Article: Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII

Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII. By Margherita Marchione.(Mahwah, New Jersey: The Paulist Press. 2002. Pp. x, 389. $24.95 paperback.)

Although Sister Margherita Marchione first won scholarly recognition in the United States by publishing studies on Philip Mazzei (1730-1816), the Florentine friend of Thomas Jefferson, she has been devoting these last five years to the laudable work of defending the reputation of Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli). Since 1997, for example, this member of the Sisters Filippini and professor emerita in Italian Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University has published a half-dozen works on the pope in order to counterbalance the criticism of such ...

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