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Auf "angemate Heiligkeit" und Mordversuche lautete die Anklage in einem Inquisitionsprozess, der 1859 bis 1862 skandalose Zustande im romischen Frauenkloster Sant Ambrogio ans Licht brachte. Mogliche Tatmotive waren Machtkampfe, Eifersucht und die Vertuschung sexueller Beziehungen. Historiker, Theologen, Religionswissenschaftler und ein Psychiater ordnen den Fall in seine Zusammenhange ein. Sie liefern einen Uberblick uber Heiligkeit in Religion und Kirche, zeichnen historische Unterscheidungen von "falscher" und "angemater" Heiligkeit nach und nehmen das 19. Jahrhundert als Zeitalter des...

The Vatican's dealings with the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich have long been swathed in myth and speculation. After almost seventy years, the crucial records for the years leading up to 1939 were finally opened to the public, revealing the bitter conflicts that raged behind the walls of the Holy See. Anti-Semites and philo-Semites, adroit diplomats and dogmatic fundamentalists, influential bishops and powerful cardinals argued passionately over the best way to contend with the intellectual and political currents of the modern age: liberalism, communism, fascism, and National...

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In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she feared for her life. A subsequent investigation by the Church's Inquisition uncovered the shocking secrets of a convent ruled by a beautiful young mistress, who coerced her novices into lesbian initiation rites and heresies, and who entered into an illicit relationship with a young theologian. Drawing upon written testimony and original documents discovered in a secret...

Humanism is a cultural movement, an educational program, an epoch, a tradition, a world view, a form of practical philosophy, and a basic political attitude that is called upon for the implementation of human rights and humanitarian practice. "Basic Ideas" address these different elements and their interconnections, analyzing their utility for the future.