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Sainthood vs. Nationhood: The Beatification Causes of Schuman and De Gasperi

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Bar offers an East-Central European perspective on the first postwar generation of Western European Christian Democrats, among whom one finds the proverbial “founding fathers” of a united Europe. By systematically reconstructing the criteria used by the Catholic Church in determining whether or not to beatify Christian Democratic politicians like Alcide De Gasperi and Robert Schuman, Bar makes clear that Christian Democracy has been as much about faith as about policy, and that its legacy has been substantially shaped by the late Polish pope John Paul II. Moreover, Bar’s conclusions illuminate the well-honed criteria that today’s East-Central Europeans have at their disposal for assessing how Europe has fared relative to the intentions of its “founders.”

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Bar, W. (2018). Sainthood vs. Nationhood: The Beatification Causes of Schuman and De Gasperi. In: Kosicki, P., Łukasiewicz, S. (eds) Christian Democracy Across the Iron Curtain. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64087-7_5

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