The Holy See and the Global Environmental Movements
Laudato Si has garnered acclaim from world leaders and actors who support care for the environment. The encyclical has received praise for its ability to communicate the Church’s environmental views to the secular world.
Theodore Lai, Cecilia Tortajada
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The Holy See’s Contemporary Foreign Policy: Origins, Methods, Instruments
In this essay, the author made an attempt to study the origins, functions and vectors of papal diplomacy, focusing on its transformation in the conditions of the modern political system, to analyze the main social principles on which the foreign policy ...
E. O. Shebalina
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The Holy See and Fyodor Dostoevsky: Mutual Attraction and Repulsion
The article analyzes the attitude of Fyodor Dostoevsky toward the Roman Catholic Church. The author shows how Dostoevsky comes to the Slavophile idea of unity and the impossibility of salvation outside church communion, while speaking of the Church as an
Elena Besschetnova
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'The Pope's own hand outstretched': Holy See diplomacy as a hybrid mode of diplomatic agency. [PDF]
The unconventional nature of Holy See diplomats rests in the composite character of their ecclesiastical role as the Pope’s representatives and their legal diplomatic status and commencement to ordinary diplomatic practice.
Troy J.
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A Unique Relationship Between Indonesia and the Holy See on Interfaith Cooperation
Objective: This study aims to determine the results of the functionalization of the 1929 Lateran Treaty and Law Number 37 of 1999 concerning Foreign Relations in fostering relations between the Holy See and Indonesia on interfaith dialogue cooperation.
Agustinus Supriyanto
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The power politics of the Holy See: the church, the state, and its citizens
This paper examines the Holy See as a political actor amid hard power conflict. While many debate the legal and religious personalities of the Holy See, few engage with an approach that illustrates the Holy See and its citizen-like laity in light of ...
Bryan P. Kelly
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The 2003 draft Agreement between the Holy See and Georgia and future prospects for cooperation
In 2002, Georgia and the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalic Orthodox Church signed the Constitutional Agreement, which established a new legal model of the state–church relationship.
Dimitry Gegenava
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The Holy See: An Institution Like No Other
This paper explores the Holy See’s role within the international order of states. Although viewed primarily as a religious institution, the Holy See’s position as a sovereign state and head of a religious body allows it to have a prominent voice on the ...
Jace Bartz
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The Holy See and the European Union: Legal Regulation of Relations
The author sets the goal to study the nature and system of regulation of relations between the Holy See and the European Union, as well as to odentify the main problems and trends in the further development and improvement of the legal regulation of ...
N. G. Ishchenk
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A Long Way to the Lateran Treaty: Diplomatic Relations between the Holy See and Italy from the Rise of Fascism to the Conclusion of the Lateran Treaty [PDF]
The study deals with the diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Fascist Italy over the period of 1922–1929. In the period of the dramatic events in the 1920s, it follows up on the final phase of the so-called Rome question, which was opened after ...
Petra Votavová -Marek Šmíd
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