Hitler’s Pope (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cornwell
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography, religion, and history
- Time of Work: 1876-1958
- Setting: Italy and Germany
- Principal Characters: Eugenio Pacelli, Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Pope Benedict XV, Pope Pius XI
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis, Italy or Italians, Popes or papacy, Germany or German people
- Locales: Germany, Italy
John Cornwell has written other books on the papacy and the history of Catholicism, but his books on Popes Pius XII and John Paul I reveal antagonism toward the centralized hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and especially toward all popes of the twentieth century with the exception of Pope John XXIII. Cornwell is a research fellow at Jesus College at Cambridge University. He has published articles in British journals, including Vanity Fair and the London Sunday Times.
In the preface to this book, Cornwell claims that he undertook his research on Pope Pius XII...
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