mettent en évidence un aspect important et spécifique de tout le processus et par conséquent que la citoyenneté s’est développée de façon conceptuelle, en tant que paradigme historique. C’est un concept qui doit être pensé à l’intérieur d’une histoire quasi exclusivement européenne, où le patrimoine de typologies auquel s’appuie la citoyenneté moderne s’est développé de manière conceptuelle, tout en se définissant, dans l’ensemble, en contraste par rapport aux expériences passées.

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The book offers the first wide-ranging study on the history of Vatican Radio from its origins (1931) to the end of World War II based on unpublished sources. The opening of the Vatican Archives on the records regarding Pope Pius 12 has allowed to shed light on the most controversial pontificate of the 20th century. The research provides an original point of view on the most relevant questions such as the relationship of the Holy See with the new media in the mass society; the relation of the Catholic Church with the Fascist regimes and Western democracies; the Vatican position towards the total war and its attitude towards anti-Semitism and the Shoah. Pius 12’s government of the Church has been analyzed through the reconstruction of the relations between Vatican Radio and the Roman Curia; the study of the strategic, propagandistic and diplomatic use of Vatican Radio by the Holy See during World War II; the analysis of the broadcasts, through what was decided to spread, the ways in which news were disseminated and the choice of the most suitable moment to do it; yet even through what they decided not to say, the silences of the Vatican in front of the tragic events of the war. Pius 12 became more and more aware of the strategic use he could make of the radio and Vatican Radio history told in this book reflected the doubts, the reticence, the prudence towards a war that had highlighted all the contradictions not only of the international situation created during the Twenties and Thirties but above all of the position assumed by the Catholic Church in that short period of time in which sudden and unexpected changes have been produced. At the beginning Vatican Radio was used with hesitancy by Pius 11, who nonetheless recognized the great potentialities of the new medium, then strategically by Pius 12, reflecting his way of leading Church, in constant tension between the new and the old, tradition and modernization. Diplomatic and propagandistic medium but also means of

Il saggio indaga la complessa ricezione del Codice di Camaldoli durante la Prima Repubblica attraverso i suoi passaggi più significativi. In particolare, si sofferma sull'immediata ricezione del secondo dopoguerra, tanto all'interno del mondo cattolico, quanto nel dibattito pubblico, dentro e fuori l'Assemblea costituente. Mostra così come il documento, industrialista e meridionalista, una correzione sociale dell'economia classica, sia stato recepito, all'interno della Democrazia cristiana, più dai vecchi popolari che dai giovani dossettiani, orientati verso una spesa pubblica keynesiana. Prosegue poi mostrando la sua fugace ricomparsa come riferimento del progetto moroteo di centro-sinistra, come unificazione economica che, attraverso lo sviluppo del Mezzogiorno, ricordando la vocazione nazionale comune a tutte le correnti del partito, compattasse i cattolici nel loro incontro con i socialisti. Infine, ne delinea la veloce scomparsa col fallimento del centro-sinistra organico e la sua altrettanto repentina riemersione durante gli anni di crisi istituzionale, a cavallo fra i Settanta e gli Ottanta, fra tensioni economiche e sociali, quando venne mitizzato per coprire l'evidente vuoto culturale di una Democrazia cristiana sempre meno rappresentativa del paese.

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The essay analyses the relations between the Holy See and Mexico during the pontificate of Pius XII, starting from the unpublished documentation preserved in the Historical Archive of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See, and concentrating on the years from the election of Eugenio Pacelli to the papal throne to the beginning of the six-year presidential term of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1952-1958). Two main trends emerge from the examination of the Vatican papers: on the one hand, there is the undoubted consolidation of the fragile modus vivendi inaugurated by President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río at the end of the 1930’s – based on the non-application of the anticlerical provisions of the Constitution of Querétaro (1917) – which under the successive presidencies of Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940-1946) and Miguel Alemán Valdés (1946-1952) would see the Apostolic Delegation in Mexico entertain a constant and profitable dialogue with the supreme authority of the State. On the other hand, starting from the passage from the Ávila Camacho presidency to the Alemán Valdés presidency, the Vatican Secretariat of State will repeatedly express its growing dissatisfaction with a legislative framework that is effectively unchanged compared to the years of open religious persecution, together with its concern for the acquiescence of relevant sectors of Mexican Catholicism towards a distancing of the Church from the political and legislative dimension that was now taken for granted. A key role in these processes was played by the Archbishop of Mexico Luis María Martínez y Rodríguez (from 1937 to 1948 in charge of affairs of the Apostolic Delegation) and by Mgr. Guglielmo Piani (appointed Apostolic Visitor in 1948 and Apostolic Delegate to Mexico in 1951), whose work received contrasting evaluations in the Vatican.

The essay aims at reconstructing the cultural foundations of Neo-Atlantism, a peculiar phase of post-war Italian foreign policy that coincided with the attempt to reconcile the Atlantic bond with a renewed protagonism in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern quadrant, in the framework of the decolonisation processes that in the mid-1950s were leading to a retreat of Franco-British positions in the region. The analysis dwells on the visions of the Mediterranean – understood as a space of civilisation and as a bridge between the West, North Africa and the Levant – that innervated the reflection of Italian Catholicism from the immediate post-war period to the end of the 1950s. The related debate is reconstructed here mainly from the perusal of some of the most important cultural journals of the Catholic area of the time.

Recensione all'inventario dell'Archivio della Nunziatura apostolica in Italia curato da Giovanni Castaldo

Recensione al volume curato da Marco Bellabarba e Camilla Tenaglia

This interdisciplinary book has contributions from scholars in the EU, Canada, and Mexico from the fields of political science, social sciences, and history. The main topics are political culture, politics, labour, and business associations. Specific topics include Christian democratic parties, citizenship, welfare policies, social programs, labour market, public programs. This collection provides a fresh and innovative perspective on the issue of the connection between democratic systems and labour. Readers interested in politics, history, sociology, and economics could study new perspectives in depth.

The crisis of globalisation, the rise of autocratic competitors to the liberal-democratic model, the return of symmetric warfare on European soil, the problem of energy resources and global disparities in accessing them, the consequences of the Anthropocene on the lives of millions of people around the World, are just some of the problematic issues that new generations of scholars and academics are called to answer in the next decades. This impressive conjuncture of critical phenomena reveals the exhaustion of an entire mindset, which belongs to the Twentieth Century and, in particular, to the illusion that the History was over, together with some of the most harmful Nineteenth Century’s legacies: industrial pollution, economic and social inequalities, radical nationalism and imperialism. In other words, it looks like the Utopian visions of the past – and especially the ones related with the Western liberal thought – have come to terms with their limitis which, in their turns, have produced a series of dystopic effects in the real World. Given this general picture, it is not so surprising to note a revival of dystopian narratives in literature, tv series, film-making and a variety of other cultural products. Placed within a broader interdisciplinary research project focused on the penetration of dystopian narratives in the Twenty-First century’s collective imagery (as well as the analysis of the political role played by dystopias in present times) this collective work brings together the thoughts of seven young doctoral students, who read some of the most crucial issues of our times through the lenses of utopia and dystopia, as well as by different disciplinary perspectives. From the challenges related to the natural resources management and the energy transition to the rise of alterative political models to the Western liberal-democracy, each essay accounts for the long term impact of utopian theories and ideas over time and their eventual dystopic effects

Le relazioni tra Santa Sede e Cina durante il pontificato di Papa Francesco

L'antifascismo di Bernardo Mattarella

Il saggio, sulla base della storiografia sul tema, delinea i risvolti socio-culturali della diffusione della peste nell'Impero ottomano tra XVIII e XIX secolo. Le continue epidemie ebbero un grande influsso sulla percezione europea del mondo ottomano, definito per questo il "malato" dell'Europa., The essay, based on historiography on the topic, outlines the socio-cultural implications of the spread of the plague in the Ottoman Empire between the 18th and 19th centuries. The continuous epidemics had a great influence on the European perception of the Ottoman world, which was therefore defined as the "sick man" of Europe.

La rivista gesuita "Études" e le sue posizioni durante gli anni della crisi modernista, in particolare per ciò che concerne gli studi biblici (Loisy e Langrange).

Labour is an essential feature of economic development and social change in industrialised Western countries. Yet economic and social theory as well as historical research have been underestimating its role. This volume discusses the labour vision developed by Christian Democratic-oriented parties and associations in the second half of XXI Century, in relation to the democratic and republican choice and – at the same time – capitalistic development. For a long time, Christian Democrats ruled in Western European countries, managing different choices and making policies for the labour market and the defence of workers’ rights. In addition, Christian churches paid increasing attention to social questions. The essays also emphasise the leading role of civil society (associations, movements and trade unions) in supporting labour policies. Hence, the historical readings collected here offer the opportunity to understand convergences but also differences among the experiences.

Le relazioni tra Cina, Europa e Stati Uniti tra XX e XXI secolo

Prefazione al volume dedicato ai cattolici italiani e la Cina dal 1949 al 1992

The essay sheds light on the Holy See's attitudes towards Mexico in the postrevolutionary era, with special reference to the Pius XII' pontificate

This volume calls attention to the worst massacre of Christians that has occurred on the African continent, a 1937 attack on the monastic village of Debre Libanos that has previously been hidden from public knowledge. Between 20 and 29 May 1937, about 2,000 monks and pilgrims, cosidered "conniving" in the attack on the fascist Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, were killed in Ethiopia. The attack on Debre Libanos, the most famous sanctuary of Ethiopian Christianity, far exceeded the logic of a strictly military operation. It repersented the apex of wide-ranging reperessive action, aimed at crushing the Ethiopian resistance and striking at the hearth of the Christian tradition for its historical link with the imperial power of the Negus. Although known to scholars, the episode was totally removed from national historical memory. Now available in English, this book's analysis of the events culminating in te massacre, including the cover-up afterward, is a necessary record for scholars of European colonialism, Christian history, and colonial Africa.

This contribution traces the ways in which critical hygienic-sanitary situations have been dealt with in the People’s Republic of China and the political-ideological value attributed to their management. From this historical overview, it emerges that the instrument of mobilization has constituted a constant way of conducting sanitation work for the Beijing government, the legacy of which also seems to re-emerge in the policies aimed to containing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Il volume ricostruisce e analizza il contributo dei cattolici italiani alle relazioni tra l’Italia e la Repubblica popolare cinese durante la Guerra fredda, esaminando le motivazioni e le visioni politiche, economiche e religiose che ispirarono l’impegno di personalità come Giorgio La Pira, Amintore Fanfani, Aldo Moro, Vittorino Colombo e Giulio Andreotti. Attraverso l’analisi di fonti edite e inedite, emerge come fra i cattolici italiani vi fossero figure che furono in grado di superare la rigida divisione tra comunismo e anticomunismo e la lontananza geografica e culturale per sviluppare un fruttuoso dialogo tra due realtà profondamente diverse sul piano politico, ideologico ed economico come l’Italia e la Cina.

Il nome del presidente dell’Eni è tornato alla ribalta come uno degli artefici del boom economico italiano. Il saggio rileva che alle origini del suo impegno è individuabile una prospettiva più ampia, ideata e condivisa da intellettuali cattolici tra guerra, Resistenza e Liberazione. Le pur indubitabili qualità dell’uomo d’azione non avrebbero potuto ottenere risultati tanto rilevanti se non avessero trovato ispirazione in un complesso di principi sociali, incentrati sulla persuasione che, per superare gli ostacoli che rallentavano lo sviluppo, occorresse tener conto delle esigenze dei soggetti più deboli, in Italia e nel mondo.

Il volume raccoglie gli interventi tenuti nel corso della Summer School 202 della Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Umanistici - Tradizione e contemporaneità.

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Il contributo analizza le reazioni occidentali ai fatti di Tian'anmen del giugno 1989 e il percorso di superamento della crisi tra Cina e Occidente, focalizzandosi in particolare sul ruolo svolto dall'Italia.

The essay aims to briefly reconstruct the history of the monthly Jesuit periodical «Latinoamérica. Revista mensual de cultura y orientación», published in Mexico by the Buena Prensa publishing house from January 1949 to December 1958, and then transferred to Cuba, where it was published by the Colegio de Belén in Havana from January 1959 until it was discontinued the following April, against the background of the Cuban regime-change successfully led by Fidel Castro. Particular attention is devoted to the continental vocation of the periodical and its insistence on the social question, in its many facets in the Latin American subcontinent, in order to understand to what extent «Latinoamérica» succeeded in interpreting, or at least intercepting, the anxieties for renewal that spread within the pre-conciliar Church (in America as in Europe) and that affected all levels of Catholic presence in society, from the religious to the cultural, without neglecting the socio-economic context (often dramatic) in which religious and lay people found themselves working on a daily basis.

Si indagano le vicende del priorato cluniacense, e poi abbazia olivetana, del monastero di San Nicola di Rodengo (Brescia) sulla base delle carte d'archivio e della storiografia più recente., The history of the Cluniac priory, and then Olivetan abbey, of the monastery of San Nicola di Rodengo (Brescia) is investigated on the basis of archival papers and the most recent historiography.

La biografia di Giorgio Morelli rappresenta, per certi aspetti, la storia di un’intera generazione di cattolici cresciuta negli anni Trenta all’interno dell’Azione Cattolica che, dopo l’armistizio del 1943 e la chiamata alle armi della Repubblica Sociale, si trovò a prendere decisioni personali radicali. Fin dal settembre del ’43, Morelli fu attivo all’interno della Resistenza a Reggio Emilia operando come giornalista, prima attraverso la stampa dei «Fogli Tricolore» e poi, dal 1944, insieme all’amico Eugenio Corezzola e sotto la guida di Giuseppe Dossetti, come redattore de «La Penna», rivista della brigata cattolica Fiamme Verdi. L’esperienza di Morelli fa luce sulle ragioni di una ‘resistenza cattolica’ e su forme di resistenza civile a lungo sottovalutate dalla storiografia. Il volume ricostruisce anche l’attività giornalistica di Morelli nell’immediato dopoguerra, in un contesto reso difficile dalle polemiche tra ex partigiani garibaldini e Fiamme Verdi. Fin dall’estate del 1945 va in scena uno scontro che si gioca sul terreno delle ‘memorie’ della Resistenza e sfocia nell’elaborazione di differenti concezioni di antifascismo e nella frattura fra le diverse componenti che avevano combattuto la lotta partigiana. Morelli fonda, insieme a Eugenio Corezzola, la rivista «La Nuova Penna», che denuncia crimini irrisolti attribuendoli a ex-partigiani comunisti. Si apre così uno scontro che culminerà con l’attentato a Giorgio Morelli, che morirà nell’agosto 1947 per le ferite riportate.

Il libro è il risultato di un ampio scavo documentario grazie al quale viene ricostruita la storia della rivista e dell’editrice Studium dal 1939, anno della scomparsa del loro principale animatore Igino Righetti, alla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale. L’opera offre l’occasione per continuare a riflettere sul rapporto tra cultura cattolica e fascismo, in particolare sulla posizione assunta da un cenacolo di intellettuali che all’interno del cattolicesimo italiano rappresentò un’area di minoranza più critica nei riguardi del regime e della sua politica ecclesiastica. In un periodo in cui cominciano ad uscire i primi nuovi lavori sul pontificato di Pio XII, frutto dell’apertura agli studiosi degli archivi vaticani per gli anni 1939-1958, appare di notevole interesse affiancare allo studio della linea magisteriale quello delle diverse posizioni degli intellettuali cattolici italiani (ma anche europei, possibilmente in comparazione). A questo proposito il volume di Torresi offre spunti per ulteriori future indagini.

L’internamento dei militari italiani nei lager nazisti dopo l’8 settembre 1943 pone ancora oggi diverse questioni di analisi storiografica; tra queste, assume particolare rilevanza il tema della pace visto sia come lo strumento attraverso cui i prigionieri hanno contrastato il nazifascismo sia come lo stato interiore raggiunto attraverso la preghiera e l’introspezione spirituale. Parimenti importante, inoltre, il tema della resistenza non armata come fondamento del futuro stato repubblicano., The imprisonment of the Italian soldiers in Nazi lagers after 8th September 1943 still raises various questions of historiographical analysis. Among them, the topic of peace assumes specific relevance and it is seen both as the tool used by prisoners to contrast Nazi fascism and as the inner state achieved through prayer and spiritual introspection. Moreover, it is equally important the topic of non-armed resistance as the foundation of the future Italian republican State.

The political and social thought of Luigi Giussani – founder of the international Catholic movement of Communion and Liberation – was often described, in the 1980s, as antithetical to a democratic conception and identified, on the contrary, with a form of neo-theocracy directly descended from what would have been the «religious intransigentism» of the experience of Gioventù Studentesca (GS) first, and of Communion and Liberation later. This essay reconstructs the development of the reflections of Luigi Giussani and the students of Gioventù Studentesca on democracy between the 1950s and 1960s, returning a novel picture compared to the one outlined so far by a part of historiography.

The article examines Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi’s role in addressing aid appeals submitted to both him and the Holy See during World War II from Jews and Jewish converts to Catholicism. The article is divided into two parts. First, after a biographical overview of Tacchi Venturi, Sergio Palagiano presents Affari series documents about aid requests to escape racial laws that the Jesuit received for relevant fascist ministry handling. Second, Raffaella Perin reviews historiographical insights on Tacchi’s stance toward Jews and Italy’s racial laws. Using newly accessible documentation cross-referencing Vatican and Society of Jesus archives, she reconstructs various aid appeal cases.

Viene recensito il volume curato da Lorenzo Benadusi e Vincenzo Lagioia sui crimini sessuali del clero in età moderna e contemporanea

Among the development models drawn up by the Italian Catholic world in the mid-twentieth century, we should consider that designed in one of the nerve centres of Italian Catholic culture, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. This essay analyses the contribution made by groups of professors and assistant professors, at first clandestinely, and later in political and institutional bodies, to the reconstruction of Italy, significantly influencing social thought in the postwar period. Their contribution stemmed from their reflections during the period between the 1930s and the 1950s, which were compared both with corporatism as well as AngloSaxon models and the New Deal, opting for the creation of a «SolidarityState», which was an alternative to individualism and collectivism. This essay uses analyses of journals, books and debates, which have also been pieced together thanks to unpublished documentation.

The essay reconstructs some decisive stages in the history of JEC (Juventude Estudantil Católica) and JUC (Juventude Universitária Católica) in Brazil between the 1950s and 1960s, highlighting the influence of the francophone model of “specialized” Catholic Action on the history of the two Brazilian student movements. Since the second half of the 1950s, the Brazilian JEC and JUC had expressed a desire to move beyond an approach that focused exclusively on the religious education in favor of a model that combined both faith education and social action. This led the leaders of the JEC and JUC to look for models that they initially found in Maritain’s thought, as documented by the debate around the «Ideal Histórico» at the turn of the Fifties and Sixties, or in the theory of «Engajamento», which they took from the model of French Catholic Action. In just a few years, however, young Brazilians would come to a radical critique of the foundations of Maritain’s thought, from which they had started, outlining the theoretical and practical basis for the Theology of Liberation elaborated by Gutiérrez in the early 1970s. The events of the JEC and JUC, even with some peculiarities, represent a paradigmatic anticipation of some processes that will affect some of the Catholic Action youth groups in South America and Europe after 1968.

While much has been written on the various sides of Italian neo-Atlanticism – from the energy policy conducted by Enrico Mattei’s ENI to the international initiatives promoted in Florence by Mayor La Pira (such as the Mediterranean Colloquia) – not as much attention has been paid to the cultural origins of Christian Democrat Italy’s Mediterranean and Middle Eastern policy, which on the one hand took its cue from the international contingencies of the moment, but on the other was also part of the political, philosophical and theological ideas and intuitions that had innervated the reflection of Italian Catholics in previous years, nourishing an ideal horizon that inspired a peculiar vision of international relations in the Mediterranean area. Trying to reconstruct at least some of the threads of this web of reflections is the aim of this contribution, which reviews the main considerations on the Mediterranean expressed within Italian Catholicism from the immediate post-war period to the end of the pontificate of Pius XII.

Attraverso l’analisi di scritti, interventi e appunti inediti, conservati nell’Archivio personale di Giuseppe Camadini, il saggio identifica la rilevanza – nella prospettiva del notaio bresciano – della preoccupazione di ripensare a una presenza efficace dei cattolici nella società italiana, in una temperie storica che ha messo fuori gioco vecchi strumenti di intervento. A partire da tale preoccupazione, Camadini ripensa alla storia del cattolicesimo bresciano fra Otto e Novecento – un «patrimonio» da cui ripartire con «impegno creativo» –, prendendo le distanze da chi si è servito del passato per alimentare dialettiche interne al mondo cattolico del secondo Novecento, quando si sono contrapposte identità di parte alternative, per Camadini connotate da integrismo sia a destra sia a sinistra. Le dinamiche reali della storia di Brescia cattolica, dai tempi di Giuseppe Tovini sino alla metà del Novecento, gli sembrano distanti dalla lettura di chi – in ambienti democristiani bresciani e nella stessa storiografia – ha sottolineato una divaricazione, per Camadini infondata, fra la linea di Tovini e l’eredità montiniana. Al notaio bresciano sembra invece utile evidenziare gli elementi che caratterizzano il modello bresciano, segnato da una fede incarnata nella quotidianità e aliena da intimismi e ideologismi, che ha proposto alternative reali al livello delle relazioni socio-economiche e della promozione sociale e culturale della popolazione.

Il saggio ricostruisce il dibattito intorno al tema della 'rivoluzione cristiana' mettendo a confronto i diversi significati che esso ha assunto nella storia del pensiero cristiano tra gli anni Quaranta e gli anni Sessanta del Novecento.

Through the analysis of the reflections elaborated in the Movimento Lavoratori and Giovani Lavoratori movement of the GIAC (Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica), the essay investigates certain aspects of the evolution of the democratic conception that marked the Catholic youth laity in the world of work from the 1950s until 1969, the year of the maximum mobilization of the Workers Movement in Italy. Indeed, if the transformations of the European and South American JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne) in the same years have been widely investigated by historiography, the history of the Movimento Lavoratori of the Italian Catholic Action has not yet been the subject of systematic reflection in this regard. Moreover, the essay considers the relationships that existed between the Italian reality, the international JOC and other movements of the Latin America Catholic laity, which decisively marked the processes of transformation of the socio-cultural paradigms of the Italian movement.

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This volume gathers together the fruits of the dialogue between ten European and American scholars aimed at exploring the transnational horizons of Catholic social action from the post-World War II period to the Council years. Through a plurality of approaches, some of the ways in which Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic, in a fruitful and ongoing exchange of views and experiences, have reflected on issues of social justice and democracy are examined. Their reflections were not abstract, but embodied in social, cultural and political experiences that have left their mark on the history and identity of local Catholicisms, helping to show the potential for change inherent in the Gospel and in the principles of the Social Doctrine of the Church. Starting from these premises, this publication seeks to delve into ideal links and networks of relations that in the period following the Second World War have made the Atlantic a little narrower, highlighting the contribution of the Catholic world, in its different souls, to contemporary globalisation processes.