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.
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