Cardinal Merry del Val and the modernist crisis

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/ihemc.41.2021.815-844

Keywords:

Roman Catholic Church, Merry del Val, Pius X, Catholic Modernism, Integralism

Abstract

The article explores the work of Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta, Secretary of State of Pius X (1903-1914) and protagonist of the condemnation of modernism and the repression of the modernists. Later he worked as secretary of the Holy Office until his death (1930). Merry del Val does not seem to have shared all the positions of the exponents of the most bitter Catholic integralism, but the Anglo-Spanish cardinal was always inflexible in his aversion to any attempt to renew the contents and forms of Catholic Christianity and towards the first ecumenical ferments, during his decades of service to the Holy See.

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Published

2021-12-03

Issue

No. 41 (2021)

Section

MISCELLANY

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