The Vatican against Nazism and Fascism on the eve of the Second World War. A tired pope watching the crisis unfold and considering what action to take against the new enemies of Christianity. Pius XI died on February 10th; 1939; just after finishing the address he hoped to deliver to the Italian bishops on the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Pact. That text dealt harshly with Nazism and Fascism and was written in solitude. It was a discourse that Mussolini feared and that the pope did not survive to deliver. This moment captures the spirit of Emma Fattorini's book; a work that employs newly available and unpublished documentation from the Vatican Secret Archive to rewrite a fundamental page of 20th history. Pius XI came to view the 1930s as a ‘conflict of civilizations;' a crisis which could only be resolved by a return to the Christian roots of the West. He was a pope who strongly defended the Jews because; in contrast to other elements in the Catholic hierarchy; he held the theological conviction that Jews and Christians shared a common origin: ‘spiritually we are all Semites.' So wrote Pius XI in the last years of his life as he contemplated the direction in which the world was headed and came to the conclusion that Nazi and Fascist totalitarianism could be stopped by the Vatican.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good photos; really dry textBy GreenbyooThis is an informative basic introduction to the roots of Buddhism; its basic beliefs; and the life of the Buddha. I suppose it was written so that young readers could understand it; but wow is it boring! This book manages to take a fascinating story and reduce it to short; factual sentences with no style whatsoever."Gautama decided he had to leave his home forever. He was 29 years old. He wanted to discover how to let go of suffering. He also wanted to help other people do the same." And so on... A good middle school language arts teacher could have helped this factual "report" tremendously.Good thing the photos are worth looking at or I would have returned it immediately. There are MUCH better books for young people available.
