The Pius War Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

by Bottum, Joseph; Dalin, David G.; Bottum, Joseph; Conway, John S.; Decker, Rainer; Jr, William Doino; Doyle, Kevin M.; Hittinger, Russell; Hughes, John Jay; Lawler, Justus George; Novak, Michael; Rychlak, Ronald J.; Wilken, Robert Louis

• ISBN13: 9780739145647
• ISBN10: 0739145649
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Joseph Bottum is Books Arts editor of The Weekly Standard and editor of First Things. David G. Dalin is professor of history and political science at Ave Maria University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Pius XII and the Jews	p. 13
Dismantling the Cross	p. 25
A Dangerous Thing to Do	p. 33
A New Syllabus of Errors	p. 41
Desperately Seeking Culprits	p. 47
The Land of What If	p. 53
Something Deeply Shameful	p. 59
How Not to Deal with History	p. 67
To Avoid Worse Evils	p. 77
Bigotry's New Low	p. 83
Pius XII and the Nazis	p. 89
An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Pius XII, the Second World War, and the Holocaust	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Primary Sources	p. 98
The Papacy Before Pius XII	p. 109
The Papacy of Pius XII	p. 123
Major Attackers	p. 158
Major Defenders	p. 184
The Defense of Pius XII	p. 211
Pius XII and the National Churches	p. 243
About the Contributors	p. 281
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