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Since the early 19th century, Vatican diplomacy has been the purview of the Papal Secretariat of State, the \u201cforeign relations\u201d branch of the Roman curia.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The beginning of modern Vatican foreign relations with Latin America should be dated to the Napoleonic wars in Europe and the movements for home rule in Spain\u2019s colonies. From 1810\u20131820, the papacy stood unwavering in its defense of Spanish absolutist claims to the peninsula and to its colonies. Latin American Independence shattered Spanish Royal Patronage and left a legacy of regalism in the region, with which the ultramontane papacy of the 19th century would contend. The professionalization of the Vatican diplomatic corps (1889\u20131914) conformed papal diplomacy to the norms of the international state system, incrementally increasing the political and spiritual legitimacy of the Holy See after its loss of temporal power to the Italian state, sparking the so-called \u201cRoman Question\u201d (1870\u20131929).<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>During the interwar period, Vatican policy centered on concordats and Catholic Action, evincing both a pragmatic approach to diplomacy and a highly regimented and non-party political model of lay activism. Mexico\u2019s Cristero Rebellion (1926\u20131929) represented the most strident conflict in the period, where Rome\u2019s concordat\/Catholic Action policy neither negotiated a durable modus vivendi nor managed to pacify radical lay Catholics until the 1940s. During the pontificate of Pius XII (1939\u20131958), a strident anti-communism marked the policy of the Holy See, aligning the Catholic Church in Latin America with conservatives and authoritarian leaders. After the Second Vatican Council (1962\u20131965), the policy of Ostpolitik guided diplomats towards rapprochement with communist and revolutionary states such as Cuba and Nicaragua.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>The end of the Cold War temporized the relationship between progressive sectors in the Latin American Church, which had been influenced by Liberation Theology, and the Vatican under John Paul II (1978\u20132005). A \u201cNew Evangelization\u201d campaign was heralded by Pope Benedict XVI (2005\u20132013). Argentine Jesuit and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio crafted many of the seminal documents for the New Evangelization. Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis in 2013, emphasized the socio-economic and the spiritual aspects of Vatican policy, bring issues of poverty, economic inequality, and justice to center stage, fostering a diplomacy of piccoli passi (small steps) and brokering improved relations between the United States and Cuba.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/acrefore\/9780199366439.013.40","type":"reference-entry","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,5,5]],"date-time":"2016-05-05T11:43:45Z","timestamp":1462448625000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Vatican Foreign Relations with Latin America since Independence"],"prefix":"10.1093","author":[{"given":"Stephen J C","family":"Andes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of History, Louisiana State University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","reference":[{"key":"2026072904470681700_acrefore-9780199366439-e-40-bibItem-0097","unstructured":"Papal Encyclicals 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