The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal: Celso Costantini's Wartime Diaries, 1938-1947

On 19 April 1940 Celso Costantini prophetically wrote in his diary that if Italy followed Hitler into war, it would be allying itself with the "Anti-Christ." Within weeks, Mussolini's fascist regime plunged Italy into the destructive maelstrom of global military conflict. The ensuing years brought world war, the fall of fascism, occupation, liberation, and the emergence of a new political order.

The Secrets of a Vatican Cardinal is an extraordinary and detailed behind-the-scenes account of c...