Pope's Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler [Mar 19, 2013] Eisner, Peter

from bks1953

An interesting read, but ultimately disappointing, in that the "American Jesuit," Fr. John La Farge was totally out-played by his Jesuit superior in Rome. I was under the impression that Jesuits took a special vow of allegiance to the pope, which, I would think, would supersede his obedience to h...

from m.belljackson

Having read many mentions of a Pope Pius and his collaborations with Mussolini and Hitler during World War II, I was astonished - for many reasons - with this book. First, despite many previous references in both novels and non-fiction to Pope Pius, it quickly became obvious that there were two P...

from m.belljackson

Having read many mentions of a Pope Pius and his collaborations with Mussolini and Hitler during World War II, I was astonished - for many reasons - with this book. First, despite many previous references in both novels and non-fiction to Pope Pius, it quickly became obvious that there were two P...