By Robert A. Ventresca
ISBN-10: 0674049616
ISBN-13: 9780674049611
Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII and his canonization are so heated they're often called the “Pius wars.” Soldier of Christ strikes past competing caricatures and considers Pius XII as Eugenio Pacelli, a fallacious and talented guy. whereas providing perception into the pope’s reaction to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca argues that it was once the chilly struggle and Pius XII’s demeanour of enticing with the trendy international that outlined his pontificate.
Laying the foundation for the pope’s debatable, contradictory activities from 1939 to 1958, Ventresca starts with the tale of Pacelli’s Roman upbringing, his highbrow formation in Rome’s seminaries, and his interwar event as papal diplomat and Vatican secretary of country. Accused of ethical equivocation in the course of the Holocaust, Pius XII later fought the unfold of Communism in Western Europe, spoke opposed to the persecution of Catholics in japanese Europe and Asia, and tackled quite a number social and political concerns. by way of appointing the 1st indigenous cardinals from China and India and increasing missions in Africa whereas expressing harmony with independence hobbies, he internationalized the church’s club and moved Catholicism past the colonial mentality of past eras.
Drawing from a variety of foreign assets, together with unexplored documentation from the Vatican, Ventresca finds a paradoxical determine: a prophetic reformer of constrained imaginative and prescient whose management either motivated the emergence of an international Catholicism and sowed doubt and dissension between a few of the church’s such a lot devoted servants.
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Unlike the seminarians he studied with in Rome, many of whom came from poor peasant families with no access to a high-�quality education, Eugenio Pacelli enjoyed a privileged classical preparation of the kind that state schools such as the Visconti offered in those days. That meant a solid grounding in Ital�ian, Latin and Greek, his�tory and ge�og�ra� phy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and philosophy and ethics. The young Pacelli had a particular affinity for the study of the classical languages and for his�tory, but above all for poetry and literature.
43 In 1885, at the age of nine, Eugenio Pacelli was enrolled in secondary school at the Liceo-�Ginnasio Ennio Quirino Visconti. The Visconti was housed in the historic Collegio Romano, an institute founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Je�su�its in the mid-�1500s to give seminarians a solid educational and cultural foundation. The Roman College counted some of the most formidable minds of the Counter-�Reformation Church as both students and teachers, including Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino, Cardinal Pietro Pallavicino Sforza, and Saint Luigi Gonzaga.
His was a selective reading of hisÂ�tory, to be sure, but in some senses the seeds of Pacelli’s poÂ�litÂ�iÂ�cal philosophy were being sown. He may not yet have had the intellectual tools or the formal training in theology, hisÂ�tory, or philosophy to express it precisely, but already the future Pius XII was grappling with a doctrine of church-Â�state relations that saw the church and civil society€ as distinct and autonomous but also inextricably linked. There was no desire to return to the confessional state of old in which church and state were fused, no trace of a desire to restore the papal states of his grandfather’s€generation.
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