World War I was a disaster that Dr. John Rao shows the Church had long predicted and Pope Benedict was slandered for trying to end. The Church held only limited hopes for the Peace of Paris following the conflict as well. The only future that Pius XI saw for the European world was to build the peace upon the idea of Christ as King of society. Taken from: The Church of Eugenio Pacelli - 2000 VonHildebrand Institute