Anglo-vatican relations, historically marked by reciprocal diffidences, were characterized by cordiality during the first part of the pontificate of Pope Achille Ratti - Pius XI (1922-1939). From 1927 to 1932 a painful conflict between Church and State in Malta, the Roman Catholic British colony, gradually turned into a bitter diplomatic confrontation between the Secretariat of State of His Holiness and the Foreign Office. The ties between United Kingdom and Holy See weakened further in the years 1935-1936, during the Ethiopian War: wrongly, London interpreted Papal Diplomacy’s peace initiative as conceived to support the imperial claims of Fascist Italy. In 1937, following the publication of the Encyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge”, a factual rapprochement started: the British perceived the Papacy as lined up with democracies and opposed to Totalitarian States, that is to say Germany and Italy. The institution of the Apostolic Delegation to Great Britain (November 1938) constituted symptom and concrete manifestation of a new and deep harmony.
I rapporti anglo-vaticani, storicamente segnati da reciproche diffidenze, si distinsero per cordialità nel corso della prima parte del pontificato di Papa Achille Ratti - Pio XI (1922-1939). Tra il 1927 e il 1932 un doloroso conflitto tra Chiesa e Stato a Malta, cattolicissima colonia britannica, si trasformò gradualmente in un aspro scontro diplomatico tra la Segreteria di Stato di Sua Santità ed il Foreign Office. I legami tra Regno Unito e Santa Sede si indebolirono ulteriormente nel biennio 1935-1936, durante la Guerra d’Etiopia: a torto, Londra interpretò l’iniziativa di pace della diplomazia pontificia come funzionale a sostenere le rivendicazioni imperiali dell’Italia fascista. Nel 1937, a seguito della pubblicazione dell’enciclica “Mit Brennender Sorge”, ebbe principio un effettivo riavvicinamento: gli inglesi percepirono il Papato allineato alle democrazie e contrapposto ai totalitarismi, ovverosia Germania e Italia. L’istituzione della Delegazione apostolica in Gran Bretagna (novembre 1938) costituiva sintomo e manifestazione concreta di tale nuova e profonda armonia.
BOTRUGNO, LORENZO, LE RELAZIONI DIPLOMATICHE TRA IL REGNO UNITO E LA SANTA SEDE DURANTE IL PONTIFICATO DI PIO XI (1922 - 1939), DE LEONARDIS, MASSIMO, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXVII [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/285095]
LE RELAZIONI DIPLOMATICHE TRA IL REGNO UNITO E LA SANTA SEDE DURANTE IL PONTIFICATO DI PIO XI (1922 - 1939)
Botrugno, Lorenzo
2015
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Anglo-vatican relations, historically marked by reciprocal diffidences, were characterized by cordiality during the first part of the pontificate of Pope Achille Ratti - Pius XI (1922-1939). From 1927 to 1932 a painful conflict between Church and State in Malta, the Roman Catholic British colony, gradually turned into a bitter diplomatic confrontation between the Secretariat of State of His Holiness and the Foreign Office. The ties between United Kingdom and Holy See weakened further in the years 1935-1936, during the Ethiopian War: wrongly, London interpreted Papal Diplomacy’s peace initiative as conceived to support the imperial claims of Fascist Italy. In 1937, following the publication of the Encyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge”, a factual rapprochement started: the British perceived the Papacy as lined up with democracies and opposed to Totalitarian States, that is to say Germany and Italy. The institution of the Apostolic Delegation to Great Britain (November 1938) constituted symptom and concrete manifestation of a new and deep harmony.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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