Edited sentence: " As late as 1996, Cornwell called himself a "Catholic agnostic," who did not believe in the soul as an immaterial substance." He also said that he had lost his "belief in the mystery of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist." In 1993 he declared that human beings are "morally, psychologically and materially better off without a belief in God.In 1989, Cornwell described himself as a "lapsed Catholic for more than 20 years.This evidence (which is never mentioned in Hitler’s Pope) conflicts with his claim to have been a devout Catholic convinced of Pius XII’s sanctity when he started that project in the early 1990s