Romolo Murri

Romolo Murri (Monte San Pietrangeli, 27 August 1870 – Roma, 12 March 1944) was an Italian politician and ecclesiastic. This Catholic priest was suspended for having joined the party Lega Democratica Nazionale and is widely considered in Italy as the precursor of Christian democracy.

Romolo Murri

In 1894 was a promoter of the FUCI, in 1901 of Democrazia Cristiana Italiana and in 1905 of Lega Democratica Nazionale. He founded the publications "Vita nova" (1895),[1] "Cultura sociale" (1898),[2] "Il domani d'Italia" (1901), "Rivista di cultura" (1906), "Il commento" (1910).

In strong controversy, therefore, with the ecclesiastical hierarchies (following numerous appeals and as many acts of submission), he was finally suspended a divinis in 1907 and after founded the National Democratic League, being a candidate in the elections of 1909, in the lists of the Lega Democratica Nazionale, being elected to the Chamber of the deputies, he was excommunicated in 1909[3] and married in 1912 in Rome with Ragnhild Lund, daughter of the former president of Lagting (the upper house of the Norwegian Parliament), with whom he had a son. He was devoted himself to journalism and in 1943 reconciled with the Church, but Pius XII having demanded of him no disavowal of his past social and political positions.[4]

Works

In addition to the numerous writings in the aforementioned periodicals in which he participated, Murri wrote some essays.

  • Catholic Conservatives and Christian Democrats, 1900
  • Class organization and professional unions, 1901
  • Battles of today, 1901-1904 [collection of articles published in «Cultura Sociale»]
  • Social Summary, 1906
  • Clerical politics and democracy, Cesaro, Ascoli Piceno, 1908
  • Spain and the Vatican, Milan, Treves Brothers, 1911
  • War profiles, Milan: Italian Publishing Institute, 1917
  • From Christian Democracy to the Italian Popular Party, 1920
  • The ideal conquest of the state, Milan: Imperia, 1923
  • Faith and Fascism, Rome, 1924
  • The contemporary spiritual crisis. Origins - Orientations, 1932
  • Cavour, Rome: Formiggini, 1936
  • The universal idea of Rome, Milan: Bompiani, 1937
  • The Christian Message and History, 1943

References
  1. University newspaper that supported the FUCI work. On occasion of the Catholic congress of Fiesole in 1986, the magazine direction and the FUCI organization itself were removed from Murri. cf. Gabriella Fanello Marcucci, Storia della FUCI, Studium, Roma, 1971.
  2. The foundation of this newspaper, announced by Murri, its main inspiration, to the Catholic congress of Milan in 1987, was a response to the recently founded magazine of the socialists "Critica sociale". The first number of "Cultura sociale", in which Don Sturzo also collaborated, was printed in Fermo in 1898.
  3. "PRIEST EXCOMMUNICATED.; Father Murri, Leader of Italian Catholic Democrats, Cut off by Church". The New York Times. 23 March 1909.
  4. "ROMOLO MURRI - Encyclopædia Universalis". Archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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