Money and the rise of the modern papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950
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Money and the rise of the modern papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950
Cambridge University Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p, 234-244) and index
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Description
This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard, a leading historian of the modern papacy, shows how until 1929 the papacy was largely funded by 'Peter's Pence' collected from the faithful, and from the residue the Vatican made its first capitalistic investments, especially in the ill-fated Banco di Roma. After 1929, the Vatican received much of its income from the investments made by the banker Bernadino Nogara in world markets and commercial enterprises. This process of coming to terms with capitalism was arguably in conflict both with Church law and Catholic social teaching and becoming a major financial power led the Vatican into conflict with the Allies during the Second World War. In broader terms, the ways in which the papacy financed itself helped shape the overall development of the modern papacy.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The reign of Pius IX: Vatican finances before and after the fall of Rome (1850-1878)
- 3. The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- 4. Vatican finances under the 'Peasant Pope', Pius X (1903-1914)
- 5. 'The great charitable lord'?: Vatican finances under Benedict XV (1914-1922)
- 6. 'Economical and prudent bourgeois'?: Pius XI, 1922-1929
- 7. The Wall Street crash and Vatican finances in the early 1930s
- 8. Vatican finances in an age of global consolidation, 1933-1939
- 9. Vatican finances in the reign of Pius XII: the Second World War and the early Cold War, 1939-1950
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
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