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The Pope's last crusade : how an American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI's campaign to stop Hitler
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Draws on new archival research to examine Pope Pius XI's effort to reject Nazism, discussing how he enlisted the assistance of John La Farge, a virtually unknown American Jesuit, to craft a papal e...
Draws on new archival research to examine Pope Pius XI's effort to reject Nazism, discussing how he enlisted the assistance of John La Farge, a virtually unknown American Jesuit, to craft a papal encyclical condemning Hitler's campaign against the Jews.
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- Creator
- Peter Eisner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York, NY : William Morrow, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- x, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780062049148, 0062049143
- OCLC
- ocn796762480
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-277) and index.
- A settling of accounts -- Nostalgia confronts reality -- A "crooked cross" -- The imposition of the Reich -- The Pope's battle plan -- The flying cardinal -- A democratic response -- In the heat of the summer -- The Pope's discontent -- Shame and despair -- A new year and an end to appeasement -- Will there be time? -- Change overnight -- The new regime -- Excerpts from LaFarge's encyclical
Subjects
- La Farge, John, 1880-1963.
- Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939.
- Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
- Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958 -- Relations with Germany.
- Catholic Church -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
- Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
- Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
- Church and state -- Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
- National socialism and religion.