Publication

2008-06-28 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

76,000 words, Guess

Page Count

304 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100300121342
  • ISBN-139780300121346
  • LibraryThing5658161
  • Goodreads2586812
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007043743
and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCBX4705.H873G35 2008
  • LCCBX4705.H873 G35 2008
  • DDC282.092
and 1 more
  • DDCB

Description

"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's 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 Drawing on Hurley's unpublished archives, the book documents critical debates in Pope Pius's Vatican, secret U.S. Vatican dealings, the influence of Detroit's flamboyant antisemitic priest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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Vatican Secret DiplomacyHardcoverYale University Press2008-06-28

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