Il papa rosso e il papa nero: Alle origini della conflittualità tra la Congregazione de Propaganda Fide e la Compagnia di Gesù (XVII secolo)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Year:
- 2014
- Journal Title:
- Ricerche di Storia Sociale e Religiosa
- Volume:
- 85–86
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- Abstract:
Relations between the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith—the body of the Roman curia responsible for missionary work founded in 1622—and the Society of Jesus have been characterized by reciprocal iciness and moments of open conflict. However innappropriate it may be to speak of a generic 'anti-Jesuit' attitude for an institutional organ such as the Congregation, it is undeniable that there are long-term aspects that betray this opposition. For example, the fact that the Jesuit missionaries displayed a spirit of independence from the Congregation, particularly as regards the concession of 'apostolic faculties', claiming independent subjection to the Pope alone on the basis of the fourth vow relating to the missions. While acknowledging the value of the apostolic action of the Ignatian order, from the 17th century on the Congregation complained of this attitude on various occasions in documents that have been passed down within its historic memory. This is why historiography has considered several members of the same as 'anti-Jesuit', especially in the course of the 18th-century suppression of the Society of Jesus. This essay instead returns to the initial 17th-century phase of this opposition, at the time of the organisation of the missionary jurisdiction following the creation of the Congregation. It explores both the connections and the controversies between the two institutions on several precise issues, and the attitudes of certain specific figures (Francesco Ingoli, William Lesley and Urbano Cerri).
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- Page Range:
- 115–139
- ISSN:
- 0392-1581