The Church and the Holocaust

When the Pope Tried to Kill Hitler

By |2017-03-20T17:47:27-04:00November 16th, 2015|Categories: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, Special Reports, The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler by Mark Riebling Basic Books, New York, 2015 375 pages, $29.99. Ronald J. Rychlak Pope Pius XII and the Nazis: far too many writers have wandered into this fascinating subject without bringing anything new to the table. Many of the late pope’s critics have simply repeated information [...]

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Tribute to Pope Pius XII

By |2017-03-20T17:54:18-04:00November 22nd, 2008|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

Sister Margherita Marchione November 2008 The career of Eugenio Pacelli ended when people were awakened in Rome soon after dawn, Thursday the 9th of October 1958. Pius XII died at 3:51 a.m., in a plain white iron bed, overhung with a white canopy, in his room on the second floor of the Papal villa in Castelgandolfo, [...]

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Remembering a Catholic Heroine

By |2019-09-27T16:57:49-04:00November 22nd, 2008|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

Dr. Richard C. Lukas November 2008 Most people had never heard of the tiny, blue-eyed lady until she passed away at ninety-eight years of age in Warsaw on May 12, 2008. Those who were aware of her inspiring story knew that she was a moral giant. Irena Sendler had been raised a Roman Catholic by a [...]

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Pius XII, John XII, and the Newly-Opened Archives

By |2019-09-27T17:01:16-04:00March 22nd, 2007|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

Ronald J. Rychlak (Catalyst, 3/2007) Eugenio Pacelli became Pope Pius XII in 1939, after having spent nine years as Cardinal Secretary of State. Prior to that, he had been the Vatican's representative in Germany. During his lifetime, Pius XII's opposition to Hitler was well known. Nazis condemned him, Jews thanked him, and rescuers identified him as [...]

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Pius XII and Yad Vashem

By |2019-09-27T17:03:10-04:00October 22nd, 2006|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

by Sister Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. (Catalyst 10/2006) Sister Margherita Marchione is the author of several books on Pope Pius XII, the latest being Crusade of Charity: Pius XII And POW's 1939-1945. Below the portrait of Pope Pius XII in the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem, there is a statement which is contrary to the truth and is [...]

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Three Jews and a Pope

By |2017-03-20T17:55:15-04:00June 22nd, 2006|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

by Sister Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. (Catalyst, 6/2006) Recently, a Jewish group invited me to speak. When I mentioned that my topic would be Pope  Pius XII, I was informed that it would not suit their needs: “My chairman thought it would open up the wounds of a few holocaust survivors in our group who lost mothers, fathers, [...]

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Revisiting the Pius War

By |2017-03-20T17:55:21-04:00April 22nd, 2006|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

by Eugene J. Fisher (Catalyst 4/2006) Patrick J. Gallo, editor, Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Revisionists: Essays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2006. 218 pages. PB. NP. Sister Margherita Marchione, Crusade of Charity: Pius XII and POW's(1939-1945). New York: Paulist Press, 2006. 284 pages. Ronald J. Rychlak, Righteous Gentiles: How Pius XII and the Catholic Church saved Half [...]

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The Papacy and the Jews: Rabbi Dalin Sets the Record Straight

By |2017-03-20T17:55:33-04:00September 22nd, 2005|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

by William Doino, Jr. (Catalyst 9/2005) Every day, the secular media bombards us with the idea that the Catholic Church is a backward, repressive institution, unfair to its own members and prejudiced against those outside its communion. Is it any wonder that so many Jews, and other non-Catholics—not to mention "anti-Catholic Catholics" ignorant of their own [...]

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Why We Published The Pius War

By |2017-03-20T17:55:40-04:00April 22nd, 2005|Categories: The Church and the Holocaust, White Papers and Essays|

by William Doino, Jr. (Catalyst 4/2005) Eight years ago this month, the New Yorker magazine published a spectacularly long article entitled "The Silence." Written by the resigned priest James Carroll (now a columnist at the Boston Globe), it argued that the doctrine of papal infallibility and the Church's insistence "upon the primacy of Jesus as a means to salvation" [...]

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