L. COURTOIS, Godefroid Kurth, de l’intransigeantisme catholique à la démocratie chrétienne : itinéraire d’un intégraliste,

Courtois, Luc
(2016) Dixième Congrès de l’Association des cercles francophones d’histoire et d’ar-chéologie de Belgique (ACFHAB)–LVIIe Congrès de la — Location: Arlon18, 19 et 20 août 2016 (18.August.2016)

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(en) An uncompromising Ultramontane dreaming of a restoration of medieval Christianity, Kurth will be no less, like Umberto Benigni in Italy, a promoter of critical history and, contrary to the latter, who will evolve towards fundamentalism, a pioneer of Christian democracy. Paradox? In fact, for a long time, the history of Christian Democracy was based on a misunderstanding, in the sense that the will of commitment of this movement in the parliamentary field had led its first historians to include it in the filiation of Catholicism. liberal. In fact, foreign to liberal Catholicism, Christian democracy was born in the ultramontane environment, that of the rejection of the Revolution and liberalism, that of Mirari Vos and the Syllabus. Eyes fixed on the medieval golden age, it is literally reactionary: its project is to restore the Christian social order destroyed by 1789, but - and this is its originality - relying not more about a Catholic prince, but about the masses that must be reconquered. In this, it belongs to the "uncompromising" trend, a concept borrowed from the Italian political-religious history ("intransigenti").
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Courtois, L. (2016). L. COURTOIS, Godefroid Kurth, de l’intransigeantisme catholique à la démocratie chrétienne : itinéraire d’un intégraliste,. [Bulletin trimestriel de Institut archéologique du Luxembourg - Arlon], 92(HS), 52. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/49562 (Original work published 2016)