The Pope's Last Crusade

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Sinopsis

A conspiracy within the Vatican—to stop an outspoken Pope

In 1938, Pope Pius XI was the world's most prominent critic of Hitler and his rhetoric of ethnic "purity." To make his voice heard, Pius called upon a relatively unknown American Jesuit whose writing about racism in America had caught the Pope's attention. Pius enlisted John LaFarge to write a papal encyclical—the Vatican's strongest decree—publicly condemning Hitler, Mussolini, and their murderous Nazi campaign against the Jews.

At the same time conservative members of the Vatican's innermost circle were working in secret to suppress the document. Chief among them was Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, whose appeasement of the Germans underlay a deep-running web of conspiracy. Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII, was joined by Wlodimir Ledóchowski, leader of the Jesuit order, to keep the finished encyclical from reaching the increasingly ill Pope.

Peter Eisner, award-winning reporter and author of the critically acclaimed The Freedom Line, combines shocking new evidence (released only recently from Vatican archives) and eyewitness testimony to create a compelling journey into the heart of the Vatican and a little-known story of an American's partnership with the head of the Catholic Church. A truly essential work, it brings staggering new light to one of the most critical junctures in modern history.

Capítulos

  • ThePopesLastCrusade_01_Open

    Duración: 16s
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_02_Prologue

    Duración: 08min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_03_Chapter1

    Duración: 24min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_04_Chapter2

    Duración: 33min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_05_Chapter3

    Duración: 28min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_06_Chapter4

    Duración: 36min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_07_Chapter5

    Duración: 33min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_08_Chapter6

    Duración: 34min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_09_Chapter7

    Duración: 38min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_10_Chapter8

    Duración: 44min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_11_Chapter9

    Duración: 31min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_12_Chapter10

    Duración: 22min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_13_Chapter11

    Duración: 31min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_14_Chapter12

    Duración: 39min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_15_Chapter13

    Duración: 32min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_16_Epilogue

    Duración: 24min
  • ThePopesLastCrusade_17_Credits

    Duración: 35s
  • sample

    Duración: 01min