Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace

by Margherita Marchione

Although the subject of much controversy among Christians and Jews alike, Pius XII was not insensitive to the plight of the Jews in World War II, but on the contrary did much in his own way to save... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080913912X
• ISBN13: 9780809139125
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Think Pius XII was Hitler's Pope? Think again.

The book provides an excellent overview of the Pope's role during World War II in light of history. The evidence in support of the Pope is overwhelming, to say the least. An eye-opening refutation of Cornwell's book, "Hitler's Pope."

Pope Pius XII : Architect for Peace

Sister Margherita Marchione has done a great service to the World for telling the truth about Pope Pius XII during WW II. It is easy for us to sit back and Monday Morning Quarter Back as to what he should and should not have done. What had any religious leader done about the slaughter in Africa or Bosnia?

Veritas

This is a superb study of Pius XII's work for peace and for aid to the persecuted during World War II.What is overhwelming here is the documentation of the literally thousands of times when Pius XII, his nuncios, and the various institutions of the Catholic Church reached out to save persecuted Jews.An irrefutable argument.

Neither left nor right

Marchione's documentation is superb. She shows how many Jews, starting with the Grand Rabbi of Rome, praised Pius XII for his heroic efforts to save them from the Nazis. She also shows the source of the calumny against Pius XII which began with Hochhuth's 1963 play the Deputy (most of the characters and texts of the play are in fact pure fiction).What is new here is how Pius XII's peace efforts made him a bete noire to both sides. He wouldn't bless the Russian Comuninists (so he must be secretly pro-Axis). He wouldn't bless the Nazis (so he must be secretly pro-Allied). He despised both the concentration camps and the obliteration bombing, both the Nazi invasions and the Allied calls for unconditional surrender----eminently moral positions, but not one to win applause from belligerents looking for religious cheerleaders.

Unvarnished Truth

Pope Pius XII saved hundreds of thousand of Jews from certain death---yet this most righteous of Gentiles has become the object of bitter anti-Catholic calumny. This scholarly work simply piles fact on fact, speech on speech, diplomatic cable on diplomatic cable to dismiss the libel. A work of scholarship, a work of justice.