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Croatia France Hungary Poland and Slovakia to demonstrate the consistency with which Pius XII and the Vatican avoided confronting the perpetrators of atrocities and strove to keep Catholics within the Church By this measure Pius XII did not betray but fulfilled his papal roleA meticulous and careful analysis of the career of the twentieth century’s most controversial pope The Pope’s Dilemma is an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the Catholic Church’s wartime lega
Jacques Kornberg ´ The Popes Dilemma Book
The Popes DilemmaIsm Delving deep into Catholic theology and ecclesiology Jacues Kornberg argues instead that what drove Pius XII was the belief that his highest priority must be to preserve the authority of the Church and the access to salvation that it providedIn The Pope’s Dilemma Kornberg uses the examples of Pius XII’s immediate predecessors Benedict XV and the Armenian genocide and Pius XI and Fascist Italy as well as case studies of Pius XII’s wartime policies towards five Catholic countries