Scholar discusses 'Pope's secret back channel to Hitler' (The Atlantic)

David Kertzer, a Brown University professor who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his work on Vatican-Italian relations under Pope Pius XI and Mussolini, has written a new book on Pope Pius XII, Hitler, and Mussolini. This article is an excerpt from the book.

In a recent New York Times article, historian Michael Hesemann said that Kertzer is “heavily biased.”