You wrote:
“It’s a fascinating book about “La Popessa.” I’ve read it. Have you?”
Wait. Are you sure YOU read it?
Here is what one reviewer wrote at Amazon.com:
“The book puts the lie once and for all to the notion that the Catholic Church abandoned Jews to Hitler during WWII. In fact, as the book reveals, the Papacy saved more Jews from the Germans than all other public and private relief agencies combined. Pius XII, a master of diplomacy, negotiated brilliantly with the Nazi commandant of the German occupation force to bring this about.”
Wow, the book you tout actually vindicates EXACTLY what we have been saying about Pius XII? Gee, that is FASCINATING!
The reviewer finishes with:
“Highly recommended. A real poke in the eye for revisionists, bigots and racists - who have been screaming about it ever since it was published.”
Huh, imagine that?!
However, you and Titanites seem to disagree because you provide glowing reviews from people who surely must have read the book and couldn't possibly be planted stooges on Amazon, while Titanites is offering a very negative review of the book.
Someone must be telling tales, don't you think? Here's another review from Amazon...
What is one to say about a concoction allegedly based on her life, appearing in the United States under the title La Popessa? This is a world apart from the genuine memoirs of the nun; it is a world of arbitrary invention, carried at times to the wildest extremes. I refrain from giving examples, with which I could fill scores of pages of this book. Sister Pascalina was simply the Pope's housekeeper, yet to her is attributed a throughout [sic] knowledge of the most involved Church affairs, a memory of conversations of sixty years earlier, a brashness in dealing with high ecclesiastics, and power and influence over the Pope, all utterly without documentation, utterly unbelievable: she actually composed with the Pope one of the greatest theological encyclicals in the history of the Papacy, Mystici Corporis Christi! "The pseudo-Pascalina book", says Fr Graham, "is at best a practical joke on an unsuspecting public. At worst, it is a new low in U.S. book publishing."
So which is it? A great book that vindicates Pacelli or another book that slanders him and his "secretary."
To me "La Popess" is, as I said, a fascinating read and a further glimpse into the very strange life of Pacelli and those who have and continue to defend him.