Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Romano Prodi
  • Introduction / Charles R. Gallagher
  • Pius XI and American pragmatism / Marisa Patulli Trythall
  • The first steps of "parallel diplomacy": the Vatican and the US in the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936) / Lucia Ceci
  • The case of Charles Coughlin: the view from Rome / Gerald P. Fogarty
  • The United States and the Vatican (1936-1939): from Eugenio Pacelli's visit to the US to Myron Taylor's mission to the Holy See / Giulia D'Alessio
  • The Holy See and Cardinal Mundelein's insult of Hitler (1937) / Robert Trisco
  • American Catholics and the financing of the Vatican in the Great Depression: Peter's pence payments (1935-1938) / John F. Pollard
  • The problem of birth control in the United States under the papacy of Pius XI / Lucia Pozzi
  • Early signs of discord: the Holy See, Britain, and the question of Malta / Aappo Laitinen
  • Pope Pius XI, Eugenio Pacelli and the German Catholic hierarchy (1933-1938) / Suzanne Brown-Fleming
  • Vatican transnationalism: discussant's comments / John A. Davis
  • Irreconcilable differences? Pius XI, Eugenio Pacelli, and Italian fascism from the Ethiopian crisis to the racial laws / Robert A. Ventresca
  • The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and Mussolini's racial laws / Robert A. Maryks
  • The United States, the Holy See and Italy's racial laws / David I. Kertzer and Alessandro Visani
  • The "crusade" of Pius XI against anti-semitism and the "silence" of Pius XII / Frank J. Coppa
  • Pope Pius XI: facing racism and atrocities / Jacques Kornberg
  • The repudiation of totalitarianisms by the late Pius XI / Emma Fattorini
  • Anti-semitism in universities and schools in Romania and Hungary (1920-1938) / Mara Dissegna
  • Pius XI and the racial laws: discussant's comments / Michael R. Marrus.