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Vatican Secret Diplomacy

Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

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In the corridors of the Vatican on the eve of World War II, American Catholic priest Joseph Patrick Hurley found himself in the midst of secret diplomatic dealings and intense debate. Hurley's deeply felt American patriotism and fixed ideas about confronting Nazism directly led to a mighty clash with Pope Pius XII. It was 1939, the earliest days of Pius' papacy, and controversy within the Vatican over policy toward Nazi Germany was already heated. This groundbreaking book is both a biography of Joseph Hurley, the first American to achieve the rank of nuncio, or Vatican ambassador, and an insider's view of the alleged silence of the pope on the Holocaust and Nazism.Drawing on Hurley's unpublished archives, the book documents critical debates in Pope Pius' Vatican, secret U.S.-Vatican dealings, the influence of Detroit's flamboyant anti-Semitic priest Charles E. Coughlin, and the controversial case of Croatia's Cardinal Stepinac. The book also sheds light on the powerful connections between religion and politics in the twentieth century.

  • Title

    Vatican Secret Diplomacy

  • Author

    Charles Gallagher

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    June 2008

  • Weight

    573g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300121346

  • ISBN-10

    0300121342

  • Eden Code

    1212078

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