Autore
Marzano, Marco

Titolo
The Catholic Church and the challenge of the pandemic
Periodico
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 268 - Pagina finale: 277

The paper analyzes how the Italian Catholic Church has dealt with the lockdownmade necessary by the Covid-19 pandemic. For over two months, allcelebrations and pastoral activities were of suspended, thus creating a difficultsituation for the Catholic Church, since the collective moments of thesacraments are central to the religious life of Catholics. As a result of a brief,but intense, ethnographic research study, I have specified three general attitudescharacterizing the response of Catholics to the quarantine: suspension,reproduction, and replacement. Suspension consisted in the interruption of allactivities pending a return to normal, while reproduction was an attempt toreproduce normal liturgical activity on the Internet (in particular on Facebookand YouTube). The replacement was the most creative and original activityand consisted in the attempt, proposed by a minority of progressive Catholics,to create new rituals more suited to the situation and reflecting many of thepost-council Vatican II theological acquisitions.



SICI: 1973-3194(2020)2<268:TCCATC>2.0.ZU;2-9
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