Pohled na konkláve a volbu papeže Pia XI. z československé perspektivy
The conclave and election of Pope Pius XI as a significant milestone in Czechoslovak-Vatican relations

Summary/Abstract: ŠMÍD, Marek. The conclave and election of Pope Pius XI as a significant milestone in Czechoslovak-Vatican relations. Historický časopis, 2015, 63, 1, pp. 137-150, Bratislava. The study The conclave and election of Pope Pius XI as a significant milestone in Czechoslovak-Vatican relations focuses on the last weeks of the pontificate of Benedict XV and the first weeks of the pontificate of Pius XI in the context of the dynamic development in post-war Europe. The author analyses the personalities of the two popes, their spiritual and political actions. His main interest reflects the period from mid-January to mid-February 1922, when Pope Benedict XV died, his funeral was held and the new assembly of cardinals me to choose his successor from among them. It was Pius XI who became the new Pope and carried on the policies of his predecessor, but he performed favourably against the two factions in the college of cardinals, liberal and conservative. His election was received with some trepidation in postwar Europe, but the course of subsequent events confirmed his heading. The Pope’s first steps were directed towards opening up the Church, both in the form of missions in Africa and in the Eucharistic Congress in Rome. The Pope’s criticism of the authoritarian and totalitarian movements resulted in the publication of numerous encyclicals in the 1930s, from which the most significant are undoubtedly Mit brennender Sorge and Divini Redemptoris from 1937. Pope Pius XI is today considered one of the most important popes of the 20th century.

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