It is a peculiar statue. The work of a well-known Italian sculptor, Francesco Messina, it is set about halfway into Saint Peter’s to the right of the main nave, next to a painting of Saint Sebastian and immediately opposite a statue of Pius XI. Pius XII is standing, in full regalia; his papal cloak envelops him, draped over his shoulders like a protecting towel as if he had j (...)
March 09, 2001
Books
Pius XII: Not Vindicated
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965Michael PhayerIndiana University Press, $29.95, 324 pp.Under His Very Windows The Vatican and the Holocaust in ItalySusan ZuccottiYale University Press, $29.95, 396 pp.
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