Giovanni Battista Montini e la formazione intellettuale e religiosa degli studenti della FUCI. Una messa a punto storiografica - Giovanni Battista Montini and the intellectual and religious formation of the FUCI students. A historical update

The last steps of the cause of canonization of Giovanni Battista Montini saw an intensification of study initiatives dedicated to investigating the figure and personality of the Pope. This provides a very rich and constantly updated bibliography, which has widened the framework of knowledge relating to the figure of Montini and to the complex events of contemporary Italian Catholicism. Particularly interesting are Montini’s experiences and the reflections that the young official of the Secretariat of State conducted at the turn of the Twenties and Thirties of the last century as a national assistant of FUCI, for the relief that the theme of education of youth, within the more general problematic posed by the encounter of faith with contemporary culture after the modernist crisis, took on the thought of Pope Paul VI and the elaboration of some of the principal documents of the Second Vatican Council.