The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII
Title | The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII PDF eBook |
Author | Frank J. Coppa |
Publisher | Catholic University of America Press + ORM |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2013-02-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0813220254 |
“Focuses not just on . . . the pope’s response to the Holocaust, but on [his] life and papacy . . . as a whole . . . A refreshingly balanced approach” (Catholic Courier). Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, this present biographical study—unlike the greater part of the vast and growing historiography of Pope Pius XII—is a balanced and nonreactive account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope’s silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man before and during his papacy. It probes the roots of his traditionalism and legalism, his approach to modernity and reformism in Church and society, and the influences behind his policies and actions. “This book adds a great deal to what we currently know about this most written about pope. The author introduces a number of principles which need to be discussed by experts and also by biographers of this pope, most importantly the concepts of papal impartiality and anti-Judaism as related to Pope Pius XII.” —Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., assistant professor of history, Boston College “It sets up a closer examination and better understanding of Pius XII’s decisions and behaviors dealing with three distinct historically important topics: the Holocaust, the question of Palestine and Israel after World War II, and the Cold War.” —Catholic Books Review “Tries to move away from the controversy and toward a greater and broader focus on the entire life of Pacelli—his formative influences, personal interests, and papacy after the war.” —New Oxford Review
Soldier of Christ
Title | Soldier of Christ PDF eBook |
Author | Robert A. Ventresca |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2013-01-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0674071859 |
“This well-crafted biography” presents “a balanced, but not uncritical, examination of the life of a controversial pope” (Library Journal). Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII are so heated they are known as the “Pius wars.” Soldier of Christ focuses instead on Eugenio Pacelli, the flawed yet gifted man himself. While offering insight into the pope’s response to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca argues that it was the Cold War and Pius XII’s manner of engaging with the modern world that defined his pontificate. Ventresca begins with the story of Pacelli’s Roman upbringing, his intellectual formation in Rome’s seminaries, and his interwar experience as papal diplomat and Vatican secretary of state. Accused of moral equivocation during the Holocaust, Pius XII later fought the spread of Communism, spoke against the persecution of Catholics, and tackled a range of social and political issues. By appointing the first indigenous cardinals from China and India and expanding missions in Africa, he internationalized the church’s membership and moved Catholicism beyond the colonial mentality of previous eras. Drawing from a diversity of international sources, including unexplored documentation from the Vatican, Ventresca reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership both stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism and sowed doubt and dissension among some of the church’s most faithful servants.
Shepherd of Souls
Title | Shepherd of Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Margherita Marchione |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809141814 |
Contains over 250 historic photographs, sketches and documents portraying the life and works of Pope Pius XII.
Crown of Glory
Title | Crown of Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Alden Hatch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 1957 |
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Pope Pius XII
Title | Pope Pius XII PDF eBook |
Author | Margherita Marchione |
Publisher | Paulist Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809139125 |
Highlights Pope Pius XII's efforts to bring about peace and help victims of the Second World War, especial based on scholarship and pertinent original documents relating to these matters.
The Global Pontificate of Pius XII
Title | The Global Pontificate of Pius XII PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Unger-Alvi |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2024-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1805396102 |
In 2020, the Vatican opened its archives for the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the pope that led the Catholic Church during WWII, the Holocaust, and the beginning of the Cold War. The Global Pontificate of Pius XII brings together historians who were among the first to consult the previously unseen Vatican materials. These long-awaited records allow for an expansion of the current historiography beyond the pope’s biography. Methodologically, the volume works to transcend the rigidity of religious history and engage with new approaches in global, transnational, and postcolonial history to re-introduce questions surrounding religion into modern post-war historiography.
The Life of Pope Pius XII.
Title | The Life of Pope Pius XII. PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Hugo Doyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Popes |
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