text: I'll venture you've read neither book and so are in no position to declare "more of the same." By the way, no one said Mussolini was Hitler. The issue concerned the transition from the papacy of Pius XI to that of Pius XII and the Vatican intrigue undermining Pius XI's growing hostility toward Mussolini as well as Vatican overtures toward Hitler. I could start dragging out quotations from the primary sources, but I'll leave it to interested parties to read the book for themselves.
  
  Do list even a few of my "inexhaustible supply of anti-Catholic authors." You can't do it.
  
  Speaking of Jenkins, it reminds me of the time I was accused of being anti-Catholic for quoting from a book I'd read, "Jesus Wars." The author? Philip Jenkins.