Naslov
An American View of the Belgrade Episode of Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley: on the book by Charles R. Gallagher, S. J., Vatican Secret Diplomacy. Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII
(Američki pogled na beogradsku epizodu nadbiskupa Josepha P. Hurleyja: o knjizi Charles R. Gallagher, S. J., Vatican Secret Diplomacy. Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII)

Autori
Krišto, Jure

Izvornik
Review of Croatian history (1845-4380) 4 (2009), 1; 213-230

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, osvrt, stručni

Ključne riječi
Critical review; Communism; Hurley; Catholic Church; Stepinac
(Kritički osvrt; komunizam; Hurley; Katolička crkva; Stepinac)

Sažetak
Gallagher's book is about a clergyman and diplomat assigned by the Holy See to head the Vatican’ s mission to Yugoslavia in what were the Catholic Church’ s most trying moments under postwar communist repression. The author is a young Jesuit and the book is his doctoral dissertation defended at the Jesuit Marquette University in Milwaukee. In writing the book, he had at his disposal Hurley’ s personal papers, and he also conducted research in official American archives, while the manuscript was read by several American Jesuits. The author offers some new information and sheds new light on Hurley’ s experience in postwar Belgrade. Unfortunately, he does not know Croatian sources and demonstrates a real misunderstanding of the difficult period for the Church in Croatia at the time of the trial of Zagreb Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac and immediately afterward. Hence, his conclusions reflect American (and Western) prejudices and a real lack of understanding of Communist rule in former Yugoslavia and other parts of Europe.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
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