The Catholic Historical Review, January 1st, 2001
The Catholic University of History (Emeritus)
Pope Pius XII. Architect for Peace. By Margherita Marchione. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 345. $22.95 paperback.)
Sister Margherita Marcione has, in the media when the career of Pius XII was an issue, shown thorough scholarship and admirable clarity in expression. It is a delight, therefore, to welcome a full-length study, especially confronting expertly the campaign of falsification directed against the great Pope. The myth of the "silent pope" was put in circulation by a playwright, no historian, Rolf Hochhuth, in Der Stell...
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