Proefschrift--Utrecht.

This dissertation focuses on the diocese of Linz in the Habsburg Monarchy during the second half of the nineteenth century, examining how the Roman Catholic Church and its priests adapted to and confronted the broad set of modernizing forces that were shaping the world around them against the backdrop of rising Ultramontanism within the Church. The study is divided into three sections. The first section explores the structural and ideological transformation of the Catholic Church in Upper Austria in this period. With a focus on the clergy, it examines the changing networks and structures of religious life; it investigates how the diocese changed under the watch of Bishop Franz Josef Rudigier (1853-1884) and Franz Maria Doppelbauer (1889-1908), and also under the influence of Ultramontanism. The second section examines the confrontation with liberalism. It begins in the 1850s, exploring how two events - the building of a general hospital in Linz and the burial of a prominent Protestant in a small town - inform our understanding of the dynamics of Catholic-liberal conflict in 1850s Austria. Next it turns to the height of the Austrian Kulturkampf between 1867 and 1875, exploring, how liberals and Catholic-conservatives presented a social vision that used the active exclusion of the 'other' to define itself. The third section shifts from liberalism to socialism, and from a study of the rise of Ultramontanism to that of Ultramontanism in practice. Examining Catholic responses to the social question, the study argues that Ultramontanism created its own internal set of contradictions when converted into policy, especially after the publication of the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum. Instead of bringing the different elements together within the Church, the encyclical had the opposite effect; each group began to interpret the document in different ways and to act accordingly, effectively demolishing the image of Catholic unity that existed around Ultramontanism.

Orientador: Izabel Andrade Marson / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T05:05:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Domingos_SimoneTiago_D.pdf: 2432825 bytes, checksum: cbe3b605ef6a092476a5c547859c2954 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Em seus primeiros anos de retorno ao Brasil, os jesuítas se instalaram, primeiramente, em Desterro, a capital de Santa Catarina, para a fundação de um colégio que funcionou até meados de 1855. Em 1867, além da criação de um segundo colégio naquela cidade, obtiveram licença para abrir dois outros estabelecimentos: o primeiro em Itu ¿ o Colégio São Luís, hoje ainda em atividade na capital de São Paulo ¿ e outro em Recife, o São Francisco Xavier, que permaneceu aberto até 1874. O objetivo principal dessa tese é historiar e explicitar as experiências de fixação dos jesuítas no Império (entre as décadas de 1840 e 1870), destacando nesse percurso as dificuldades por eles encontradas, os meios pelos quais se defenderam e, sobretudo, a polêmica que se instaurou sobre o retorno da Ordem, particularmente nas províncias em que tiveram instituições de ensino ¿ Santa Catarina, S. Paulo e Pernambuco. Assim, a tese aborda a história dos inacianos no Império (entre as décadas de 1840 e 1870) e também tem por preocupação relacionar o debate ocorrido no Brasil à discussão internacional que se estabeleceu sobre a Companhia de Jesus. Para tanto, além de explorar a bibliografia existente sobre a Ordem e sobre a política imperial do período, analisa significativo conjunto de matérias publicadas em jornais de expressão que circularam nas citadas províncias. Explora ainda debates em fóruns políticos importantes, em destaque as Assembleias Provinciais e Geral. O intuito foi retomar a argumentação que sustentou a discussão sobre a presença dos jesuítas no Brasil e sua associação com os principais problemas da política imperial naquele período, a exemplo da imigração estrangeira, da liberdade religiosa, dos conflitos entre o clero nacional e o clero ultramontano, das relações entre o Estado monárquico e a Igreja / Abstract: During their first years after they had come back to Brazil, the Jesuits set up their order first in Desterro, the capital of Santa Catarina, where they founded a school which worked until mid-1855. In 1867, besides the creation of the second school in that city, the order got the permission to open two other establishments: the first one in Itu ¿ Colégio São Luís, that is still working but now in the capital of São Paulo ¿ and another one in Recife, São Francisco Xavier, that closed in 1874. The main purpose of this thesis is to relate and to make explicit the Jesuits¿ settlement experiences during the Empire (between 1840s and 1870s), highlighting the difficulties faced by them during that process, the ways they used to defend themselves, and, above all, the polemic created by the return of the religious order, especially in the provinces where the educational institutes were built, e.g. Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Pernambuco. This thesis discusses the history of Ignatians in the Empire (between 1840s and 1870s) as well as linking the discussions which occurred in Brazil with the existing international debate about the Jesuit Order. To this end, besides the examination of the existing bibliography about the Order and about the politics of the Empire at that time, this thesis analyzes a significant set of newspapers which had an expressive broadcast in the provinces mentioned before. This research also explores the debates that happened in important political spaces, in special General and Provincial Assemblies. The aim was to rediscuss the argumentation that supported the debate about the presence of the Jesuits in Brazil and their association with the main political problems faced by the Empire at that moment, for example, foreign immigration, religious freedom, the conflicts between national clergy and ultramontanist clergy and the relation between the monarchal State and the Church / Doutorado / Politica, Memoria e Cidade / Doutora em História

Le début du XVIIIe siècle est marqué par l’arrivée de la bulle Unigenitus dans le royaume de France. Les évêques sont chargés de recevoir ce décret romain tout en protégeant au maximum les libertés de l’Église gallicane. Comment l’épiscopat a-t-il réagi aux bouleversements introduits par cette Constitution? Formés à l’école de la modération, les prélats sont gallicans et obéissent aux désirs du roi sans réserve, car leur carrière dépend de la bonne volonté du monarque. Sièges épiscopaux, promotions, cardinalat tout est soumis à ses décisions. La Bulle pose de nombreux problèmes ecclésiologiques en voulant imposer l’infaillibilité pontificale. Les évêques de France se révèlent alors profondément gallicans et partisans de la modération. Protecteurs de leurs prérogatives, ils souhaitent se tenir éloignés autant des nouveautés romaines que des excès richéristes. Dans la gestion des diocèses, ils sont les tenants d’un rigorisme pénitentiel qui se marque par une défense de la contrition et l’éloignement du laxisme sacramentel en matière de communion. Ils sont aussi partisans d’une clarification de la liturgie pour rendre le culte compréhensible aux fidèles. Cependant, toutes les décisions pastorales doivent être prises avec mesure et sans jamais contredire les choix du roi et de son gouvernement. Même si Rome a parlé, la cause n’est pas finie. La controverse s’étire durant près de cinquante ans. L’épiscopat de France est rigoriste, gallican et composé d’hommes alliant des qualités intellectuelles et administratives remarquables. La bulle Unigenitus a donc permis l’émergence d’une réflexion sur le rôle de l’évêque dans l’Église. Les révolutionnaires de 1789 s’en souviendront. / The advent of the Unigenitus bull into the kingdom of France marked the outset of the 18th century. Bishops were in charge of enforcing this Roman decree while protecting a maximum of liberties for the Gallican Church at the same time. How did the episcopate react in front of the upheaval brought by this new Constitution? Schooled in moderation, the prelates were Gallican so they unreservedly complied with the king’s wishes, since their careers depended on the Monarch’s good will. Sees, promotions, cardinalships, everything was hung on his decisions. The Bull raised numerous ecclesiological difficulties as it laid down the rule of papal infallibility. On this occasion, the bishops of France revealed their deeply Gallican and moderate characters. In order to protect their prerogatives they wished to keep as much away from Roman novelties as from Richerist excesses. To direct their dioceses they favoured a penitential rigour that was characterised by the defense of contrition and a distance from sacramental laxity in the Holy Communion. They also stood for liturgical clarification to make worship more understandable to their congregations. Yet every pastoral decision had to be carefully measured so that it would never conflict with the choice of the King and his government. Even though Rome had spoken, the case was not closed. The controversy was carried on for about fifty years. The French episcopate was Gallican and composed of men who united remarkable intellectual and administrative abilities. Thus the Unigenitus bull provided an opportunity to question the part played by bishops in the Church. The 1789 revolutionists would remember that.

L’objet de ce travail est l’établissement de l’édition critique du manuscrit des Nouvelles ecclésiastiques pour le XIXe siècle resté inédit, rédigé par l’ancien oratorien Jean-Louis Rondeau, prêtre assermenté, secrétaire de l’abbé Grégoire et membre du clergé de Saint-Séverin de 1801 jusqu’à son décès en 1832. Ce texte se veut la continuation des Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques du XVIIIe siècle, feuille périodique du mouvement janséniste d’une infinie richesse. Mais plus qu’un journal, c’est un témoignage qui prend la forme d’une chronique partisane sur les affaires ecclésiastiques du temps, un gigantesque kaléidoscope reflétant les intérêts et les convictions de celui qui, patiemment, du Mexique à Constantinople, de Naples à Londres, de Saint-Pétersbourg à Madrid, de Paris à Rome, a pendant des années scruté un monde en mutation. Durant deux décennies, l’auteur a méticuleusement passé au « crible janséniste » les événements et les écrits de son temps, a rassemblé informations et notes de lecture, articles de presse et on-dit, avec l’ambition de suivre l’histoire européenne, et même mondiale, sous l’angle rarement étudié d’une histoire religieuse globale. Il nous livre ainsi une passionnante évocation de ce premier XIXe siècle à travers une lecture janséniste et nettement libérale des polémiques religieuses de son temps. / The matter of this work is the manuscript scholarly edition of the Nouvelles écclésiastiques pour le XIXe siècle, that still remains unpublished. It was written by the former oratorian Jean-Louis Rondeau: a juror priest, the abbé Grégoire secretary and member of the Saint-Séverin parish from 1801 till his death in 1832. This text is willing to be the continuation of the Nouvelles Ecclésiastiques from the XVIII century, an immeasurably rich periodical paper published by the jansenist movement. More than a diary, this is an account that takes the form of a partisan chronicle about the ecclesiastical affairs, a huge kaleidoscope reflecting interests and convictions from the one who patiently, from Mexico to Constantinople, Naples to London, Saint-Petersburg to Madrid, Paris to Rome, has scrutinised during years a world in mutation. During two decades, the author, with a jansenist look, has sifted out the events and writings of his time. He has assembled information, reading notes, press articles and hearsays with the ambition of following the European and Worldwide history under the rarely studied outlook of the global religious history. Thus he delivers a passionate evocation on the early XIX century through a jansenist and a clearly liberal reading of the religious polemics of his time.

Esta dissertação, inserida na linha de pesquisa de Política e Cultura, trata da visão crítica de Eça de Queiroz sobre a Igreja Católica, sobre o catolicismo popular e a relação Igreja-Estado em Portugal do século XIX. O trabalho aprofunda as idéias do autor estabelecidas no momento histórico do chamado movimento da Regeneração, na segunda metade do século, marcado por propostas de denúncias da decadência da sociedade e de mudanças e reformas modernizantes nas estruturas econômicas, sociais, políticas educacionais e culturais do país. Analisa questões relevantes ligadas à política da época como o liberalismo monárquico, a política do estado constitucional português, a política ultramontana do Vaticano e seus desdobramentos em Portugal, além do catolicismo institucionalizado nas práticas políticas e culturais. A partir de fontes primárias como os trabalhos jornalísticos do autor, publicados no Brasil e em Portugal, assim como cartas para seus amigos intelectuais da chamada Geração 70, aborda questões como o anticlericalismo, antijesuitismo, Padroado, regalismo e o projeto cultural português de secularização. Observando o extremo espírito perspicaz e sarcástico do autor, o trabalho conclui por entender o escritor como forte defensor de reformas nas práticas, discursos e preocupações da Igreja Católica de seu tempo, assim como voz exigente e consonante a outros intelectuais da época em prol de novo comprometimento e atuação dessa mesma Igreja. Por fim, estabelece o autor como um expoente entre a intelectualidade por ser protagonista de um movimento de renovação política e cultural, como catalisador da opinião pública de seu tempo, e acima de tudo, autor de uma obra de relevância literária e jornalística, capaz de impor-se como efetiva proposta inovadora para a modernidade portuguesa da época. / This dissertation, insert on the research segment of Politics and Culture, talks about Eça de Queirozs critical vision about the Catholic Church, the popular catholicism and the Church-State relations in Portugal on the XIX century. The work deepens authors ideas determined in the historical moment named the movement of Regeneration, on the second half of that century, marked by propositions of denunciation concerning to societys decadence, the changes and modernizing reforms in the economic, social, political, educational and cultural structures of Portugal. It also analyses relevant issues relates to politics as the monarchical liberalism, the policy of the portuguese constitucional government, the policy taken by the ultramontanist Vatican and its developments in Portugal, beyond the catholicism established on cultural and political practices. From the use of original sources as journalisticals works wrotten by Eça, published in Brazil and in Portugal, and also examing his letters to his intellectual friends from the 70s Generation , the dissertation argues questions like anticlericalism, antijesuitism, portuguese padroado, regalism and the portuguese cultural project in order to convert Portugal in a secular state government. Observing the extraordinary, acute and sarcastic Eças intelligence, this work conclude for understanding the writer as a great protector of changes in the clerical customs, speechs and concerns of the Catholic Church at that time and also as an exacting voice connected with others intellectuals to the advance of a new performance and engagement of the Catholic Church. At last, this work determines the portuguese author as an great expert among the portuguese intellectuals because he was one of the fundamental protagonists in the cultural and political renovation movement of Portugal influencing its public opinion. He was, as well, a writer of an important and decisive literary and journalist work and, mainly, he was able to impose himself as a real promoter of the modernity in Portugal.

Esta dissertação, inserida na linha de pesquisa de Política e Cultura, trata da visão crítica de Eça de Queiroz sobre a Igreja Católica, sobre o catolicismo popular e a relação Igreja-Estado em Portugal do século XIX. O trabalho aprofunda as idéias do autor estabelecidas no momento histórico do chamado movimento da Regeneração, na segunda metade do século, marcado por propostas de denúncias da decadência da sociedade e de mudanças e reformas modernizantes nas estruturas econômicas, sociais, políticas educacionais e culturais do país. Analisa questões relevantes ligadas à política da época como o liberalismo monárquico, a política do estado constitucional português, a política ultramontana do Vaticano e seus desdobramentos em Portugal, além do catolicismo institucionalizado nas práticas políticas e culturais. A partir de fontes primárias como os trabalhos jornalísticos do autor, publicados no Brasil e em Portugal, assim como cartas para seus amigos intelectuais da chamada Geração 70, aborda questões como o anticlericalismo, antijesuitismo, Padroado, regalismo e o projeto cultural português de secularização. Observando o extremo espírito perspicaz e sarcástico do autor, o trabalho conclui por entender o escritor como forte defensor de reformas nas práticas, discursos e preocupações da Igreja Católica de seu tempo, assim como voz exigente e consonante a outros intelectuais da época em prol de novo comprometimento e atuação dessa mesma Igreja. Por fim, estabelece o autor como um expoente entre a intelectualidade por ser protagonista de um movimento de renovação política e cultural, como catalisador da opinião pública de seu tempo, e acima de tudo, autor de uma obra de relevância literária e jornalística, capaz de impor-se como efetiva proposta inovadora para a modernidade portuguesa da época. / This dissertation, insert on the research segment of Politics and Culture, talks about Eça de Queirozs critical vision about the Catholic Church, the popular catholicism and the Church-State relations in Portugal on the XIX century. The work deepens authors ideas determined in the historical moment named the movement of Regeneration, on the second half of that century, marked by propositions of denunciation concerning to societys decadence, the changes and modernizing reforms in the economic, social, political, educational and cultural structures of Portugal. It also analyses relevant issues relates to politics as the monarchical liberalism, the policy of the portuguese constitucional government, the policy taken by the ultramontanist Vatican and its developments in Portugal, beyond the catholicism established on cultural and political practices. From the use of original sources as journalisticals works wrotten by Eça, published in Brazil and in Portugal, and also examing his letters to his intellectual friends from the 70s Generation , the dissertation argues questions like anticlericalism, antijesuitism, portuguese padroado, regalism and the portuguese cultural project in order to convert Portugal in a secular state government. Observing the extraordinary, acute and sarcastic Eças intelligence, this work conclude for understanding the writer as a great protector of changes in the clerical customs, speechs and concerns of the Catholic Church at that time and also as an exacting voice connected with others intellectuals to the advance of a new performance and engagement of the Catholic Church. At last, this work determines the portuguese author as an great expert among the portuguese intellectuals because he was one of the fundamental protagonists in the cultural and political renovation movement of Portugal influencing its public opinion. He was, as well, a writer of an important and decisive literary and journalist work and, mainly, he was able to impose himself as a real promoter of the modernity in Portugal.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-10-24T11:30:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tatianacostacoelho.pdf: 700743 bytes, checksum: c7264e3898ec7ff7d254b36c624529ee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-12-15T11:51:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 tatianacostacoelho.pdf: 700743 bytes, checksum: c7264e3898ec7ff7d254b36c624529ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-15T11:51:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tatianacostacoelho.pdf: 700743 bytes, checksum: c7264e3898ec7ff7d254b36c624529ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-16 / O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar a ala da Igreja Católica denominada ultramontana ou romanizadora na figura de Dom Viçoso, Bispo de Mariana, bem como seu discurso e projeto de sociedade para o século XIX. Para isso, o corte cronológico desse trabalho vai de 1844, ano em que Dom Viçoso assume o Bispado em Mariana e termina em 9 1875, ano de sua morte e fim da Questão Religiosa. Dessa forma, tratarei a Questão Religiosa não apenas como um conflito entre maçons e católicos que abalou a década de 70 do século XIX, e sim um movimento mais amplo, uma vez que esse esteve presente desde a primeira parte do século em questão. Através da leitura dos jornais O Bom Ladrão e Selecta Catholica, podemos perceber que, esse bispo almejava, com a criação de uma imprensa na região de Mariana, modificar a moral e os costumes da população. Foi durante seu Bispado, um verdadeiro “parque editorial” de jornais pregadores dos ideais tridentinos com uma periodicidade quinzenal. Além disso, pudemos analisar cartas pastorais que tiveram o mesmo valor de catequização e as missões pastorais serviram para que essa catequização se efetivasse com mais intensidade. Nos escritos de Dom Viçoso pudemos perceber livros defendendo o fim da escravidão negra, considerada por esse bispo como uma “mácula” na sociedade brasileira que deveria ser expurgado. Enfim, pode-se concluir que, Dom Viçoso possuía um projeto de modernidade abarcando toda a população e, usava da imprensa para divulgá-los. / This work’s objective is to analyze the Catholic Church’s wing denominated ultramontane or romanized in the figure of Don Viçoso, bishop of Mariana,as well as his discourse and project of society for the XIX century. The chronological cut of this work goes through 1844, year that Dom Viçoso took on the bishopric in Mariana, and stops in 10 1875, his death year and end of the Religious Question. Thus, I will treat the Religious Question not only as a conflict between masons and catholics that shook the decade of 70 in the century of XIX, but as a wider movement, since this was present from the first part of that century. Through the reading of the newspapers O Bom Ladrão and Selecta Catholica we can realize that this bishop longed to modify moral and customs of the population with the foundation of press in Mariana. Thereby, it was created during his bishopric, a real “editorial park” of newspapers preaching tridentine ideals with a fortnight periodicity, besides books defending the end of black slavery, considered for this bishop as a “stain” in Brazilian society which should be purged. Finally, we can conclude that, Dom Viçoso had a project of modernity covering all the population and used the press to disclose it.

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Propõe-se a entender como a religiosidade praticada no país foi compreendida e apropriada pelos redentoristas, que serviam a um determinado projeto da Igreja. Defende que, ao invés de proporem o silenciamento e/ou a completa anulação de práticas religiosas heterodoxas e exteriorizadas de vivência da fé, e a sua consequente substituição por um catolicismo com ampla valorização dos sacramentos e da ortodoxia católica, os redentoristas criaram códigos comunicativos que os permitiram dialogar tanto com o catolicismo ortodoxo quanto com as práticas exteriorizadas de manifestação da fé. As missões religiosas são aqui entendidas como movimentos extremamente plurais, nos quais diversas propostas de vivência religiosa se conectavam e se contaminavam, resultando em uma prática religiosa híbrida, que conjugava elementos da religiosidade popular com os da ortodoxia católica. Compreende os redentoristas como praticantes e proponentes de uma versão do ultramontanismo que deve ser interpretada de um modo mais plural, um processo que deixa margem para a sobrevivência de práticas religiosas populares na ortodoxia católica. O povo tem experiências e expectativas, e procura meios para implementá-las. Por mais que a Igreja e os redentoristas almejassem, com seu discurso, um catolicismo puramente sacramental, a prática deixava margem para apropriações variadas da ortodoxia, pois era vivida também pelo povo que a executava e imprimia nela grande parte dos seus anseios. A tese aqui demonstrada é que a atuação redentorista no Brasil envolvia expectativas tanto da Igreja quanto da Congregação, ambas com o mesmo grau de importância e relevância para o entendimento do evento. Os missionários tinham a compreensão de que serviam ao projeto romanizador do catolicismo brasileiro, mas interpretavam a missão do Brasil como um meio para exercerem atividades que não lhes era possível no continente europeu devido as políticas de Estado que limitavam a atuação missionária em suas regiões de origem. O Brasil era, para eles, a chance de viver uma religiosidade que não era possível de ser vivida por completa no Velho Mundo. / The work presented here is a study on the missionary activity of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer in Brazil from the 1890s through the 1920s, in the context of the Romanization of Brazilian Catholicism. The intent is to understand how the religiosity practiced in this country was understood and appropriated by the Redemptorists, who served a particular project of the Church. It is argued that, instead of proposing the silencing and/or complete annulment of heterodox and externalized religious practices of living the faith, and its consequent replacement by a Catholicism with a strong emphasis on the sacraments and on Catholic orthodoxy, the Redemptorists created rhetorical devices that allowed them to dialogue both with orthodox Catholicism and with externalized practices of manifestation of the faith. The religious missions are understood here as extremely plural movements, in which diverse proposals of religious experience were inter-connected and cross-contaminated, resulting in a hybrid religious practice that combined elements of popular religiosity with those of Catholic orthodoxy. The Redemptorists are seen as practitioners and proponents of a version of ultramontanism that should be interpreted in a more pluralistic way, a process that leaves room for the survival of popular religious practices in Catholic orthodoxy. People have experiences and expectations, and look for ways to put them into practice. As much as the Church and the Redemptorists desired, with their discourse, a purely sacramental Catholicism, the practice left room for various appropriations of orthodoxy, for it was lived also by the people who carried it out, imprinting great part of their aspirations on it. The thesis demonstrated here is that Redemptorist activity in Brazil involved expectations of both the Church and the Congregation, both with the same degree of importance and relevance. While the missionaries supposedly served the Romanizing project of Brazilian Catholicism, they interpreted the Brazilian Mission as a means to carry out activities that were not possible for them on the European continent due to state policies that limited missionary activity in their regions of origin. Brazil was, for them, the chance to live a religiosity that could not be fully lived in the Old World.

Cette thèse porte sur l’histoire de l’Église catholique romaine entre la fin du XVIIIe et les premières décennies du XIXe siècle. L’itinéraire du barnabite Francesco Luigi Fontana constitue un prisme pertinent pour éclairer d’un jour nouveau les dynamiques internes à la Curie romaine et les sensibilités des collaborateurs de Fontana, lesquelles permettent aussi d’expliquer les solutions apportées aux nombreuses questions intra- et extraecclésiales soumises à Rome. L’étude des prises de décisions fait apparaître une Curie non monolithique mais au sein de laquelle plusieurs solutions étaient envisagées avant l’adoption de celle définitive.Au-delà même de cette perspective, l’enjeu de la présente recherche est d’ordre méthodologique, s’agissant du type d’analyse à conduire et des catégories à adopter pour comprendre les prises de position intellectuelles, politiques et ecclésiologiques des membres de la Curie. Un autre questionnement a trait à l’exercice, qui fait l’objet de récents approfondissements historiographiques, de la biographie et en l’espèce de la figure d’un cardinal placé à la croisée de plusieurs thématiques majeures de la période considérée, interrogeant enfin certains éléments de continuité de l’histoire de la papauté et du catholicisme de la fin de l’époque moderne au début de la période contemporaine / This doctoral thesis is focused on the history of the Roman Church between the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th Century. Using Francesco Luigi Fontana’s biography, I will describe the ecclesiastical dynamics and the different sensibilities of the curiali (the members of the Roman Curia) who cooperated with the barnabite to find a solution for both intraecclesiali and extraecclesiali problems submitted to Rome from all over the world.Consequently I will outline the developments in policymaking, in order to represent a non-monolithic Roman Curia, in which –conversely– different solutions were examined before making a definitive political decision.Furthermore this doctoral thesis reflects upon the problems linked to the paradigm chosen and upon the opportunity to use a biography and the category of intransigenza –employed in this study to interpret the intellectual, political and ecclesiological opinions of the curiali– to determine the crucial issues and to identify the elements of continuity of ecclesiastical history.