Catholics and Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

Introduction

1. The mystique of sacrifice and political violence

Passion and resurrection in Ireland

Doctrine, public opinion, and politics

A war waged by saints

Squadrismo, violence, and obedience

2. Tradition and rebellion in Mexico

Against the secular state

Hard-line rebels

'Cristeros'

In defence of the faith

3. Sacralized insurrection

Crusade and terror in Spain

A universal struggle in a national battleground

The Church in combat

El derecho a la rebeldia

Holy war and the Holy Office

4. Revolution and incitement to hatred: the deliberations of Rome during total war

The battle between devils

The truly Catholic war

The heresy of hatred

5. Holy war during the Cold War

Not revolution, but war

A crusade to save Hungary?

Global mobilization

Discrimination and disadvantage

6. Latin America and revolution as an obligation

Armed charity from sociology to guerrilla warfare

Transatlantic circulation of ideas

Theology and revolution

Violence by the peace-lovers and the mystique of guerrilla warfare

From liberation to human rights

7. Words and deeds

The increasing disconnection

A Catholic element in the origins of the Red Brigades?

Division and infiltration

The beginning of the end

The 'Sands bomb'

8. Rwanda: colonialism and its legacy

A 'Catholic country' in central Africa

The Church during the revolution

Construction of 'the enemy within'

Complicity and silence

9. The end of the revolution?

Rosaries, not bullets: the Aquino 'miracl' in the Philippines

Lights in the East and the 'morality of means'

Ambivalende and the peace process in the Basque Country

Democracy and policies of terror: Peru's tragic twenty years

Armed for life: anti-abortion attacks in the United States

Conclusions