Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler Dorothy

Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler DorothyIn the long awaited Church of Spies, Riebling documents an epic secret battle in the Second World War and reframes one of the great historical controversies of our age. The Vatican's stance toward Nazism is fiercely debated. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius XII of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pius ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy

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Weigel examines the scandal in the context of church history

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became the pioneers and irreplaceable builders of Christian culture and socio-political order

conservative and reformed Judaism

Robert Carter

carries us into sacred silence

how can the Church give such persons pastoral care in light of the Gospel

With candor