"Nazis of Copley Square" Book Talk

The Friends of the Charlestown Branch Library will be hosting a book talk given by Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., who has written “a great, but deeply unsettling, revelation” — as stated in the Boston Globe’s review — a revelation entitled: “Nazis of Copley Square: the Forgotten Story of the Christian Front.”

Fr. Gallagher chronicles the evolution of the front, the transatlantic cloak-and-dagger intelligence operations that subverted it, and the mainstream political and religious leaders who shielded the front’s activities from scrutiny. Nazis of Copley Square is a grim tale of faith perverted to violent ends, and a warning for those who hope to curb the spread of far-right ideologies today.

Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J. is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. His book Vatican Secret Diplomacy won the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association.