TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ventresca,Robert
TI  - Soldier of Christ: the life of Pope Pius XII 
SN  - 9780674067301
AV  - BX1378 .V46 2013eb
U1  - 282.092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Pius
KW  - Popes
KW  - Biography
KW  - Papes
KW  - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Catholic
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Modern
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pius war -- Black nobility and papal Rome -- Diplomat's vocation -- Conflict and compromise -- Tremendous responsibility -- War and Holocaust -- New world order -- Universal pope -- Virtuous life?
N2  - Debates 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; Soldier of Christ 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
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