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Article: THE VATICAN'S SECRET DIPLOMAT.(Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- September 22, 2009
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Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J. Yale University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xi + 283 pages. ISBN 978-0-300-12134-6.
Joseph Hurley was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Augustine in Florida, and during his diplomatic career, he conversed with an emperor, two popes, a prime minister and a communist leader. He also corresponded confidentially with three US presidents.
In this very readable account of Bishop Hurley's life, Charles Gallagher points to Hurley's rather conservative Catholicism which made him a strong American patriot, if not an outright chauvinist. As an official diplomat for the Holy ...