The Bologna School is an interpretation of the
Second Vatican Council
The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the , or , was the 21st Catholic ecumenical councils, ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. The council met in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome for four periods (or sessions) ...
"which emphasized the
'spirit' of the council, styling the progressive reformers as the heroes and the conservative minority at the council as the enemies of progress". It is name after the city of
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
, the intellectual centre of this
school of thought
A school of thought, or intellectual tradition, is the perspective of a group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, economics, cultural movement, or art movement.
H ...
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The leading minds of this historical school have been
Giuseppe Dossetti
Giuseppe Dossetti (13 February 1913 – 15 December 1996) was an Italian jurist, a politician, and from 1958 onward, a Catholic priest.
Political career
Dossetti was born in Genoa, the son of a piedmontese pharmacist and a mother from Regg ...
,
Alberto Melloni
Alberto Melloni (Reggio nell'Emilia, 6 January 1959) is an Italian church historian and a Unesco Chairholder of the Chair on Religious Pluralism & Peace, primarily known for his work on the Councils and the Second Vatican Council. Since 2020, he is ...
and
Giuseppe Alberigo Giuseppe Alberigo (Cuasso al Monte, 21 January 1926 – Bologna, 15 June 2007) was an Italian Catholic historian and editor of a history of the Second Vatican Council that focuses on alleged discontinuities and departures from previous Church teach ...
.
See also
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John XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences
The Foundation for Religious Sciences John XXIII ( it, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII) is a research institution in Bologna, Italy and is directed by Alberto Melloni. The organization publishes, organizes, receives and communic ...
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Pact of the Catacombs
The Pact of the Catacombs is an agreement signed by 42 bishops of the Catholic Church at a meeting following Mass in the Catacombs of Domitilla near Rome on the evening of 16 November 1965, three weeks before the close of the Second Vatican Council ...
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Saint Gallen Group
The Saint Gallen Group, also called the Saint Gallen Mafia, was an informal group of high ranking like-minded liberal/reformist clerics in the Catholic Church, described by the Bishop of Saint Gallen, Ivo Fürer, who hosted the discussions, as ...
References
Further reading
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Second Vatican Council
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