He is the author of The Pope Who Would be King (Random House, 2018) and The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, (Random House, 2014), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2015 and the American Historical Association prize for best book in Italian history. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University. Please register at or 31 so we can appropriately plan. Local independent bookseller Left Bank Books will be on site for purchase of Professor Kertzer’s book.
Graham Chapel is open seating and doors will open at 6:00 p.m. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. Louis University Division of Mission and Identity, and the John C. Louis Jewish Book Festival, the Office of Peace & Justice of the Archdiocese of St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, St. Sponsored by the Michael and Barbara Newmark Institute for Human Relations at the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. The book clears away the myths and sheer falsehoods surrounding the pope’s actions from 1939 to 1945, showing why the pope repeatedly bent to the wills of Hitler and Mussolini.
In 2020, Pius XII’s archives were finally opened, and David Kertzer-widely recognized as one of the world’s leading Vatican scholars-has been mining this new material ever since, revealing how the pope came to set aside moral leadership in order to preserve his church’s power.īased on thousands of never-before-seen documents not only from the Vatican, but from archives in Italy, Germany, France, Britain, and the United States, The Pope at War paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped the continent and as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe’s Jews.
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