Vaticanology
English
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Etymology
editVatican + -ology, coined by British Catholic theologian Charles Davis in 1957 in analogy to Kremlinology.[1]
Noun
editVaticanology (uncountable)
- the study of the politics, decisions and functioning of the Vatican
Derived terms
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editstudy 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.”