Table of Contents:
  • Polonia restituta : the Catholic Church and the revival of Poland
  • Il Papa Polacco : the making of Pius XI, 1918-1922
  • From constitution to concordat, 1921-1925
  • Papal blessing : church and state in the Piłsudski era, 1926-1935
  • The friends and enemies of Catholic Poland
  • Vilna and Lwów : the Catholic minorities of eastern Poland
  • Poland, the Orthodox, and the conversion of Russia
  • Post mortem : Piłsudski lies uneasy in the grave
  • Oratio pro pace : Pius XII and the coming of the Second World War.