Frank J. Coppa
Contributor
LOCATION: Jamaica, NY, United States
Professor of History, St. Johns University, New York, New York. Author of The Origins of the Italian Wars of Independence. Editor of Encyclopedia of the Vatican and Papacy.
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Pius XII was the pope, bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church, who had a long, tumultuous, and controversial pontificate (1939–58). During his reign as pope, the papacy confronted the ravages of World War II (1939–45), the abuses of the Nazi, fascist, and Soviet regimes, the horror of…
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