The 18 papers explore the impact of Pius XI, Pope from 1922 until his death in 1939, on the US, a country he never visited. The topics include the Vatican and the US in the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-36, the Holy See and Chicago Cardinal Mundelein's insult of Hitler in 1937, the problem of birth control in the US under the papacy of Pius XI, Vatican transnationalism, the "crusade" of Pius XI against anti-Semitism and the "silence" of Pius XII, and the repudiation of totalitarianisms by the late Pius XI. Only names are indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
