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A Bridge Across the Ocean: The United States and the Holy See between the Two World Wars Luca Castagna
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A Bridge Across the Ocean: The United States and the Holy See between the Two World Wars
Luca Castagna
Foreward by Gerald P. Fogarty, SJ
Afterword by Luigi Rossi
A Bridge across the Ocean focuses on the relations between the United States and the Holy See from the First World War to the eve of the Second, through the combination of American, Italian, and Vatican sources. More than an overall picture of the American and Vatican foreign policy during the first half of the twentieth century, the book analyzes the U. S.-Vatican rapprochement in a multifaceted way, considering both the international and the internal sphere. A Bridge across the Ocean discusses the spread of anti-Catholicism in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and its repercussions on the American administrations' behavior during and after the Versailles Conference, together with the changes that occurred in the Holy See's attitude toward the American church and the White House after the election of Pope Pius XI. Luca Castagna explores the convergence of the New Deal legislation with the church's social thought, and demonstrates how the partial U. S.-Vatican rapprochement in 1939 resulted from Roosevelt and Pacelli's common aim to cooperate, as two of the most important and global moral powers in the struggle against Nazi-fascism.
A Bridge across the Ocean deepens our understanding of American
and church history during the first half of the twentieth Century, from the church-state relations to the identification of diplomatic strategies and priorities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luca Castagna is at the University of Salerno.
224 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 30, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813225876 |
| Publishers | The Catholic University of America Press |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 23 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |
