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Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

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Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade Articles

Politics, Religion, and the Priority of Belief

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Giuliana Chamedes
April 26, 2021

We too need to come out from behind the curtain and frame the “so-what” of our story not just in terms of scholarly debates, but with careful attention to what our story can illuminate about the human condition.

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The Vatican’s Foreign Policy: Avoiding Confrontation, Accommodating Interests

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., PhD
April 23, 2021January 27, 2024

Far from living the radical idealism of Jesus, the Church as a realist and discerning body politic accepts that both good and evil will always coexist in this imperfect world.

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The Enduring Appeal of Christian Europe

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Paul Hanebrink
April 21, 2021

A Twentieth-Century Crusade reveals just how closely the civic components of Catholic internationalism imitated aspects of its Communist rival—or, more precisely, of Communism as it was imagined in Rome.

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Twentieth-Century Crusades and Crusaders Reimagined

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Cara Burnidge
April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

The “religious” figure and body in this book is not a “faith-based” “non-state actor” seeking to share gospel stories or convert others, but rather a state actor focused on further developing its legal power and political authority.

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Introduction to Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Joshua S. Lupo
April 15, 2021April 26, 2021

This book presents the heretofore understudied history of Catholic international diplomacy in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

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Catholicism in Need of Critical Caretaking

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Scott Appleby
April 13, 2021January 27, 2024

So intent was the Vatican on “protecting the Church” that even the horrors of the Holocaust, not lost on Pope Pius XII, failed to scandalize Catholic diplomats and other officials into reconsidering the rights of religious minorities and championing religious freedom.

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