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Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII

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Fighting Revisionist History Author of Pope Pius Architect of Peace, Sister Margherita Marchione uses extensive documentation from the war years themselves to combat the campaign of hatred that has smeared Pius XII's name as anti-Semitic. Firsthand sources reveal the Vatican's efforts for peace, as well as the grateful responses of Jewish leaders of the time. Must reading for all thinking Catholics, Consensus and Controversy-- · collects primary source material available no where else. · includes pro-Pius news articles that appeared during and after the war in the London Times, The Tablet, and the New York Times. · reveals that the Nazis themselves targeted the Pope as their enemy, calling him "a mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals." · provides definitive, conclusive, and inspirational proof of Pius XII's efforts to protect the victims of Nazism.

389 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

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Margherita Marchione

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Margherita Marchione è una religiosa, filosofa e biografa italiana della congregazione delle Maestre Pie Filippini, autrice di molti libri, specialmente su papa Pio XII.

Conseguì il dottorato in filosofia alla Columbia University di New York. Attualmente vive nel New Jersey, ed è professore emerito di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana alla Fairleigh Dickinson University di Madison (New Jersey).

È autrice di oltre cinquanta libri, dei quali sono disponibili in italiano i suoi studi su Filippo Mazzei, Clemente Rebora, Giuseppe Prezzolini e Giovanni Boine, e alcuni saggi su papa Pacelli.

È cittadina onoraria di Poggio a Caiano (FI), terra natale di Filippo Mazzei, riguardo al quale ha scritto, e di Pontecagnano (SA), località di dove è originaria la sua famiglia.

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