Una contrapposizione antica in un ordine nuovo. La rivista «Stimmen der Zeit» e il protestantesimo durante la Repubblica di Weimar (1918-1933)

This paper aims to analyse the thoughts published in the Jesuit journal «Stimmen der Zeit» about the relationship between Catholics and Protestants during the years of the Weimar Republic, and in doing so to outline the attitude of the German Jesuits towards Protestantism. As for the “separated brethren”, the journal focused above all on two issues: on the one hand the coexistence between the Christian denominations in post-war Germany, and on the other the development of the ecumenical movement in the international context. The «Stimmen» were not immune to a traditional anti-Protestant prejudice and called for the “return” of Protestants to the Catholic Church, as Pius XI’s encyclical "Mortalium animos" did in 1928. However, Father Max Pribilla (1874-1956) worked to prevent the papal document from completely extinguishing the attention of German Catholics towards the ecumenical efforts, recognizing in them positive elements to be safeguarded.