The Life and Pontificate of Pope Pius Xii: between history and controversy
ISBN: 9780813220253
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Catholic University of America Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Pius XII Pope 1876–1958; Popes -- Biography;

Written by one of the foremost historians of Pius XII, the present biographical study, unlike the greater part of the vast and growing historiography of Pope Pius XII, is a balanced and nonreactive account of his life and times. Its focus is not on the pope's silence during the Holocaust, though it does address the issue in a historical and objective framework. This is a biography of the man as well as the pope. It probes the roots of his traditionalism and legalism, his approach to modernity and reformism in Church and society, and the influences behind his policies and actions.

Frank J. Coppa is an American historian, author, and educator who has written widely on the Papacy in history as well as on Italian historical topics.

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