Author: Pierre Blet
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The first one-volume history, based on the Vatican archives, of Pope Pius XII and his dealings with the contesting powers and with the Jews during World War II.
Piux XII on World Problems
Author: James W. Naughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pius XII and the Second World War
Author: Pierre Blet
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The first one-volume history, based on the Vatican archives, of Pope Pius XII and his dealings with the contesting powers and with the Jews during World War II.
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The first one-volume history, based on the Vatican archives, of Pope Pius XII and his dealings with the contesting powers and with the Jews during World War II.
Pius XII on World Problems
Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1939-1958 : Pius XII)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII
Author: Frank J. Coppa
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
ISBN: 0813220254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
“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
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
ISBN: 0813220254
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
“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
A World to Reconstruct
Author: Guido Gonella
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
How Help a World in Misery?
Author: Pope Pius XII
Publisher:
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Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Pius XII on World Problems
Author: James W. Naughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"This book offers an analytic classification of all the Pope's pronouncements. It offers, too, a complete index and bibliography of every doctrine or problem he has touched on."-- Foreword, page viii.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"This book offers an analytic classification of all the Pope's pronouncements. It offers, too, a complete index and bibliography of every doctrine or problem he has touched on."-- Foreword, page viii.
The Major Addresses of Pope Pius Xii, V1-2
Author: Pope Pius Xii
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258443719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Selected Addresses; Volume 2, Christmas Messages.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258443719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Selected Addresses; Volume 2, Christmas Messages.
Soldier of Christ
Author: Robert A. Ventresca
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
“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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071859
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
“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.
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Author: Carol Rittner
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780718502744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Collaborative effort by a number of the world's leading experts on the Holocaust. Lively, but not sensationalistic, this book is balanced but on the cutting edge of one of the most important debates in this field: how should Vatican policies during World War II be understood? Specifically, could Pope Pius XII have curbed the Holocaust by vigorously condemning the Nazi killing of Jews? Was Pius XII really 'Hitler's Pope', as John Cornwell's provocative book recently suggested? Or has he unfairly become a scapegoat when he is really deserving of canonization as a Roman Catholic saint instead? In Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, well-informed scholars—including Michael Marrus, Michael Phayer, Richard L. Rubenstein and Susan Zuccotti—wrestle with these questions. The book has four main themes: (1) Pope Pius XII must be understood in his particular historical context. (2) Pope Pius XII put the well-being of the Roman Catholic Church—as he understood that well-being—first and foremost. (3) In retrospect, Pope Pius XII's priorities—understandable though they are—not only make him a problematic Christian leader but also raise important questions about post-Holocaust Christian identity. (4) Jewish and Christian memories of the Holocaust will remain different, but reconciliation can continue to grow. On all sides, relations between Christians and Jews can be improved by an honest facing of history and by continuing reflection about what post-Holocaust Christian and Jewish identities ought—and ought not—to mean.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780718502744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Collaborative effort by a number of the world's leading experts on the Holocaust. Lively, but not sensationalistic, this book is balanced but on the cutting edge of one of the most important debates in this field: how should Vatican policies during World War II be understood? Specifically, could Pope Pius XII have curbed the Holocaust by vigorously condemning the Nazi killing of Jews? Was Pius XII really 'Hitler's Pope', as John Cornwell's provocative book recently suggested? Or has he unfairly become a scapegoat when he is really deserving of canonization as a Roman Catholic saint instead? In Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, well-informed scholars—including Michael Marrus, Michael Phayer, Richard L. Rubenstein and Susan Zuccotti—wrestle with these questions. The book has four main themes: (1) Pope Pius XII must be understood in his particular historical context. (2) Pope Pius XII put the well-being of the Roman Catholic Church—as he understood that well-being—first and foremost. (3) In retrospect, Pope Pius XII's priorities—understandable though they are—not only make him a problematic Christian leader but also raise important questions about post-Holocaust Christian identity. (4) Jewish and Christian memories of the Holocaust will remain different, but reconciliation can continue to grow. On all sides, relations between Christians and Jews can be improved by an honest facing of history and by continuing reflection about what post-Holocaust Christian and Jewish identities ought—and ought not—to mean.