Vaticanology
English edit
Etymology edit
Vatican + -ology, coined by British Catholic theologian Charles Davis in 1957 in analogy to Kremlinology.[1]
Noun edit
Vaticanology (uncountable)
- the study of the politics, decisions and functioning of the Vatican
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
study of Vatican politics
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References edit
- ^ Charles Davis (1967 January 1) “Why I left the Roman Catholic Church”, in The Observer, page 21: “As for papal documents, I sometimes think there is need for a new science of Vaticanology, in order to discover which pressure groups have succeeded in getting their way and to interpret in the light of the current Roman background the more cryptic references to opinions vaguely reprobated.”