Book Review: Massimo Faggioli, Cattolicesimo nazionalismo cosmopolitismo. Chiesa, società e politica dal Vaticano II a papa Francesco, Roma: Armando Editore, 2018, pp. 176

DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2022-1/326-331

Abstract

This is a review of a monograph «Catholicism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism. Church, Society and Politics from the Second Vatican Council to Pope Francis» by Massimo Faggioli, professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University in Philadelphia (USA). The book was published in 2018 in Rome in the Italian language and has not been translated into Russian yet. The author analyses the place and the role of the Roman Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council (1062) and after the scandalous allegations of sexual harassment by a number of Catholic priests. He scrupulously studies the changes in relations within the Catholic Church during the time of Pope Francis, involving a large number of church documents and other sources. However, the reviewer expresses an opinion that the book lacks information about the signing of the Lateran Pacts – a significant event for the Roman Catholic Church, which resulted in the Vatican’s independence.

For Citation: Neretin, A. 2022. Book Review: Massimo Faggioli, Cattolicesimo nazionalismo cosmopolitismo. Chiesa, società e politica dal Vaticano II a papa Francesco, Roma: Armando Editore, 2018, pp. 176. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii) 1: 326–331.