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The lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII : the Roman Catholic Church and the division of Europe, 1943-1950 /

In The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII Peter Kent shows how the Catholic Church was able to continue to exist on both sides of the Iron Curtain in spite of the division of Europe after the Second World War. Although Christian democracy became increasingly influential in western Europe, the struggle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kent, Peter C., 1938- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The Church and the challenge of communism Introduction
  • The first cold warriors
  • pt. 2. The Roman Catholic Church in the Second World War
  • The Church and the Axis powers
  • The Church under Nazi occupation
  • The Church in the Balkans
  • The Church in the United States
  • The Soviet Union and the Catholic Church
  • The papacy and the Second World War
  • pt. 3. Il dopoguerra : neither war nor peace
  • Papal leadership after the war
  • Early persecution in the Balkans
  • The Catholic majorities of East Central Europe
  • Catholics and European reconstruction
  • The Catholic Church and the occupation of Germany
  • pt. 4. The Cold War begins
  • The martyrdom of Archbishop Stepinac
  • Vatican resistance to the division of Europe
  • The impossibility of Vatican neutrality
  • Communist consolidation and Catholic division
  • The religious Cold War : communist offensive
  • The religious Cold War : Catholic counter-offensive.