Posted on 01/17/2002 10:36:20 PM PST by FreeSpeechConservative
LIBRARY DOCUMENTS ON PIUS XII |
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Did Pius XII Remain Silent? Fr William Saunders Difficult Relations Between Church and Nazism - ZENIT Eichmanns Diary Reveals Churchs Assistance to Jews - ZENIT Historical Truth of Pius XIIs Work - ZENIT Jewish Recognition of Pope Pius XIIs Support - ZENIT Jewish-Catholic Commission to Study World War II - ZENIT New Studies Document Pius XIIs Opposition to Nazism ZENIT Pius XII and the Holocaust - The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Pius XII and the Jews - National Association of Catholic Families Pius XII Rehabilitated by Jewish Historian ZENIT Pius XII: the Martyrdom of Silence - Dr Emilia Paola Pacelli Pius XIIs 1941 Letter Protested Treatment of Jews - ZENIT Pius XIIs Cause of Beatification Progresses ZENIT Saviour of the Jews Michael OCarroll C.S.Sp. The Myth in the Light of the Archives Peirre Blet, S.J. World Press Unmasks Fallacies in Book Defaming Pius XII ZENIT Most of Rome's Jews Were Saved From Hitler's Final Solution - LOR The Good Samaritan: Jewish Praise For Pope Pius XII - Dimitri Cavalli Rabbi defends Pius XII against criticisms - Rabbi David G. Dalin Review of Pierre Blet's Book - Konrad Repgen Pius XII Saved More Jews Than Schindler - LOR |
Pius XII and the Holocaust - A Reader
A Catholic League Publication
Reprinted with permission from Fishnet/OSC
Copyright © 1996 Catholic Information Network (CIN)
September 1, 1996
Mr. Goldhagen, a former Harvard professor and author of a controversial 1996 book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners." "Anti-Semitism has been integral to the Catholic Church.
Thanks for the excellent reference materials.
I cannot help but be a bit uncomfortable with this whole debate, particularly when considering the purely religious aspect of the argument. This will sound more controversial than it should, if people really understood the nature of religion and the Catholic Church, but, in a sense, purely on religious terms what is sometimes inaccurately termed "anti-semitism" is indeed "integral to the Catholic Church," as Goldhagen argues. He is perhaps unintentionally more right than many here give him credit for. There is a fundamental incompatability between everything the Catholic Church has been for two thousand years and the Jewish religion, as there is between the Roman Church and the protestant sects. The Roman Catholic Church is anti-Protestant as well, while recognizing that the individual following these false religions is indeed one of God's creatures and thus as such entitled to the same love and respect as co-religionists.
But what I think is happening here is that two completely different arguments have been merged into one, by those with different agendas to push, with the result being a dangerous muddle of both of them. "Conservative" Catholics fully embrace the nearly heretical ecumenism of JPII's Church, shockingly turning their back on the history and traditions of their own faith and agreeing to the modernist fabrication that false religions are just "another way" to salvation. These people are violently angry with Goldhagen's argument because they don't think it is fair for him to be so mean when they have been bending over backward apologizing to and being ecumenical with the Jews. Radical and I suspect non-religious Jews also have an agenda, which is to undermine both religions and, perhaps more importantly, replace the Jewish religion with a new materialistic "religion" of Jewish victimology. This threatens the Jewish faith.
From a traditional Roman Catholic perspective, as stated above, Goldhagen's arguments have an unintentionally valid ring to them. The Church is indeed incompatible on religious terms with the Jewish faith, though by no means are the people of one faith permitted to act upon the people of the other in a violent manner. Indeed, a traditional Catholic like myself can find many appealing things in the Jewish faith and in Jewish culture while at the same time maintaining the necessary spiritual distance.
Only when the Roman Church's necessary anti-Jewishness can be seperated from the idea anti-Semitism, which the Church rightly views as unacceptable, can this debate really begin. Radical anti-religious Jews and their conservative Catholic enablers are not helping matters. I am not holding my breath.
LOL.
LIBERAL Jews....The Forward is Liberal.
Goldenhagen is brilliant, and he exposed so much evil and hypocrisy. Uncomfortable realities.
LIBERAL Jews....The Forward is Liberal.
Then why do my conservative Jewish friends write for it? I have never viewed the Forward as a liberal publication. It is solid and intellectual and daring, even when I do not agree with what they write. Shame on you for mischaracterizing it this way.
Goldhagen Wins German Prize for Holocaust Book - By Debra Bradley Ruder - Gazette Staff
Daniel J. Goldhagen, associate professor of government and social studies, has been honored by a prestigious German journal for his recent and provocative book about the Holocaust.
The Journal for German and International Politics selected Goldhagen for the 1997 Democracy Prize because his book, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, has helped sharpen public understanding about the past during a period of radical change in Germany.
"Because of the penetrating quality and the moral power of his presentation, Daniel Goldhagen has greatly stirred the consciousness of the German public," the Journal said on Tuesday. "This is especially important in the present period of transition that is shaping the transformation of the Bonn Republic to the Berlin Republic."
Goldhagen's book, which is being published in 12 languages and has become a best-seller in the United States, Germany, and seven other countries, has drawn enormous praise, criticism, and media attention. It argues that the perpetrators of the Holocaust were ordinary Germans who were driven by virulent anti-Semitism to degrade, torture, and kill Jews. The volume, published in the U.S. last March, is based on Goldhagen's prize-winning Harvard doctoral dissertation.
Goldhagen will accept the Democracy Prize on March 10 in Bonn, where the "laudatio" speech will be given by Jürgen Habermas, the world-renowned German philosopher and social critic. The roughly $6,400 prize is given occasionally and was last bestowed in 1990, on the democratic movement of the former East Germany.
In making its choice, the Journal -- a mainstream political and intellectual monthly -- said the ferocious debate sparked by Hitler's Willing Executioners provides a "striking example" that the past cannot be forgotten. The book, it noted, has underscored that there is no historical German "normalcy" to which Germany can return, and that "the founding principles of the Federal Republic of Germany" must continue to govern unified Germany.
It also praised Goldhagen for helping provide answers to the German descendants of the Holocaust, answers "which, as a rule, parents or grandparents had denied them. And the answers of German historiography have until now not been able to fill the gap," it said. Goldhagen, who has been on leave from Harvard this term, said he is "delighted, thrilled, and, even more, honored and deeply moved" to receive the prize.
"When I wrote my book, I believed that it was only about how to understand and think about the past," he reflected. "More and more, I have come to realize that the book is also about the present and the future."
Like I always say, there are some 'Conservatives' here who are Liberals/Marxists in sheep's clothing.
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