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aggiornamento

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ag·gior·na·men·to  (-jôrn-mnt)
n. pl. ag·gior·na·men·tos
The process of bringing an institution or organization up to date; modernization.
[Italian, from aggiornare, to update : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + giorno, day (from Latin diurnus, daily; see diurnal).]
aggiornamento Italian [addʒornaˈmɛnto]
n pl -ti [-ti]
RC Church the process of bringing up to date methods, ideas, etc.


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The house organ of aggiornamento was the international theological journal Concilium, founded in 1965.
Midlife crisis? Vatican II turns 40: with the reforms of the council ... by Boudreau, Paul / U.S. Catholic
The combination of these two requirements was the source of John's famous call for aggiornamento ("updating"): "It is necessary for [the Church] to keep up to date with the changing condition of this modern world .
Forty years later: Vatican II (1962-1965) by Callam, Daniel / Catholic Insight
This implied, among other things, avoiding or at least softening the linear, teleological, and even authoritarian account of modernism that Barr and Rubin (the latter with Greenberg's occasional help) had shaped into the ruling narrative: Lashing out against the prevailing Whiteness of the Male (or the maleness of the whale) is the easiest route for such an aggiornamento.
The new MoMA by Buchlon, Benjamin H.D. / Artforum International
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