Keywords

• The article studies the dynamics of the relationship between clerics and laity within the Papal Court and the Roman Curia during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• highlighting an evident clericalization
• with a subsequent sacralization of power
• with regard to the government not only of the Papal States
• but above all of the Universal Church. The work starts by examining the underlying lexicographical and historiographical issues
• in order to study the development of the clerical-lay relationship over the long term
• in which the layman is restricted to the functions of the Court
• to the detriment of other roles
• while on the contrary
• the cleric (priest
• religious
• bishop and cardinal)
• in retaining his roles in Court
• further enhances his position within the Curia
• until reaching a kind of monopoly within the heart of Catholicism