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Title The Pope's last crusade : how an American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI's campaign to stop Hitler / Peter Eisner.
Author Eisner, Peter.
Publisher New York : William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Description x, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : maps, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-277) and index.
Contents Prologue: Settling of accounts -- Nostalgia confronts reality -- "Crooked cross" -- Imposition of the Reich -- Pope's battle plan -- Flying cardinal -- Democratic response -- In the heat of the summer -- Pope's discontent -- Shame and despair -- New year and an end to appeasement -- Will there be time? -- Change overnight -- New regime -- Epilogue.
Summary 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.
Subject 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.
Church and state -- Europe.
Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
National socialism and religion.
Other title How an American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI's campaign to stop Hitler.
ISBN 9780062049148
0062049143