Crux Ansata, subtitle 'An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church' by H. G. Wells is a (96 page) wartime book first published in 1943 by Penguin Books, Hammonsworth (Great Britain): Penguin Special No. 129. The U. S. edition, jacket front shown, was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Company, New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix on pages 140-143 of an interview with Wells recorded by Mr. John Rowland, interview which first appeared March 1944 in the London Literary Guide. The U.S. edition of 144 pages went into a third printing in August 1946.

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...

 , then recently retired from his ministerial post (Minister of Allied Propaganda), and living in London under the regular bombings from across the English Channel extensively attacks Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII

The Venerable Pope Pius XII , born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli , reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958....

and Roman Catholicism, beginning his polemic with "Why do we not bomb Rome?"

The book also forms a basic history of the Church and fulfils a positive propaganda role.
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