The career of Eugenio Pacelli--Pope Pius XII--from the beginning of this century is the story of a bid for unprecedented papal power that by 1933 had drawn the Catholic Church into complicity with the darkest forces of the era. . . . Eugenio Pacelli was no monster; his case is far more complex, more tragic than that. The interest of his story depends on a fatal combination of high spiritual aspirations in conflict with soaring ambition for power and control. The condequences were collusion with tryanny and, ultimately, violence.

I have tried a couple of times to get into this. I am going to let this one go.

Enjoy! For Allergic to "A" release challenge 2017 -- no A in title or author