Romolo Murri
Romolo Murri (
ecclesiastic. This Catholic priest was suspended for having joined the party Lega Democratica Nazionale and is widely considered in Italy as the precursor of Christian democracy
.
In 1894 was a promoter of the
FUCI, in 1901 of Democrazia Cristiana Italiana and in 1905 of Lega Democratica Nazionale. He founded the publications "Vita nova" (1895),[1] "Cultura sociale" (1898),[2]
"Il domani d'Italia" (1901), "Rivista di cultura" (1906), "Il commento" (1910).
In strong controversy, therefore, with the ecclesiastical hierarchies (following numerous appeals and as many acts of submission), he was finally suspended
Pius XII having demanded of him no disavowal of his past social and political positions.[4]
Works
In addition to the numerous writings in the aforementioned periodicals in which he participated, Murri wrote some essays.
- Catholic Conservatives and Christian Democrats, 1900
- Class organization and professional unions, 1901
- Battles of today, 1901-1904 [collection of articles published in «Cultura Sociale»]
- Social Summary, 1906
- Clerical politics and democracy, Cesaro, Ascoli Piceno, 1908
- Spain and the Vatican, Milan, Treves Brothers, 1911
- War profiles, Milan: Italian Publishing Institute, 1917
- From Christian Democracy to the Italian Popular Party, 1920
- The ideal conquest of the state, Milan: Imperia, 1923
- Faith and Fascism, Rome, 1924
- The contemporary spiritual crisis. Origins - Orientations, 1932
- Cavour, Rome: Formiggini, 1936
- The universal idea of Rome, Milan: Bompiani, 1937
- The Christian Message and History, 1943
References
- ^ University newspaper that supported the FUCI work. On occasion of the Catholic congress of Fiesole in 1986, the magazine direction and the FUCI organization itself were removed from Murri. cf. Gabriella Fanello Marcucci, Storia della FUCI, Studium, Roma, 1971.
- ^ The foundation of this newspaper, announced by Murri, its main inspiration, to the Catholic congress of Milan in 1987, was a response to the recently founded magazine of the socialists "Critica sociale". The first number of "Cultura sociale", in which Don Sturzo also collaborated, was printed in Fermo in 1898.
- ^ "PRIEST EXCOMMUNICATED.; Father Murri, Leader of Italian Catholic Democrats, Cut off by Church". The New York Times. 23 March 1909.
- ^ "ROMOLO MURRI - Encyclopædia Universalis". Archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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