Frank J. Coppa
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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, from 1939 to 1958. He had a long, tumultuous, and controversial pontificate. During his reign, the papacy confronted the ravages of World War II (1939β45), the abuses of the Nazi, fascist, and Soviet regimes, the horror ofβ¦
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