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: 9780739109069
• ISBN10: 0739109065
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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 the 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(82)
Joseph Bottum
1 Pius XII and the Jews	13	(12)
David G. Dalin
2 Dismantling the Cross	25	(8)
Robert Louis Wilken
3 A Dangerous Thing to Do	33	(8)
Ronald J. Rychlak
4 A New Syllabus of Errors	41	(6)
Justus George Lawler
5 Desperately Seeking Culprits	47	(6)
Russell Hittinger
6 The Land of What If	53	(6)
Kevin M. Doyle
7 Something Deeply Shameful	59	(8)
John Jay Hughes
8 How Not to Deal with History	67	(10)
John S. Conway
9 To Avoid Worse Evils	77	(6)
Rainer Decker
10 Bigotry's New Low	83	(6)
Michael Novak
11 Pius XII and the Nazis	89	(8)
Joseph Bottum
An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Pius XII, the Second World War, and the Holocaust	97	(184)
William Doino Jr.
Introduction	97	(1)
Part 1: Primary Sources	98	(11)
Part 2: The Papacy Before Pius XII	109	(14)
Part 3: The Papacy of Pius XII	123	(35)
Part 4: Major Attackers	158	(26)
Part 5: Major Defenders	184	(27)
Part 6: The Defense of Pius XII	211	(32)
Part 7: Pius XII and the National Churches	243	(38)
About the Contributors	281