Crux Ansata
Crux Ansata, subtitled 'An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church' by H. G. Wells is a wartime book first published in 1943 by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth : Penguin Special No. 129. The U. S. edition was copyrighted and published in 1944 by Agora Publishing Company, New York, with a portrait frontispiece and an appendix of an interview with Wells recorded by John Rowland. The U.S. edition of 144 pages went into a third printing in August 1946.
H. G. Wells, living in London under the regular bombings from across the English Channel, extensively attacks Pope Pius XII
The book also forms a basic history of the Roman Catholic church and fulfils a positive propaganda role.
