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The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign To Stop Hitler

by Peter Eisner
. March 2013. 320p. 978-0-06204-914-8.
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A deputy foreign editor at the Washington Post, award-winning author Eisner brings up important history here, backing up his account with what appears to be substantive documentation. He tells the story of Pope Pius XI’s efforts to challenge Hitler’s rise by drafting American Jesuit priest John LaFarge to write a papal encyclical condemning Nazism and anti-Semitism. Alas, conservative churchmen wanting to appease Hitler blocked these efforts, and the Pope died shortly thereafter. Sobering to think what could have been.
Reviewed by Sue White , Oct 15, 2012
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