Les catholiques belges face à la crise du pouvoir temporel de la papauté (1859-1870). Une mobilisation au cœur de l’Internationale catholique

International audience ; The crisis of the papacy's temporal power in the 1860s led to a vast mobilisation of Catholics in Europe. This article examines the form that this mobilisation took in one of the countries where it was strongest: Belgium. Dominated by lay people, the Belgian movement took advantage of the freedoms guaranteed by the country's constitution to build a solid organisation. This enabled it to mobilise a large part of society, as shown by the success of the recruitment of the Pontifical Zouaves and the St Peter’s pence. These results and the many contacts that Belgian Catholi... Mehr ...