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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (original 2015; udgave 2014)

af David I. Kertzer

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History. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:PULITZER PRIZE WINNER  ? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI??s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini??s spies inside the highest levels of the Church, will forever change our understanding of the Vatican??s role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.

 
The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of two men who came to power in 1922, and together changed the course of twentieth-century history. In most respects, they could not have been more different. One was scholarly and devout, the other thuggish and profane. Yet Pius XI and ??Il Duce? had many things in common. They shared a distrust of democracy and a visceral hatred of Communism. Both were prone to sudden fits of temper and were fiercely protective of the prerogatives of their office. (??We have many interests to protect,? the Pope declared, soon after Mussolini seized control of the government in 1922.) Each relied on the other to consolidate his power and achieve his political goals.
 
In a challenge to the conventional history of this period, in which a heroic Church does battle with the Fascist regime, Kertzer shows how Pius XI played a crucial role in making Mussolini??s dictatorship possible and keeping him in power. In exchange for Vatican support, Mussolini restored many of the privileges the Church had lost and gave in to the pope??s demands that the police enforce Catholic morality. Yet in the last years of his life??as the Italian dictator grew ever closer to Hitler??the pontiff??s faith in this treacherous bargain started to waver. With his health failing, he began to lash out at the Duce and threatened to denounce Mussolini??s anti-Semitic racial laws before it was too late. Horrified by the threat to the Church-Fascist alliance, the Vatican??s inner circle, including the future Pope Pius XII, struggled to restrain the headstrong pope from destroying a partnership that had served both the Church and the dictator for many years.
 
The Pope and Mussolini brims with memorable portraits of the men who helped enable the reign of Fascism in Italy: Father Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Pius??s personal emissary to the dictator, a wily anti-Semite known as Mussolini??s Rasputin; Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy, an object of widespread derision who lacked the stature??literally and figuratively??to stand up to the domineering Duce; and Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, whose political skills and ambition made him Mussolini??s most powerful ally inside the Vatican, and positioned him to succeed the pontiff as the controversial Pius XII, whose actions during World War II would be subject for debate for decades to come.
 
With the recent opening of the Vatican archives covering Pius XI??s papacy, the full story of the Pope??s complex relationship with his Fascist partner can finally be told. Vivid, dramatic, with surprises at every turn, The Pope and Mussoli
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Titel:The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
Forfattere:David I. Kertzer
Info:Random House (2014), Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Hardcover, 592 pages
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This was among the most disturbing books I have read. The story about the collaboration of the Papacy with Italian fascism is too long in coming. As I read these pages it made me pray for the dissolution of the papacy and the Jesuit order. You could take them along with the British Monarchy and consign them to the dustbin of history. ( )
  MylesKesten | Jan 23, 2024 |
muy buena reseña del pontificado de Pio XI quien en definitiva por miedo al comunismo y la miopía que ello le provocó no se entrentó a Hitler y Mussolini. Y Cuando se dio cuenta ya era muy tarde. El odio al liberallismo y el antisemitismo de la iglesia ayudaron también a ello ( )
  gneoflavio | Jul 1, 2022 |
This book challenged the accepted narrative that the Italian Catholic Church fought courageously against Mussolini and the Fascists. The author's thesis rests on newly released materials (2011) which paint Pius XI as a not so benign contributor to the rise of Fascism in Italy in the 1920's and 1930's. It began when Pius took a trip to Poland and saw how the Poles were treated by the Bolsheviks. He then was an avowed anti-communist and thought Fascism would be better than communism. Weird truce-like state between Mussolini (atheist) and Pius, which Pius came to regret and was in the process of trying to withdraw the church from this alliance when he died. The author also argues that the Italians have been very good at revisionist history, denying any alliance between the clergy and Mussolini. Great read, if you are interested in history. 592 pages ( )
  Tess_W | Oct 21, 2021 |
The Pope helped Mussolini get and keep power in return for making Catholicism mandatory in Italy, paving the way for Hitler’s rise. He wasn’t an aggressive anti-Semite, but did nothing to fight the anti-Semitism in the Catholic church, some of whose official publications in this period sound like they came straight from Goebbels. Ultimately, he seems to have felt a little bad about what he enabled, but not awfully bad (except perhaps for the fate of converted Jews who married Catholics, whose marriages he would’ve strongly preferred to recognize in contravention of the racial measures enacted under Nazi pressure). ( )
  rivkat | Oct 11, 2019 |
Een bijzonder erudiet en meeslepend geschreven boek over twee mannen aan de vooravond van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Mussolini en Pius XI, die enerzijds niet meer van elkaar konden verschillen maar anderzijds elkaars gelijke waren in hun explosieve temperament, hun weerzin om voor de ander te moeten onderdoen, hun eis voor volledige gehoorzaamheid van hun onderdanen, en hun uiteindelijke desillusie in de ander. Beiden hoopten de ander te kunnen inspannen voor de eigen doelen. Mussolini had de macht van de paus over de Italiaanse katholieken nodig om zijn eigen regime te verstevigen. Pius XI, vooral gedreven door een angst voor het communisme, hoopte via Mussolini van Italië terug een land te maken waarin het katholieke instituut de lakens uitdeelde.
Met de opening van de Vaticaanse archieven voor deze dramatische periode werd duidelijk hoe ver (en dus in zekere zin medeplichtig) Pius XI ging in het ruime baan geven aan het fascistische staatsbestel, daarin erg bijgestaan door het hoofdkwartier van de jezuïeten. Ook de Pius XI's minister van buitenlandse zaken, Eugenio Pacelli, de latere Pius XII, blijkt alles te hebben gedaan om Mussolini toch maar nergens in te ontstemmen. Zelfs niet toen Mussolini in navolging van (en/of onder druk van) Hitler Duitsland eigen Italiaanse rassenwetten uitvaardigde tegen de joden, ging Pius XI's bekommernis enkel uit naar behoud van een aantal onderdelen van de Lateraanse Akkoorden. En toen Pius XI op het einde van zijn leven een encycliek had voorbereid waarin het Vaticaan zich dan toch uitsprak tegen de rassenwetten, liet Pius XII meteen beslag leggen op alle documenten in die zin, ook weer om het fascistische regime te vriend te houden. Zulke houding door Vaticaanse instanties kan niet langer worden uitgelegd als het bewandelen van een omzichtige neutraliteit t.o.v. het aan de gang zijnde wereldconflict. En als de Vaticaanse archieven nu al een meer realistisch beeld mogelijk maken van Vaticaanse politiek, dan tekenen de archieven van de Italiaanse staat (o.a. dossiers van fascistische politie en spionnen) een weinig fraai beeld van toenmalige, toegedekte Vaticaanse intriges en seksuele schandalen.
Echt geen opbeurend verhaal maar wel een dat verteld had moeten worden, wat Kertzer voortreffelijk heeft gedaan. ( )
  rvdm61 | Oct 7, 2018 |
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History. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:PULITZER PRIZE WINNER  ? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XI??s secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolini??s spies inside the highest levels of the Church, will forever change our understanding of the Vatican??s role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.

 
The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of two men who came to power in 1922, and together changed the course of twentieth-century history. In most respects, they could not have been more different. One was scholarly and devout, the other thuggish and profane. Yet Pius XI and ??Il Duce? had many things in common. They shared a distrust of democracy and a visceral hatred of Communism. Both were prone to sudden fits of temper and were fiercely protective of the prerogatives of their office. (??We have many interests to protect,? the Pope declared, soon after Mussolini seized control of the government in 1922.) Each relied on the other to consolidate his power and achieve his political goals.
 
In a challenge to the conventional history of this period, in which a heroic Church does battle with the Fascist regime, Kertzer shows how Pius XI played a crucial role in making Mussolini??s dictatorship possible and keeping him in power. In exchange for Vatican support, Mussolini restored many of the privileges the Church had lost and gave in to the pope??s demands that the police enforce Catholic morality. Yet in the last years of his life??as the Italian dictator grew ever closer to Hitler??the pontiff??s faith in this treacherous bargain started to waver. With his health failing, he began to lash out at the Duce and threatened to denounce Mussolini??s anti-Semitic racial laws before it was too late. Horrified by the threat to the Church-Fascist alliance, the Vatican??s inner circle, including the future Pope Pius XII, struggled to restrain the headstrong pope from destroying a partnership that had served both the Church and the dictator for many years.
 
The Pope and Mussolini brims with memorable portraits of the men who helped enable the reign of Fascism in Italy: Father Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Pius??s personal emissary to the dictator, a wily anti-Semite known as Mussolini??s Rasputin; Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy, an object of widespread derision who lacked the stature??literally and figuratively??to stand up to the domineering Duce; and Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, whose political skills and ambition made him Mussolini??s most powerful ally inside the Vatican, and positioned him to succeed the pontiff as the controversial Pius XII, whose actions during World War II would be subject for debate for decades to come.
 
With the recent opening of the Vatican archives covering Pius XI??s papacy, the full story of the Pope??s complex relationship with his Fascist partner can finally be told. Vivid, dramatic, with surprises at every turn, The Pope and Mussoli

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