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The Holocaust and the Catholic Church

Pius XII and the Jews by David G. Dalin

An invicibly thorough article from a Jewish perspective (February 26, 2001 Weekly Standard)

The Frances and Jacob Hiatt Collection of Holocaust Materials

at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Pius Defenders by Thomas J. Craughwell

review and summary of three books that show the extraordinary efforts of Pius XII to save Jewish victims of the Nazis.

A more extensive defense of Pius XII featured in the current issue of Sursum Corda and will be reprinted here as soon as the publisher allows.

Catholic Heroes of the Holocaust by Elizabeth Altham

The private actions of individual Catholics as well as those of the Holy See saved many Jews from their persecutors.

The New York Times

The Times itself testifies against its current campaign against the memory of Pius XII.

Pius XII and the Holocaust

a document at the Catholic League

Pius XII and the Jewish Holocaust memo by Sim Johnston

Mit Brennender Sorge ("With burning sorrow")

Encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI in 1937 whose final wording was the responsibility of the cardinal who became Pius XII. The encyclical, the first ever written in German, was smuggled into Germany and read in all German churches on Palm Sunday; the Nazi Foreign Office characterized it as "a call to battle…as it calls upon Catholic citizens to rebel against the authority of the Reich." (see the Altham article for attribution)

Revisionist History, the Holocaust, and the Vatican By Kenneth L. Woodward

Newsweek, March 30, 1998

Pius XII : Greatness Dishonoured by Michael O'Carroll, C.S.Sp.

Published by Laetare Press, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

Sins of the Catholic Church Links from Jeff Buchholz

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