" WHEN THE POPE AROSE THE NEXT MORNING, HE HAD MADE UP HIS mind. He would engage the German military resistance and encourage a conservative counterrevolution. He would serve as secret foreign agent for the resistance—presenting and guaranteeing its plans to the British. He would partner with the generals not just to stop the war, but to eliminate Nazism by removing Hitler. "

― Mark Riebling , Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler