Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell

By John Cornwell

Sponsored by means of a wealth of latest examine, John Cornwell tells for the 1st time the tale of the realm conflict II occupation of Eugenio Pacelli, the fellow who was once Pope Pius XII, arguably the main risky churchman in glossy historical past. within the first decade of the century, as a super younger Vatican attorney, Pacelli contributed to shaping a brand new ideology of exceptional papal strength in Germany. In 1933 Hitler grew to become his negotiating accomplice, an contract used to be prepared that granted non secular and fiscal funds to the Catholic Church in alternate for his or her withdrawal from social and political privilege, making sure the increase of Nazism.

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They want them to be treated with oil, soap, and caresses,” he once said, referring to those who counseled compassion toward the alleged perpetrators. “But they should be beaten with fists. In a duel, you don’t count or measure the blows, you strike as you 38 Hitler’s Pope can. ”11 Small wonder that he was prepared to endorse Benigni’s remarkable measures to seek out and destroy the perceived enemy. In his deposition for the canonization process of Pius X, Pietro Gasparri, Pacelli’s boss and close confidant during these years, gave a condemnatory account of Pius X’s personal initiatives in the campaign.

The Vatican archives were opened to Catholic and non-Catholic scholars alike. Under Leo XIII, historical perspectives almost entirely neglected by Catholic scholarship in the past were actively encouraged. As a nuncio Leo had traveled throughout Europe and witnessed the working and living conditions in the expanding industrial centers. In the 1880s Catholic labor groups, looking for guidance from the Church, descended on Rome in ever greater numbers. In 1891 Leo published the encyclical Rerum novarum (Of New Things), the papacy’s response, half a century on, to The Communist Manifesto and Marx’s Das Kapital.

9 Thus ended the longest and one of the most turbulent pontificates in the history of the papacy. Childhood and Youth in the “New” Rome Against the background of the troubled end to Pio Nono’s embattled papacy, Eugenio Pacelli was born in Rome on March 2, 1876, in an apartment shared by his parents and his grandfather Marcantonio on the 16 Hitler’s Pope third floor of Via Monte Giordano 3 (now known as Via degli Orsini). The building was a few steps from the Chiesa Nuova, with its ornate and gilded baroque interior; approaching the west end of Corso Vittorio Emanuele, one sees the portico set back a little from the street.

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