LEADER 03460nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910462811103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07185-9 010 $a0-674-06730-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067301 035 $a(CKB)2670000000319349 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018185 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803727 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11508836 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803727 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10811486 035 $a(PQKB)10757025 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301196 035 $a(DE-B1597)177974 035 $a(OCoLC)819323268 035 $a(OCoLC)840440273 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067301 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301196 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642581 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000319349 100 $a20120724d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSoldier of Christ$b[electronic resource] $ethe life of Pope Pius XII /$fRobert A. Ventresca 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (405 p. ) $cill 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-674-04961-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPius war -- Black nobility and papal Rome -- Diplomat's vocation -- Conflict and compromise -- Tremendous responsibility -- War and Holocaust -- New world order -- Universal pope -- Virtuous life?. 330 $aDebates 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. 606 $aPopes$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPopes 676 $a282.092 676 $aB 700 $aVentresca$b Robert$01048461 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462811103321 996 $aSoldier of Christ$92476763 997 $aUNINA