Hitlers Pope, John Cornwell
Hitlers Pope, John Cornwell
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Hitler's Pope
The Secret History of Pius XII

Author: John Cornwell

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 17 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2022

Synopsis

The "explosive" (The New York Times) bestseller—now with a new introduction by the author

When Hitler's Pope, the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that "redefined the history of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post) was originally published, it sparked a firestorm of controversy both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Now, award-winning journalist John Cornwell has revisited this seminal work of history with a new introduction that both answers his critics and reaffirms his overall thesis that Pius XII, now scheduled to be canonized by the Vatican, weakened the Catholic Church with his endorsement of Hitler—and sealed the fate of the Jews in Europe.

About John Cornwell

John Cornwell is the New York Times bestselling author of Hitler's Pope and many other books on Catholicism, a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times (London), and a historian based in Cambridge, England. In 2019 he won the coveted Wilbur Award for best American magazine feature on religious affairs. He is widely known as a trusted expert on the Vatican and the modern papacy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lewis on May 30, 2016

Cornwell has written a devastating condemnation of Cardinal Pacelli (later Pius XII). So far, I have read the chapters describing Pacelli's utterly immoral role in bringing Hitler to a position of dictatorial power by passage of the Enabling Act in 1933. To summarize ... Pacelli was fixated on reachi......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on November 30, 2008

The beatification process has begun to make Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) a saint. Aside from whatever we might think about how saints are created by the church as an institution, I suspect everyone would agree that any saint should have a reasonably spotless reputation. John Henry Newman, a famous Bri......more

Goodreads review by Clif on October 30, 2009

I've cried twice this year when I read a book. This was one of them. The scene was that rubber-necking German soldiers were driving past the Vatican, their trucks filled with Italian Jewish deportees on their way to certain death. This was happening with the full knowledge of people within the Vatic......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on May 18, 2021

A well-written biography of one of history's footnotes: Pope Pius XII.......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on July 12, 2011

One of the enduring controversies of the Catholic Church has been its role, or perhaps more appropriately its lack of role, in speaking out against the Holocaust. Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, has been accused of cowardice, anti-Semitism, a lack of concern for worldly affairs, a bias towards Germa......more

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