Liberal Catholic movements embedded bourgeois liberal assumptions before disappearing after 1870.
Evidence
Liberal catholic movements developed in several European countries— France, Belgium, Italy, England, etc in the early and mid-nineteenth century. In Italy they included notably the neo-Guelphs (see note 9 on p. 58 ). Their common ideological basis was an acceptance of the main body of bourgeois liberal thought at the time. In Italy, after the blow of the Pope’s withdrawal to the Lateran in 1870, liberal Catholicism more or less disappeared, but as Gramsci points out it can be seen as a precursor of the “Modernist” movement (see following note). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1882
Categorization
- XREF: Offers a historical parallel for later Islamophobia readings on ‘liberal Islam’ movements accepting the dominant secular-liberal frame while seeking accommodation. — connects to: Liberal Catholic movements accepted bourgeois liberal thought while remaining Catholic.; Catholic lay movements were suppressed and later reborn as mass political parties. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2472
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Liberal Catholic movements accepted bourgeois liberal thought while remaining Catholic.; Catholic lay movements were suppressed and later reborn as mass political parties. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2472