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This issue of the Journal of Modern and Contemporary Christianity documents a workshop held at Villa Vigoni, the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, in October 2023.
The opening of the Vatican archives for the pontificate of Pius XII has also created new possibilities for research into the history of theology.
The Franco-German-Italian workshop (which was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) examined ongoing projects in this context and related them to earlier research on the history of the Magisterium and Roman censorship.
Theologically, the pontificate of Pius XII was characterised by an interesting mixture of cautious tendencies towards openness and renewed repression.
Against this background, the workshop offered an impressive panorama of current research on the Roman Magisterium under Pius XII, which unfolds in the contributions to this issue. These offer many doctrinal, source-critical, institutional and prosopographical points of contact.

Sommario:

THE ROMAN MAGISTERIUM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM THE VATICAN ARCHIVES
edited by Claus Arnold and Giovanni Vian

The Roman Magisterium in the Twentieth Century: New Perspectives from the Vatican Archives
The Case of Karl Rahner and the Aspect of Contingency
Claus Arnold

La ‘fabbrica’ delle encicliche
Il processo redazionale delle encicliche pacelliane e le fonti per la sua ricostruzione (1939-58)
Alejandro Mario Dieguez

Nel solco della tradizione: il Sant’Uffizio custode della fede e dei costumi durante il Pontificato di Pio XII
Manuela Barbolla

Le dossier Humani generis du Saint-Office
Étienne Fouilloux

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, cible insaisissable du Saint-Office (1931-50)
Mercè Prats

«L’Enciclica Pascendi dei tempi moderni»
Il progetto per l’ultima enciclica di Pio XII (1956-58)
Sabine Schratz, Daniele Premoli

Comment promouvoir la paix après la bombe atomique ?
Un projet inabouti d’encyclique (août-novembre 1945)
Augustin Laffay

The Holy See and the Question of Sending Observers to the World Conferences of the International Ecumenical Movement
Saretta Marotta

Otto Karrer e il Sant’Uffizio
Dominik Heringer

Did Pius XII Change a Dogma in 1947?
The Apostolic Constitution Sacramentum ordinis and its Underestimated Potential
Matthias Daufratshofer

“Si vuol cambiar tutto, si critica tutto”
The Holy Office and Catholic Bible Exegesis after Divino afflante Spiritu (1943)
Michael Pfister

La Situationsethik attraverso le carte del Sant’Uffizio (1951-58)
Federico Ferrari

Concluding Remarks: The Magisterium of Pius XII in a Historical Perspective
Klaus Unterburger

Qualche nota e interrogativo intorno a nuove prospettive di ricerca sul magistero romano a metà Novecento
Giovanni Vian