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To Kidnap A Pope
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Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-25
To Kidnap A Pope written by Ambrogio A. Caiani and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-25 with History categories.
A groundbreaking account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Pope Pius VII, and the kidnapping that would forever divide church and state In the wake of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalizing an agreement in 1801, relations between them rapidly deteriorated. In 1809, Napoleon ordered the Pope’s arrest. Ambrogio Caiani provides a pioneering account of the tempestuous relationship between the emperor and his most unyielding opponent. Drawing on original findings in the Vatican and other European archives, Caiani uncovers the nature of Catholic resistance against Napoleon’s empire; charts Napoleon’s approach to Papal power; and reveals how the Emperor attempted to subjugate the church to his vision of modernity. Gripping and vivid, this book shows the struggle for supremacy between two great individuals—and sheds new light on the conflict that would shape relations between the Catholic church and the modern state for centuries to come.
Kidnapping The Pope
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Author : Leonard F. Badia
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2014-11-18
Kidnapping The Pope written by Leonard F. Badia and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-18 with Religion categories.
Vatican Secretary of State, Domenico delgli Alfieri, a liberal, has organized a plot, in alliance with a Russian and a Latino, to kidnap the Pope while on a skiiing trip, and replace him with a look-alike Swill Guard, Luciano. The idea is for this bogus pope to begin to move the Church in a more liberal direction. The current real pope is a conservative. However, Carlo Maestoso, a priest at the Vatican, friendly with the real pope, smells a rat . He manages to find out where the real pope has been hidden, and unites him with the sympathetic police. Delgli Alfieri is prepared to march his bogus pope out into St. Peter s Square to make a definitive speech. At the same time, Maestoso and his forces are ready to stop them and to be sure that the real pope gets into the square. Meanwhile, a mentally deranged Bulgarian woman, Maria Penkova, is in the square with the intentions to assassinate the pope using a stun gun which she had hidden in her back pack. A fight ensues between the two groups in the Courtyard of Damascus just outside the square, and it is not clear until the very end who wins, and who gets killed by Maria. Author Bio: Msgr. Leonard F. Badia, Ph.D., holds a doctor s degree in Religious Education from New York University. As a noted Vatican Affairs Consultant, he is a recognized scholar in Catholic, Jewish and Muslim affairs. Dr. Michael F. Copobianco, world known author, lecturer and professor of Mathematics, teaches at St. John s University, New York. He has been writing and translating for over thirty years.
A Special Mission
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Author : Dan Kurzman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2007-05-07
A Special Mission written by Dan Kurzman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-07 with History categories.
In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome with plans to deport Rome's Jews to Auschwitz. Hitler also ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler's chief aide, to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII. But Wolff began playing a dangerous game: stalling Hitler's kidnap plot, while blackmailing the pope into silence as the Jews were rounded up. This tale of intrigue and betrayal is one of the most important untold stories of World War II, and A Special Mission is the only book to give the full incredible account of Hitler's kidnap plot and its far-reaching consequences.
The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara
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Author : David I. Kertzer
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-12-30
The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara written by David I. Kertzer and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with History categories.
Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.
Kidnap The Pope
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Author : Jack DuArte
language : en
Publisher: Cloud 9 Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Kidnap The Pope written by Jack DuArte and has been published by Cloud 9 Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Adolf Hitler is maddened when his ally and friend Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is ousted from power. Believing that nothing happens in Italy without the consent of the Catholic Church and the Pope himself, the German Fuhrer decides to avenge Mussolini. He orders a high-ranking SS General to develop a plan to invade the Vatican and kidnap the pope. SS General Karl Wolff is placed in a dilemma... follow his personal feelings on the disturbing order or directly disobey a direct order from Hitler. Kidnap the Pope follows the non-stop action of WWII and the countries involved. Can the Vatican be saved and can Pope Pius XII continue his diplomatic efforts on behalf of his church and its followers?
Day They Kidnapped The Pope
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Author : Joan Bethencourt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Day They Kidnapped The Pope written by Joan Bethencourt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Consensus And Controversy
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Author : Margherita Marchione
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 2002
Consensus And Controversy written by Margherita Marchione and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Christianity and antisemitism categories.
From the author of the controversial "Pope Pius XII: Architect of Peace" comes her strongest defense of the former pope yet. Fighting revisionist history that has smeared Pius XII's name as anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, Marchione collects extensive documentation from the war years that paints an entirely different picture.
Kidnapped By The Vatican
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Author : Vittorio Messori
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2017-08-31
Kidnapped By The Vatican written by Vittorio Messori and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1888 Fr. Edgardo Mortara wrote his autobiography so that the world would understand he had not been kidnapped by the Vatican. Here, along with a thorough introduction by Vittorio Messori, his story is published for the first time in English. As an infant, Mortara was on the point of death and secretly baptized by a Catholic servant employed by his family. He recovered his health, and in the Papal States where his family lived, the law required that he, like other baptized children, receive a Christian education. After several failed attempts to persuade his parents to enroll him in a local Catholic school, in 1858 Pope Pius IX had the boy taken from his family in Bologna and sent to a Catholic boarding school in Rome. There the child grew in Faith and eventually responded to the calling to become a Catholic priest. The Mortara Case reverberated around the world. Journalists, politicians, and Jewish leaders tried to pressure Pius IX to reverse his decision. The pope's refusal to do so was used as one of the reasons to dissolve the Papal States in 1870. Currently the case is being used as an argument against the canonization of Pius IX, whom John Paul II beatified in 2000.
Church Of Spies
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Author : Mark Riebling
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Church Of Spies written by Mark Riebling and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with History categories.
The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled "Hitler's Pope" -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler -- while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files by an acclaimed author, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. Riebling reveals here how the world's greatest moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history.
The Pope S Jews
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Author : Gordon Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-10-02
The Pope S Jews written by Gordon Thomas and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with History categories.
This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during WWII shows why history must exonerate "Hitler's Pope" Accused of being "silent" during the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII and the Vatican of World War II are now exonerated in Gordon Thomas's newest investigative work, The Pope's Jews. Thomas's careful research into new, first-hand accounts reveal an underground network of priests, nuns and citizens that risked their lives daily to protect Roman Jews. Investigating assassination plots, conspiracies, and secret conversions, Thomas unveils faked documentation, quarantines, and more extraordinary actions taken by Catholics and the Vatican. The Pope's Jews finally answers the great moral question of the War: Why did Pope Pius XII refuse to condemn the genocide of Europe's Jews?