April 2021 Issue Munro Price Bonaparte Meets His Match To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII By Ambrogio A Caiani
August 2018 Issue John Pollard Behind the Tiara Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World By Paul Collins LR
March 2011 Issue Allan Massie Otto’s Renaissance The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages By Nancy Marie Brown LR
February 2006 Issue Michael Burleigh Rent-A-Moralists At Bay The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis By David G Dalin Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church Saved Half a Million Jews from the Nazis By Ronald J Rychlak LR
April 2005 Issue Michael Burleigh Papal Fallacies The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII By Joseph Bottum and David G Dalin (Ed) LR
July 2013 Issue Peter Sarris Singing in the Temple of Jupiter The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes & Imperial Pretenders By Peter Heather LR
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