Title: Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican: Pope Pius XI and the Speech That was Never Made
Description: Uses newly released and unpublished documentation from the Vatican Secret Archive to show how Pope Pius XI grappled with fascism and Nazism, and how his spirituality, rather then political views, led him to increasingly speak out against Nazism.
Subjects: Pius xi, pope, 1857-1939, Christianity and antisemitism, Fascism and the Catholic Church, Church and state, History, National socialism and religion, Faschismus, Widerstand, Nationalsozialismus