TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frank J. Coppa
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453907795
TI  - The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII
T2  - Between Diplomacy and Morality
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0779-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050865
N2  - The Policies and Politics of Pope Pius XII delves into the diplomacy of the most controversial pope of the twentieth century: Pius XII (pontificate, 1939-1958), «Advocate of Appeasement» to some and «Apostle of Peace» to others. Disagreement prevails on his quest for peace, recourse to impartiality during the Second World War, and relative public silence during the Holocaust. His abandonment of impartiality to play a prominent role in the Cold War has contributed to the charges and counter-charges leading to what has been deemed the «Pius War.» Unfortunately, a good deal of the literature published by the defenders and denigrators of this papal diplomacy has shed more heat than light. In this book, Frank J. Coppa, who has written on numerous controversial figures including Pius IX (pontificate,1846-1878), seeks to objectively explore the origins and rationale of Pius XII’s diplomacy during the war, the Nazi genocide, and its aftermath.
KW  - World War II, Diplomacy, Politics, Holocaust, Impariality, Geermanophile, Pius War, Silence
LA  - English
ER  -