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... Cardinal Luigi Poggi , nicknamed " the Pope's Spy " ( John Paul II being the pope in question ) , carried out one of the largest modernizations of the Holy Alliance by taking advantage of his close contacts with the Israeli Mossad ...
... cardinal on him . From then on , Ghislieri the Inquisitor became ever more dangerous and powerful . Many members of the College of Cardinals did not want to let him chart the future of the Catholic Church from his post atop the feared ...
... Cardinal Ghislieri and some of his men managed to preserve a large part of the secret archives , which accompanied them in eight carriages in their flight from Rome . At last , normalcy returned when , on December 25 , 1559 , Cardinal ...
... Cardinals assembled once again after Pius IV's death on December 9 , 1565. Curiously , after three weeks of deliberations , Pius IV's key advisor , Cardinal Carlo Borromeo , decided to support the candidacy of Ghislieri , which was ...
... Cardinals had chosen a new pope : Cardinal Hugo Boncompagni , who received key support from Philip II.18 Boncompagni ... Cardinal Parisio , un- der whose aegis he began his career in the Roman curia . In spite of his legal background and ...
Contents
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Times of Action 15871605 | 50 |
New Horizons 16051644 | 65 |
Era of Expansion 16441691 | 81 |
Time of Intrigue 16911721 | 96 |
Some Brief Reigns 17211775 | 110 |
Rise of the Terror 19341940 | 229 |
The End of the ThousandYear Reich 19401945 | 247 |
Odessa and the Vatican Ratline 19461958 | 268 |
New Alliances 19581976 | 285 |
Vatican Inc and Gods Business 19761978 | 302 |
Time of the Assassins 19791982 | 318 |
The Polish Years 19822005 | 335 |
The Years to Come Benedict XVI | 352 |
The Rise and Fall of Eagles 17751823 | 124 |
An Era of Spies 18231878 | 140 |
The League of the Impious 18781914 | 160 |
The Horseman of the Apocalypse 19141917 | 177 |
Intriguing Toward Peace 19171922 | 197 |
Era of the Dictators 19221934 | 211 |
List of Popes Since the Creation of the Holy Alliance | 373 |
Notes | 375 |
Bibliography | 399 |
Archives Consulted | 407 |
Index | 409 |
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The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage Eric Frattini,MICHAEL MUNN No preview available - 2010 |