Kevin Madigan is Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
Many Americans will be surprised, as I was, that one of the Vatican's main worries in the 1930s was a small but successful mission effort of evangelical Protestants in Italy. This would all be comical if were not being played out during the real tragedy of fascism. Madigan masterfully sees all sides of this little-known episode. -Garry Wills