Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945

DAVID B. WOOLNER is Executive Director of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Assistant Professor of History at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA. He is the editor of The Second Quebec Conference Revisited: Waging War, Formulating Peace - Canada, Great Britain and the United States in 1944-1945 (Palgrave, 1998).RICHARD KURIAL is Dean of Arts and Associate Professor of History at the University of Prince Island in Charlottetown, Canada. He is completing Visions of an Arctic Empire: The Diplomatic Wrangle over Wrangel Island.

"Taken as a set, these stimulating essays shed new light upon the complex relationships between Franklin Roosevelt and the American Catholic community during the New Deal and between the United States and the Vatican during World War II. The book covers a remarkable range of personalities, issues and controversies and is especially insightful in exploring the multifaceted wartime diplomacy between Pius XII and the Roosevelt administration. These essays avoid polemics and deepen genuine historical understanding of an important subject." - Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame "David Woolner and Richard Kurial have put together by far the most stimulating and readable account of the remarkable relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Catholic hierarchy. A patrician Protestant president, FDR, as this book shows in rich and lively detail, appealed to Catholic Americans to sustain him and defied critical Protestant opinion by naming the first U.S. ambassador to the Vatican." - William E. Leuchtenburg, Author of The FDR Years and of In the Shadow of FDR: from Harry Truman to George W. Bush "This collection of papers is a useful volume, providing information, insight, and references and questions for further research for the scholar as well as for the interested reader." - James F. Garneau, The Catholic Historical Review

• PART I: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND AMERICAN CATHOLICS Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Protestant Patrician in a Catholic Party; M.Barone Roosevelt and the American Catholic Hierarchy; G.P.Fogarty PART II: CATHOLIC FRIENDS/CATHOLIC FOES: THE NEW DEAL AND AMERICAN CATHOLICISM John A. Ryan, the New Deal, and the Catholic Understandings of a Culture of Abundance; A.Burke Smith Al and Frank: The Great Smith-Roosevelt Debate; R.A.Slayton California Catholics and the Gubernatorial Election of 1934; S.M.Avella The Practical Personalism of the Catholic Worker and the Pragmatic Policies of the New Deal; F.Sicius Father Francis E. Lucey and President Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Neo-Scholastic Scholar's Ambivalent Reaction to the New Deal; A.K.Mehrotra Religious Liberty in American Foreign Policy, 1933-1941: Aspects of Public Argument between FDR and American Roman Catholics; P.Chen PART III: SEARCHING FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER: FDR, THE VATICAN, AND WORLD WAR II Pope Pius XII and the Myron Taylor Mission: The Vatican and American War-Time Diplomacy; J.Conway Catholics, Jews, and the Bombardment of Rome: The Priorities of Pius XII During the Second World War; M.Phayer Toward the Reconstitution of Christian Europe: The War Aims of the Papacy, 1939-1945; P.C.Kent Diplomacy's Detractors: American Protestant Reaction to FDR's 'Personal Representative at the Vatican; M.H.Carter The Department of State and the Apostolic Delegation in Washington During World War II; R.Trisco A Few Bits of Information: American Intelligence and the Vatican, 1939-1945; D.Alvarez A Peculiar Brand of Patriotism: The Holy See, FDR, and the Case of Reverend Charles E. Coughlin; C.R.Gallagher PART IV: REFLECTIONS ON THE SHOAH Remarks on the Purpose of the Document 'We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah'; Rev. Dr. R.Hoeckman, O.P. - Secretary of the Holy See's Commission For Religious Relations with the Jews