Download or read book Gli ebrei salvati da Pio XII written by Antonio Gaspari and published by Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes issue with critics of Pius XII, especially John Cornwell ("Hitler's Pope, " 1999), who attack the Pope's silence and lack of action in relation to the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. Relates initiatives of the Pope to save Jewish lives in order to prove that he was not inactive in this regard. also mentions several gestures of gratitude to the Pope made by Jewish individuals and institutions after the war.
Download or read book Pius XII the Holocaust and the Revisionists written by Patrick J. Gallo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli became Pope Pius XII in 1939, the Nazis had invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia and were poised to strike Poland. Jews and other minorities were already being sent to concentration camps, and the world was on the verge of another horrific war. The prevailing historical interpretation of the era was that Pius XII had a stated anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist policy; he tried to bring an end to the persecution and gave aid and comfort to those who were persecuted. Revisionist views, however, portray Pius XII as a silent, passive individual who ignored the treatment of Jews, Christians and other minorities--a man who could have stopped the holocaust and didn't. Through a series of articles and essays, the editor and eight contributors critique the works of revisionists who allege that Pius XII was sympathetic to the Nazis or unresistant to their atrocities. The essays discuss the roots of these views in the relentless Nazi and communist propaganda of the era, and the debate's revival after a 1960s stage play portrayed the pope as a leader afraid to speak out. By bringing intellectual rigor and responsibility to the issue, this work makes a solid contribution to the history of the papacy and to the biography of Pius XII.
Download or read book Righteous Gentiles written by Ronald J. Rychlak and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relentless band of propagandists has convinced much of the world that Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church, in the face of the great moral crisis of the twentieth century, were little more than Nazi lapdogs. The myth of ?Hitler's pope, ? however, is grounded not in the facts of history but in the ideological agenda of Pius's detractors. Given unprecedented access to Church archives'including a confidential Vatican report on Pius XII?Ronald J. Rychlak documents the heroic response of the Holy Father and countless other Catholics to the plight of Jews under Nazi rule. From the end of World War II until well after his death, Pius XII was universally respected for his leadership in t
Download or read book The Pius War written by David G. Dalin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII_leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War_the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers. These reviewers formulated a brilliant response to the attack on Pius, but their work was scattered in various newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals_making it nearly impossible for the average reader to gauge the results. In The Pius War, Weekly Standard's Joseph Bottum has joined with Rabbi David G. Dalin to gather a representative and powerful sample of these reviews, deliberately chosen from a wide range of publications. Together with a team of professors, historians, and other experts, the reviewers conclusively investigate the claims attacking Pius XII. The Pius War, and a detailed annotated bibliography that follows, will prove to be a definitive tool for scholars and students_destined to become a major resource for anyone interested in questions of Catholicism, the Holocaust, and World War II.
Download or read book Hitler the War and the Pope Revised and Expanded written by Ronald Rychlak and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Pope Pius XII a Nazi Sympathizer? For almost fifty years, a controversy has raged about Pope Pius XII. Was the Pope who had shepherded the Church through World War II a Nazi sympathizer? Was he, as some have dared call him, Hitler's pope? Did he do nothing to help the Jewish people in the grips of the Holocaust? In a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented analysis of the historical record, Ronald Rychlak has gotten past the anger and emotion and uncovered the truth about Pius XII. Not only does he refute the accusations against the Pope, but for the first time documents how the slanders against him had their roots in a Soviet Communist campaign to discredit him and, by extension, the Church. "Let those who doubt but read Rychlak, follow his exquisitely organized courtroon-like arguments. What Professor Rychlak brings to the forum are facts, not rhetoric; dates, not conjecture; evidence, not slander.... The world owes Ronald Rychlak a debt for bringing the truth to light." -- Rabbi Eric A. Silver "In his well-crafted pages...the portrait that emerges is one of an extraordinary pastor facing extremely vexing circumstances, of a holy man vying against an evil man, of a human being trying to save the lives of other human beings, of a light shining in the darkness." -- John Cardinal O'Connor (1920-2000) Archbishop of New York (from the Foreword to the first edition) "I have read many books on Pius XII, and this is by far the most dispassionate in laying out the context, relevant facts, accusations, and evidence pro and con. The book is highly engaging because it is filled with so many little-known facts. The research has been prodigious. Yet the presentation is as down-to-earth as it would have to be in a courtroom.... This is a wonderfully realistic book." -- Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute
Download or read book The Pope and the Holocaust written by Michael Hesemann and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as "Hitler's Pope", accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have even said that the pope was complicit in Hitler's grab for power, privately fueled by a hatred for the Jewish people. And if they are right, who would not join in condemning a leader like this, especially one who claims to represent all Christians? But what if this image of Pius XII is completely backward? Archival and archaeological researcher Michael Hesemann has unearthed thousands of documents—including from the Vatican Secret Archives (or the Vatican Apostolic Archive), only recently opened to scholars—to give a startling picture of Eugenio Pacelli as a shrewd diplomat and a champion of the Jewish people during World War II. Saving thousands upon thousands of lives, Pius demonstrated such courage and compassion in these times that Jewish leaders across the globe praised him, and the ecumenical Pave the Way Foundation has since nominated him for the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum's Righteous among the Nations award. The Pope and the Holocaust traces Pacelli's fight for peace in the 1930s and 1940s, including his years as apostolic nuncio in Germany, where he resisted Nazism. Even some of his most controversial moves, such as the 1933 Vatican concordat, were made to protect Jewish and Christian lives. What emerges clearly from Hesemann's evidence is a portrait of a man radically committed to the Jews and the revelation God gave to them. As Pope Pius himself remarked in 1938, "It is not legitimate for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. Spiritually, we are all Semites."
Download or read book Antisemitism Christian Ambivalence and the Holocaust written by Kevin P. Spicer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen essays exploring the role of antisemitism in the political and intellectual life of Europe. In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies, and Christian theology examine antisemitism’s insidious role in Europe’s intellectual and political life. The essays reveal that annihilative antisemitic thought was not limited to Germany, but could be found in the theology and liturgical practice of most of Europe’s Christian churches. They dismantle the claim of a distinction between Christian anti-Judaism and neo-pagan antisemitism and show that, at the heart of Christianity, hatred for Jews overwhelmingly formed the milieu of twentieth-century Europe. “This volume’s inclusion of essays on several different Christian traditions, as well as the Jewish perspective on Christian antisemitism make it especially valuable for understanding varieties of Christian antisemitism and ultimately, the practice and consequences of exclusionary thinking in general. In bringing a range of theological and historical perspectives to bear on the question of Christian and Nazi antisemitism, the book broadens our view on the question, and is of great value to historians and theologians alike.” —Maria Mazzenga, Catholic University of America, H-Catholic, February 2009 “Sheds light on and offers steps to overcome the locked-in conflict between Jews and Christians along the antisemitic path from Calvary to Auschwitz and beyond.” —Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College and American Jewish University, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 Fall 2008
Download or read book 2003 written by Susan Sarah Cohen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism by discriminating judiciaries, pogroms, massacres and the systematic extermination during the Nazi period. The bibliography also covers works dealing with philo-Semitism or Jewish reactions to anti-Semitism and Jewish self-hate. An informative abstract in English is provided for each entry, and Hebrew titles are provided with English translations.
Download or read book Consensus and Controversy written by Margherita Marchione and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the controversial "Pope Pius XII: Architect of Peace" comes her strongest defense of the former pope yet. Fighting revisionist history that has smeared Pius XII's name as anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, Marchione collects extensive documentation from the war years that paints an entirely different picture.
Download or read book Pio XII e gli ebrei written by Johan Ickx and published by Rizzoli. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il 2 marzo 1939 il cardinale Eugenio Pacelli veniva eletto papa, e dieci giorni dopo saliva al soglio pontificio con il nome di Pio XII. Fu dunque suo il compito - tutt'altro che sempli- ce - di guidare la Chiesa negli anni terribili del- la Seconda guerra mondiale. A conflitto finito, Pacelli fu salutato come il salvatore di Roma dallo scempio dell'occupazione nazista: politici di primo rango e influenti personalità del mondo ebraico ne elogiarono il comportamento e l'operato. Di lì a poco, però, quella visione cambiò radicalmente. Prima la stampa sovietica poi la celebre pièce teatrale Il vicario lo descrissero all'opinione pubblica sotto tutt'altra luce. Cominciò a serpeggiare la cosiddetta «accusa del Silenzio», che voleva Pio XII omertoso rispetto all'orrore dei campi di concentramento e in buona sostanza complice dei nazisti. Dove stava la verità? Cosa sapeva davvero il papa delle atrocità commesse durante la guerra? Quanto erano fondate le ricostruzioni che parlavano di uno scambio epistolare tra lui e Roosevelt per prevenire l'escalation della guerra, di reti segrete per supportare la fuga dei perseguitati dal regime, di battesimi improvvisati volti a salvare migliaia di ebrei dalla deportazione? Da allora le valutazioni su Pio XII non si sono più ricomposte, e ciclicamente le discussioni sulla sua controversa figura tornano a infiammarsi. Così, deciso a spiegare le azioni del suo predecessore, papa Francesco ha da poco desecretato i documenti a riguardo. Johan Ickx lavora da più di due decenni negli archivi della Santa Sede, e oggi dirige l'Archivio Storico della Sezione per i rapporti con gli Stati della Segreteria di Stato: chi meglio di lui, dunque, può raccontarci cosa dicono quelle carte, e fare finalmente chiarezza? Affidandosi alle sole testimonianze documentali autentiche, l'autore di questo libro ricostruisce per noi le vicende che videro protagonisti Pacelli e i suoi più stretti collaboratori, il celebre Bureau, dipingendo una serie di ritratti tanto vividi quanto accurati. E provando a fare luce su uno dei grandi misteri irrisolti della Seconda guerra mondiale.
Download or read book Modern Age written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gli atti del convegno Memoria collettiva e memoria privata written by Stefania Lucamante and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rule Britannia written by Emilio Biagini and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pio XII written by Andrea Tornielli and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opposes recent critical statements concerning the alleged silence of Pope Pius XII in the face of Nazi crimes against the Jews which have appeared in the Italian and international press since the publication of John Cornwell's "Hitler's Pope" (1999). Draws a profile of Pius XII, relating his thoughts and actions to their historical context. Asserts that the Pope helped the Jews, but avoided making this explicit in his public speeches. He preferred to keep the Holy See neutral and to keep the doors of churches and convents open to the Jews.
Download or read book A Moral Reckoning written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his first book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen dramatically revised our understanding of the role ordinary Germans played in the Holocaust. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the Catholic Church and its complicity in the destruction of European Jewry. What emerges is a work that goes far beyond the familiar inquiries—most of which focus solely on Pope Pius XII—to address an entire history of hatred and persecution that culminated, in some cases, in an active participation in mass-murder. More than a chronicle, A Moral Reckoning is also an assessment of culpability and a bold attempt at defining what actions the Church must take to repair the harm it did to Jews—and to repair itself. Impressive in its scholarship, rigorous in its ethical focus, the result is a book of lasting importance.
Download or read book New Oxford Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
