How the Vatican braced for invasion in World War II
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1John5918
How the Vatican braced for invasion in the Second World War (Catholic Herald)
The COVID-19 pandemic came at the worst time for scholars and historians who had been waiting for the March 2 opening of the Vatican archives’ material that spans the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII. As part of efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Vatican’s Apostolic Archives — made up of more than 600 archival collections — are closed until further notice.
However, one unique collection of wartime documents had been accessed and studied before the nationwide lockdown: the archives of the Pontifical Gendarmes. The findings, including some never-before-published discoveries, were made available in a recently published book in Italian, “Il Vaticano nella Tormenta” (“The Vatican in the Storm”) by Cesare Catananti... Catananti provides plenty of details of these events from 1940 to 1944...
Touchstones don't seem to work for this book or the author.
The COVID-19 pandemic came at the worst time for scholars and historians who had been waiting for the March 2 opening of the Vatican archives’ material that spans the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII. As part of efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Vatican’s Apostolic Archives — made up of more than 600 archival collections — are closed until further notice.
However, one unique collection of wartime documents had been accessed and studied before the nationwide lockdown: the archives of the Pontifical Gendarmes. The findings, including some never-before-published discoveries, were made available in a recently published book in Italian, “Il Vaticano nella Tormenta” (“The Vatican in the Storm”) by Cesare Catananti... Catananti provides plenty of details of these events from 1940 to 1944...
Touchstones don't seem to work for this book or the author.
22wonderY
I don't find it in search, nor in your catalog, John. Have you added it?
Perhaps no one else has either, yet.
Perhaps no one else has either, yet.
3John5918
>2 2wonderY:
No, I don't have it as I don't read Italian. I just thought someone might have added it, but apparently not.
No, I don't have it as I don't read Italian. I just thought someone might have added it, but apparently not.
52wonderY
>1 John5918: From that same article:
"During that period, the gendarmes had to... figure out how to deal with the unauthorized comings-and-goings of escaped prisoners of war whom an Irish monsignor was helping in a clandestine church-run network
...
Catananti wrote that the surviving documents -- some were destroyed in the 1970s from water damage after a pipe burst -- showed the many ways the Vatican tried to navigate two completely different tracks: enforcing respect for its sovereignty and neutrality in a time of war and opening its arms to anyone in need.
"Even if the written orders to the gendarmes were to 'turn away' people, the actual praxis being followed was 'welcoming' people. The words of the Gospel were, in essence, the true law to be respected," he wrote."
This must reference Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, written about in The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican and portrayed by Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and the Black
"During that period, the gendarmes had to... figure out how to deal with the unauthorized comings-and-goings of escaped prisoners of war whom an Irish monsignor was helping in a clandestine church-run network
...
Catananti wrote that the surviving documents -- some were destroyed in the 1970s from water damage after a pipe burst -- showed the many ways the Vatican tried to navigate two completely different tracks: enforcing respect for its sovereignty and neutrality in a time of war and opening its arms to anyone in need.
"Even if the written orders to the gendarmes were to 'turn away' people, the actual praxis being followed was 'welcoming' people. The words of the Gospel were, in essence, the true law to be respected," he wrote."
This must reference Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, written about in The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican and portrayed by Gregory Peck in The Scarlet and the Black
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