Book review: God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican by Gerald Posner Italian banker Roberto Calvi’s body is found hanging from Blackfriar’s Bridge in London on June 18, 1982, bringing to an end another chapter in Italy’s made-for-TV sa ...
12 Apr 2015 - John Barker
The history of fascim in Italy has been too kind to the Roman Catholic Church and its leader at the time, Pope Pius XI. In his book “ The Pope and Mussolini,” professor David I. Kertzer provides a sharp corrective to the record in his groundbreaking, acce ...
9 Jan 2015 - George Howland Jr