The Global Pontificate of Pius XII

Introduction: Conservative Continuities and Roads to Reform in a Global Catholic Church

Simon Unger-Alvi and Nina Valbousquet



Part I: The Pope, the Archives



Chapter 1. Writing and Rewriting History: The Opening of the Vatican Archives for Pius XII's Pontificate

Giovanni Coco



Chapter 2. Card. Eugenio Pacelli becomes Pius XII: the Mediatization of a Papal Election

Camilla Tenaglia



Chapter 3. The Saints of the Pope: Canonization and beatification in the age of Pius XII

Stefan Samerski



Part II: Peace, War and Genocide



Chapter 4. Anti-Jewish Prejudices, Anti-Semitism, Racism, and the Catholic Church's Attitudes during the Shoah

Tommaso Dell'Era



Chapter 5. "Because the Jews are also prone to exaggeration" Or: Explanations for why Angelo Dell'Acqua's appunto of 2 October 1942 was omitted from the "Actes et Documents"

Hubert Wolf, Jana Haack, Sascha Hinkel, Elisabeth-Marie Richter, Judith Schepers, Barbara Schueler



Chapter 6. The Local church, the Holy See and the rescue practices. The aids to the Jews during the Nazi-Fascist occupation of Florence (1943-1944)

Elena Mazzini and Francesca Cavarocchi



Chapter 7. The German Pope: Pius XII and German War Criminals

Suzanne Brown-Fleming



Part III: Postwar Reconstruction and Politics



Chapter 8. The Pontifical Assistance Commission: from WWII Rome to Postwar Italy

Alessandro Santagata



Chapter 9. Pius XII and Christian Democracy: Between Theology and Politics

Rosario Forlenza and Bjorn Thomassen



Chapter 10. The Condemnation of Worker-Priests and the Nuncio in Paris (1944-1953)

Marta Margotti



Chapter 11. Challenges and Dilemmas of the Papal Diplomacy in front of the Bolshevisation of Czechoslovakia (1945-1950)

Emilia Hrabovec



Chapter 12. Watching the Iron Curtain's Descent: The Church of Austria and its Reactions to the Rise of the Communist Regimes in East Central Europe after the Second World War

Marion Dotter



Part IV: A Global Church in the Postwar Era



Chapter 13. The Holy See and the New World: Asia-Pacific (1945-1953)

Olivier Sibre



Chapter 14. The Vatican and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Humanitarianism, Diplomacy and Interreligious Relations

Maria Chiara Rioli



Chapter 15. Pius XII, the Salazar Regime, and the Colonial Question

Marialuisa Lucia Sergio



Chapter 16. Africanisation and Centralization: Roman Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Late Colonial Period (1930s-1950s)

Edouard Coquet



Conclusion: New Documents for a Revised History

Simon Unger Alvi and Nina Valbousquet