1st Edition
Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century A Global History
Introduction
1. The mystique of sacrifice and political violence
Passion and resurrection in Ireland
Doctrine, public opinion, and politics
A war waged by saints
Squadrismo, violence, and obedience
2. Tradition and rebellion in Mexico
Against the secular state
Hard-line rebels
‘Cristeros’
In defence of the faith
3. Sacralized insurrection
Crusade and terror in Spain
A universal struggle in a national battleground
The Church in combat
El derecho a la rebeldía
Holy war and the Holy Office
4. Revolution and incitement to hatred: the deliberations of Rome during total war
The battle between devils
The truly Catholic war
The heresy of hatred
5. Holy war during the Cold War
Not revolution, but war
A crusade to save Hungary?
Global mobilization
Discrimination and disadvantage
6. Latin America and revolution as an obligation
Armed charity from sociology to guerrilla warfare
Transatlantic circulation of ideas
Theology and revolution
Violence by the peace-lovers and the mystique of guerrilla warfare
From liberation to human rights
7. Words and deeds
The increasing disconnection
A Catholic element in the origins of the Red Brigades?
Division and infiltration
The beginning of the end
The ‘Sands bomb’
8. Rwanda: colonialism and its legacy
A ‘Catholic country’ in central Africa
The Church during the revolution
Construction of ‘the enemy within’
Complicity and silence
9. The end of the revolution?
Rosaries, not bullets: the Aquino ‘miracl’ in the Philippines
Lights in the East and the ‘morality of means’
Ambivalende and the peace process in the Basque Country
Democracy and policies of terror: Peru’s tragic twenty years
Armed for life: anti-abortion attacks in the United States
Conclusions
Biography
Lucia Ceci is Professor of Contemporary History at the Tor Vergata University of Rome. Her research interests include the relationships between Catholicism, politics, and ideologies in the twentieth century. As well as writing five books on these themes, including The Vatican and Mussolini’s Italy (2016), whose original Italian edition (2013) won the Friuli History Award, she has edited eight others, and published numerous articles.
