Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy : financing the Vatican, 1850-1950
This is a pioneering study of the finances and financiers of the Vatican between 1850 and 1950. Dr Pollard charts the Papacy's gradual transformation into a major financial power and the conflicts this produced both with the Church's social teaching and then with the Allies during World War II.
Print Book, English, 2005
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), 2005
XX, 265 p. ; 23 cm
9780521812047, 0521812046
912371080
1. Introduction; 2. The reign of Pius IX: Vatican finances before and after the fall of Rome (1850–1878); 3. The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878–1903); 4. Vatican finances under the 'Peasant Pope', Pius X (1903–1914); 5. 'The great charitable lord'?: Vatican finances under Benedict XV (1914–1922); 6. 'Economical and prudent bourgeois'?: Pius XI, 1922–1929; 7. The Wall Street crash and Vatican finances in the early 1930s; 8. Vatican finances in an age of global consolidation, 1933–1939; 9. Vatican finances in the reign of Pius XII: the Second World War and the early Cold War, 1939–1950; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.