TY  - GEN
N2  - Documents the life of the controversial pope, discussing his religious upbringing, his work as a papal diplomat, his reponses to the persecution of the Jews during World War II, and his appointment of church officials in China, India, and Africa.
N2  - Reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism while sowing doubt and dissension among some of the Church's most faithful servants. The Cold War and Pius XII's manner of engaging with the modern world defined his pontificate, Ventresca argues.
AB  - Documents the life of the controversial pope, discussing his religious upbringing, his work as a papal diplomat, his reponses to the persecution of the Jews during World War II, and his appointment of church officials in China, India, and Africa.
AB  - Reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism while sowing doubt and dissension among some of the Church's most faithful servants. The Cold War and Pius XII's manner of engaging with the modern world defined his pontificate, Ventresca argues.
T1  - Soldier of Christthe life of Pope Pius XII /
DA  - 2013.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Ventresca, Robert.
CN  - ProQuest Ebook Central
CN  - BX1378
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 2013.
ID  - 1403883
KW  - Popes
SN  - 9780674067301
TI  - Soldier of Christthe life of Pope Pius XII /
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