THE POLICY OF THE HOLY SEE IN THE POST-TRIDENTINE AGE: THE REACTION OF THE ROMAN CHURCH TO THE “CONCURRENT” CHURCHES (THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY-THE 17TH CENTURY)
THE POLICY OF THE HOLY SEE IN THE POST-TRIDENTINE AGE: THE REACTION OF THE ROMAN CHURCH TO THE “CONCURRENT” CHURCHES (THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY-THE 17TH CENTURY)

Summary/Abstract: The following research aims to outline the most important initiatives of the Holy See in what regards the European and extra-European policy, making mention of the emergence of a new type of spiritual, not territorial sovereignty, parallel and different from the statehood. Secondly, the study intends to analyse the way in which the maintenance of its own ministry, ministerium Petri, has been possible as well as the instruments used by the Holy See in order to protect the ŖCatholic causeŗ in a world where the authority has been submitted to a local disintegration to the detriment of the territorial consolidation of the modern states. Finally, the present analysis proposes to emphasize the renewal of the exigencies related to the reformation of the discipline and the ecclesiastical structures within the Roman Curia, the Holy See focusing again on the internal problems, undertaking initiatives of reformatio Ecclesiae and oscillating efforts of redistributing the roles to various institutional components.

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