Title: A Moral Reckoning
First published: 2002
Description: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to lay out the full extent of the Catholic Church's involvement in the Holocaust, transforming a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He shows that the Church's and the Pope's complicity in the persecution of the Jews was much deeper than has been understood. The Church's leaders were fully aware of the persecutions. They did not speak out and urge resistance. Instead, they supported many aspects of the persecution. Some clergy even took part in the mass murder. But Goldhagen goes further. He develops a new, precise way for assessing the Church and its clergy's culpability, which was more extensive and varied than has been supposed. He then shows that the Church has, even according to its own doctrine, an unacknowledged duty of repair. He explores it, analyzes the Church's tactics of evasion, and delineates all that the Church must do to repair the harm it inflicted on Jews, and to heal itself. Brilliantly researched and reasoned, A Moral Reckoning is a path-breaking book of profound, and potentially explosive, importance. - Publisher.
Subjects: Aspect religieux, Aspectos religiosos, Catholic Church, Christianisme, Christianisme et antisémitisme, Christianity, Christianity and antisemitism, Cristianismo y antisemitismo, Et les juifs, Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Histoire, Historia, History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocauste, 1939-1945, Holocausto judío (1939-1945), Iglesia Católica, Judaism, Judaísmo, Judaïsme, Nacionalsocialismo y religión, National socialism and religion, Relaciones, Relaciones con los judíos, Relations, Relations with Jews, Religious aspects of World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Église catholique, Holocaust, Rooms-Katholieke Kerk, Tweede Wereldoorlog, Genocide, Antisemitismus, Judenverfolgung, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Judenvernichtung, Eglise catholique, Christentum, Interfaith relations, Guerre mondiale (1939-1945), Shoah, Katholische Kirche, Pius xii, pope, 1876-1958, Catholic church, relations, judaism, Judaism, relations, catholic church, World war, 1939-1945, religious aspects, Judaism, relations, christianity, Jews, Religious aspects, Industries
People: Pie XII pape (1876-1958), Pius XII Pope (1876-1958), Pío XII Papa (1876-1958)
Time periods: 20e siècle, 20th century, Siglo XX