The explosive, untold story of the most dangerous church man in modern history--Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII--pontiff from 1939 to 1958, from the eve of World War II to the height of the Cold War. Award-winning journalist John Cornwell shows that Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power--and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe. of photos.
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The explosive, untold story of the most dangerous church man in modern history--Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII--pontiff from 1939 to 1958, from the eve of World War II to the height of the Cold War. Award-winning journalist John Cornwell shows that Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to unhindered power--and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe. of photos.
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Like New. Size: 5x0x8; This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. After World War II, murmurs of Pacelli's callous indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews began to be heard. A noted commentator on Catholic issues, Cornwell began research for this book believing that "if his full story were told, Pius XII's pontificate would be exonerated." Instead, he emerged from the Vatican archives in a state of "moral shock, " concluding that Pacelli displayed anti-Semitic tendencies early on and that his drive to promote papal absolutism inexorably led him to collaboration with fascist leaders. Cornwell convincingly depicts Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli pursuing Vatican diplomatic goals that crippled Germany's large Catholic political party, which might otherwise have stymied Hitler's worst excesses. The author's condemnation has special force because he portrays the admittedly eccentric Pacelli not as a monster but as a symptom of a historic wrong turn in the Catholic Church. He meticulously builds his case for the painful conclusion that "Pacelli's failure to respond to the enormity of the Holocaust was more than a personal failure, it was a failure of the papal office itself and the prevailing culture of Catholicism.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. First printing; full number line. Moderate cover, corner wear. Pages fine, no writing. Classic black and red cover design w/photograph of his eminence flowing past guards and saluting soldiers. Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has long been the subject of controversy over his failure to speak out against Hitler's war machine. In Hitler's Pope, award-winning journalist and Roman Catholic John Cornwell shows that, even well before the war, Pope Pius XII was instrumental in negotiating an accord that helped the Nazis rise to power-and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe. Drawing upon secret Vatican and Jesuit archives to which he had exclusive access, Cornwell tells the full, tragic story of how narcissism, longstanding personal antipathy for the Jews, and political and spiritual ambition combined to make Pius the most dangerous churchman in history. A firm and final indictment of Pius XII's papacy, and a searing exploration of its lingering consequences for the Catholic church today. devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. After World War II, murmurs More...of Pacelli's callous indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews began to be heard. A noted commentator on Catholic issues, Cornwell began research for this book believing that if his full story were told, Pius XII's pontificate would be exonerated. Instead, he emerged from the Vatican archives in a state of moral shock, concluding that Pacelli displayed anti-Semitic tendencies early on and that his drive to promote papal absolutism inexorably led him to collaboration with fascist leaders. Cornwell convincingly depicts Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli pursuing Vatican diplomatic goals that crippled Germany's large Catholic political party, which might otherwise have stymied Hitler's worst excesses. The author's condemnation has special force because he portrays the admittedly eccentric Pacelli not as a monster but as a symptom of a historic wrong turn in the Catholic Church. He meticulously builds his case for the painful conclusion that Pacelli's failure to respond to the enormity of the Holocaust was more than a personal failure, it was a failure of the papal office itself and the prevailing culture of Catholicism. -Wendy Smith Includes Notes Section by chapter, selected bibliography, and index. 426 pages.
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The book is very well written and full of information on the Vatican and Nazi Germany during WWII
BruceHH
Mar 27, 2013
Religious Politics
Eugenio Pacelli, aka Pius XII, engineered further strengthening of the autocratic governing structure of the Roman Catholic Church. That was his be all and end all. A 'Vicar of Christ' on earth in name only, he, in essence, backed the Fascist regime in Italy and the NAZI regime in Italy in order to strengthen his control over the local churches. Though knowing of atrocities committed by the NAZIs throughout Europe and by Catholic priests in Croatia, among other places, he did not condemn the perpetrators. In fact, he used veiled language that might, if one stretches their imagination, allude to some sort of un-Christ-like behavior by some people. Reading this book also made me aware that some 'dogmas' of the Catholic church are relatively recent, the Immaculate Conception dates from 1854 and papal infallibility from 1870. Using Vatican sources as well as material from other archives, Cornwell paints a picture of the wartime pope that leads one to believe that the 'esteemed' head of the Church was guilty of the mortal sin of pride and, because of his silence in the face of evidence of 'the final solution' and other atrocities, other sins as well.
robertr
Feb 10, 2011
It's historical
I didn't know about this as it has it in the book, it really opened my eyes.
ghmus7
Dec 1, 2007
Yellow Journalism at it's Best
This book, a basic scree against the Catholic Church, is riddles with inaccuracies, shoddy scholarship, and fictional history. Cornwell ignores the huge deposit of historical documents which proclaim the thankful Jewish response to the pope's actions during the war. Dozens of international jewish groups paid tribute to the pope's saving actions during the war, in which it is estimated that he saved 800,000 jewish people from the Nazi holocoust. For a much more comprehensive work on this subject, I refer the reader to "Hitler, the War, and the Pope" by Ronald J. Rychlak. Rychlak devoteds a chapter of his book to demoloshing the scholarship in Cornwall's work, and deals with the sources with integrity, revealing the truth of the pope's actions during the war.
