Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850 1950

ISBN-13: 9780521812047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 288 str.

John Pollard; John F. Pollard

Opis

John Pollard, a leading historian of the papacy, explores the transformation of the Vatican into a major financial power and the part money played in the development of the modern papacy. Using hitherto unexplored sources, he sheds new light on tensions between the Vatican's engagement with capitalism and the Church's social teaching, and conflicts between the Vatican and the Allies during the Second World War and the early Cold War.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Any scholar with an interest in the modern Church or Italian history should read this book, but even fans of Dan Brown might enjoy it.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The reign of Pius IX: Vatican finances before and after the fall of Rome (1850–1878); 3. The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878–1903); 4. Vatican finances under the 'Peasant Pope', Pius X (1903–1914); 5. 'The great charitable lord'?: Vatican finances under Benedict XV (1914–1922); 6. 'Economical and prudent bourgeois'?: Pius XI, 1922–1929; 7. The Wall Street crash and Vatican finances in the early 1930s; 8. Vatican finances in an age of global consolidation, 1933–1939; 9. Vatican finances in the reign of Pius XII: the Second World War and the early Cold War, 1939–1950; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.