A thorough analysis of the mid-20th Century papacy. Roncalli served as Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece in the 1930s, residing in Istnabul. "Some of his decisions even contravene all he has been taught, as when he issued false baptisimal certificates to some four thousand Jews, thus enabling them to escape as Christians the Nazi Holocaust. Theologically, canonically, diplomatically, pietistically, it was wrong. Humanly, as a unique means, it was right."
[My copy is the first edition NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972]
[My copy is the first edition NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972]
