Left Catholicism
Catholics & Society in Western Europe
at the Point of Liberation, 1943-1955

By Gerd-Rainer Horn & Emmanuel Gerard
August 2001
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 90-5867-093-7
320 Pages
$63.00 paper original

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During and following WW II, there were several Catholic left wing organizations in Italy,France and Belgium. The term 'left' refers to individual and collective attitudes and concepts which did not seem compatible with Catholic traditions.

There were Catholic pleas for social and economic reforms changing the balance between capital and labor. This is the first book to deal with the phenomenon from a comparative and transnational perspective.

History; Religious History; Politics
Kadoc Studies, No. 25

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