The Perfect Pattern of a Prelate
Eamon Duffy: Pius XII and the Jews, 26 September 2013
The Life and Pontificate of Pope Pius XII: Between History and Controversy
by Frank Coppa.
Catholic University of America, 306 pp., £25.50, February 2013,978 0 8132 2016 1 Show More
by Frank Coppa.
Catholic University of America, 306 pp., £25.50, February 2013,
The Pope’s Jews: The Vatican’s Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis
by Gordon Thomas.
Robson, 336 pp., £20, February 2013,978 1 84954 506 8 Show More
by Gordon Thomas.
Robson, 336 pp., £20, February 2013,
Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII
by Robert Ventresca.
Harvard, 405 pp., £25, January 2013,978 0 674 04961 1 Show More
by Robert Ventresca.
Harvard, 405 pp., £25, January 2013,
“... not denounce Nazi crimes without also denouncing Bolshevik crimes. Instead, he resorted to what Robert Ventresca characterises as ‘formulaic appeals to universal peace and brotherhood, and demands that the belligerents respect the rules of war’. The pope believed that informed hearers would recognise the targets of these generalisations well ... ”
