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Robert A. Ventresca
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January 2021
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Harvard University Press
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January 2021
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Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII and his canonization are so heated they are known as the "Pius wars." Soldier of Christ moves beyond competing caricatures and considers Pius XII as Eugenio Pacelli, a flawed and gifted man. 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. Laying the groundwork for the pope's controversial, contradictory actions from 1939 to 1958, 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 in Western Europe, spoke against the persecution of Catholics in Eastern Europe and Asia, and tackled a range of social and political issues.
By appointing the first indigenous cardinals from China and India and expanding missions in Africa while expressing solidarity with independence movements, 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.
Author
Robert A. Ventresca
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
January 2021
Weight
795g
Page Count
432
Dimensions
164 x 236 x 33 mm
ISBN
9780674049611
ISBN-10
0674049616
Eden Code
4577742
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Author/Creator: Robert A. Ventresca
ISBN: 9780674049611
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: January 2021
Weight: 795g
Dimensions: 164 x 236 x 33 mm
Eden Code: 4577742