Original sentence: Cornwell claims that his original objective was to vindicate Pius XII.Everything about the book, from its senstional title (Hitler's Pope), to the US-edition cover photo (a 1927 photo taken while the future pope was performing his duties as Vatican ambassador to Germany prior to Hitler's Third Reich, misleadingly cropped, darkened and blurred as compared to the photo used in the UK-edition to appear as if Pope Pius XII was being saluted by Nazi soldiers), to the quality of the research, remains fraught with controversy.He conducted research (in the Vatican archives, to which historians generally have access) on Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II.He is admittedly a lapsed Catholic and ex-seminarian whose writings are typically critical of the Catholic hierarchy.John Cornwell is an English Catholic writer who has written extensively on various topics, including his interpretations of the modern history of the Roman Catholic Church
Edited sentence: Cornwell claims that his original objective was to vindicate Pius XII, however he is admittedly a lapsed Catholic and ex-seminarian whose writings are typically critical of the Catholic hierarchy.Everything about the book, from its senstional title (Hitler's Pope), to the US-edition cover photo (a 1927 photo taken while the future pope was performing his duties as Vatican ambassador to Germany prior to Hitler's Third Reich, misleadingly cropped, darkened and blurred as compared to the photo used in the UK-edition to appear as if Pope Pius XII was being saluted by Nazi soldiers), to the quality of the research, remains frought with controversy.He conducted research (in the Vatican archives to which historians generally have access) on Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II.John Cornwell is an English Catholic writer who has written extensively on various topics including his interpretations of the modern history of the Roman Catholic Church