Journal title ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA
Author/s Lucia Ceci
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/283
Language Italian Pages 30 P. 11-40 File size 213 KB
DOI 10.3280/IC2017-283001
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Catholic activism in the Irish Republican Army led Italian Catholicism to adopt a variety of stances, shifting from open support to condemnation. These positions intersected with the Papacy’s official line. The issue of the moral legitimacy of armed struggle for the cause of the nation was intertwined with its justification of fighting the capitalist system. The 1981 Irish hunger strike, with its world-wide echo, raised new questions, in particular whether that kind of struggle was in reality a form of suicide The article investigates the different political stances these events engendered among Italian Catholics, and focuses in particular on the Papacy’s view of the nexus Catholicism/political violence/nation/transnational action.
Keywords: Political Violence, Religion, Catholic Church, Northern Ireland
Lucia Ceci, I cattolici italiani e la questione nordirlandese dallo scoppio dei Troubles a Bobby Sands: religione, nazionalismo ed esercizio della violenza in "ITALIA CONTEMPORANEA" 283/2017, pp 11-40, DOI: 10.3280/IC2017-283001