Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy : Financing the Vatican, 1850–1950 (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. The reign of Pius IX: Vatican finances before and after the fall of Rome (1850?1878); 3. The Pontificate of Leo XIII (1878?1903); 4. Vatican finances under the 'Peasant Pope', Pius X (1903?1914); 5. 'The great charitable lord'?: Vatican finances under Benedict XV (1914?1922); 6. 'Economical and prudent bourgeois'?: Pius XI, 1922?1929; 7. The Wall Street crash and Vatican finances in the early 1930s; 8. Vatican finances in an age of global consolidation, 1933?1939; 9. Vatican finances in the reign of Pius XII: the Second World War and the early Cold War, 1939?1950; 10. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.