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Article: Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War.(Book review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- June 22, 2008
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Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War.By Michael Phayer. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2008. 352pp. $29.5.
In his latest book, Michael Phayer both revisits ground addressed in his earlier work, The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965, and expands his scope to consider the role Pope Pius XII may have played in the conflicts of the early cold war era. The first few chapters cover ground familiar to any historian acquainted with the so-called "Pius wars" over the pontiff's role in the Holocaust or with Phayer's earlier work: the life of Eugenio Pacelli until his election to the papacy, the response of the Pope to the early genocidal ...
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... ... bowed in prayer. Pope Pius XII's portrait offers a clear ... conference at MU, "Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust," promises ... the man who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, did not become ... University's Dr. J. Michael Phayer called public interest ...
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