The lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII the Roman Catholic Church and the division of Europe, 1943-1950 / [electronic resource] :
Peter C. Kent.
- Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.
- viii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-308) and index.
Pt. 1. The Church and the challenge of communism Introduction -- The first cold warriors -- Pt. 2. The Roman Catholic Church in the Second World War -- The Church and the Axis powers -- The Church under Nazi occupation -- The Church in the Balkans -- The Church in the United States -- The Soviet Union and the Catholic Church -- The papacy and the Second World War -- Pt. 3. Il dopoguerra : neither war nor peace -- Papal leadership after the war -- Early persecution in the Balkans -- The Catholic majorities of East Central Europe -- Catholics and European reconstruction -- The Catholic Church and the occupation of Germany -- Pt. 4. The Cold War begins -- The martyrdom of Archbishop Stepinac -- Vatican resistance to the division of Europe -- The impossibility of Vatican neutrality -- Communist consolidation and Catholic division -- The religious Cold War : communist offensive -- The religious Cold War : Catholic counter-offensive.
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Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.
Christianity and politics--Catholic Church--History--20th century. Communism and Christianity--Catholic Church. Papacy--History--1929-1945.