Autorentext
John F. Pollard is a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32: A Study in Conflict (1985).

Klappentext

John Pollard, a leading historian of the papacy, explores the transformation of the Vatican into a major financial power and the part money played in the development of the modern papacy. Using hitherto unexplored sources, he sheds new light on tensions between the Vatican's engagement with capitalism and the Church's social teaching, and conflicts between the Vatican and the Allies during the Second World War and the early Cold War.

Zusammenfassung
This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard charts the Papacy's gradual transformation into a major financial power and the conflicts this produced both with the Church's social teaching and then with the Allies during World War II.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; 2. The reign of Pius IX: Vatican finances before and after the fall of Rome (1850-1878); 3. The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878-1903); 4. Vatican finances under the 'Peasant Pope', Pius X (1903-1914); 5. 'The great charitable lord'?: Vatican finances under Benedict XV (1914-1922); 6. 'Economical and prudent bourgeois'?: Pius XI, 1922-1929; 7. The Wall Street crash and Vatican finances in the early 1930s; 8. Vatican finances in an age of global consolidation, 1933-1939; 9. Vatican finances in the reign of Pius XII: the Second World War and the early Cold War, 1939-1950; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.