Introduction 1. Catholicism on the eve of the Great War in Germany and Austria-Hungary 2. Theology and catastrophe 3. The limits of religious authority: military chaplaincy and the bounds of clericalism 4. Faith in the trenches: Catholic battlefield piety during the Great War 5. The unquiet home front 6. A voice in the wilderness: the papacy 7. Memory, mourning, and the Catholic way of war Conclusion Sources Index.
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