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Format:

Book

Author:

Eisner, Peter.

Title:

The Pope's last crusade : how an American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI's campaign to stop Hitler / Peter Eisner.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2013]

Description:

x, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Summary:

Draws on new archival research to examine Pope Pius XI's effort to reject Nazism, discussing how he enlisted the assistance of John La Farge, a virtually unknown American Jesuit, to craft a papal encyclical (Humani generis unitas, which was never promulgated) condemning Hitler's campaign against the Jews.

Subjects:

Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939.

La Farge, John, 1880-1963.

Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.

Catholic Church -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.

Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Germany.

National socialism and religion.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.

Christianity and antisemitism -- History -- 20th century.

Church and state -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.

Church and state -- Europe.

Germany -- Foreign relations -- Catholic Church.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-277) and index.

Contents:

A settling of accounts -- Nostalgia confronts reality -- A "crooked cross" -- The imposition of the Reich -- The Pope's battle plan -- The flying cardinal -- A democratic response -- In the heat of the summer -- The Pope's discontent -- Shame and despair -- A new year and an end to appeasement -- Will there be time? -- Change overnight -- The new regime -- Excerpts from LaFarge's encyclical.

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Contributor biographical information

LCCN:

2013474258

ISBN:

9780062049148

0062049143

Other Number:

796762480

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

349253

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1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

282.092 Eisner