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Author:

Fattorini, Emma.

Title:

Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican : Pope Pius XI and the speech that was never made / Emma Fattorini ; translated by Carl Ipsen.

Edition:

[English ed.]

Publisher:

Polity Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvi, 260 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pius--XI,--Pope,--1857-1939.
Fascism and the Catholic Church--Italy.
Church and state--Italy--History--20th century.
National socialism and religion.
Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945.
Mussolini, Benito,--1883-1945.
Pius (Papst, XI.)
Faschismus.
Widerstand.

Other Authors:

Ipsen, Carl, tr.

Other Titles:

Pio XI, Hitler e Mussolini. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-249) and index.

Contents:

A pope's illusions and the rebirth of Christian society -- The spiritual turn -- France and communism as Christian heresy -- Spain and the crusade -- Nazism as public enemy number one : Pius XI and Hitler -- "Another cross that is not the cross of Christ" : Pius XI, Mussolini, Hitler -- "Spiritually we are all Semites" -- The end of a papacy : a sigh of relief.

Summary:

The Vatican against Nazism and Fascism on the eve of WWII. A tired pope watching the crisis unfold and considering what action to take against the new enemies of Christianity. Pius XI died on February 10th, 1939, just after finishing the address he hoped to deliver to the Italian bishops on the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Pact.

ISBN:

0745644880
9780745644882

OCLC:

(OCoLC)682095495

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)