Table of Contents

1. The Quest Begins; 2. The Design Unfolds; 3. Enter Pasqualina; 4. The Attack at the Nunciature; 5. The Best Informed Diplomat in Germany; 6. Secretary of State; 7. Shaking Hands with the Devil; 8. The Flying Cardinal; 9. With Deep Anxiety; 10. Pastor Angelicus; 11. Darkness over the Earth; 12. Ecclesiastical Lust; 13. The Croatian Genocide; 14. The Final Solution; 15. The War in Rome; 16. An Uneasy Peace; 17. The Great Design; 18. The Church of Silence; 19. Casa Pastor Angelicus; 20. The Verdicts of History; 21. Pope Pius X11: An Apologia.

About the Author

The Hon Gerard Noel was a former editor of The Catholic Herald. He is also a celebrated biographer and historian. His life of Queen Ena of Spain was widely acclaimed as were his books on Harold Wilson and Cardinal Hume.

Reviews

"This biographical work examines how Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII, reacted to the politics of World War II, focusing on the Pope's failure to confront the atrocities of the Nazis, in particular the genocide of the European Jews, and his willingness to place the Catholic Church in concordat with Mussolini and other fascist forces. It places Pius's personal frailties in the context of longstanding papal politics and concludes with a defense of Pius/Pacelli as an individual rather than as a Pope." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.