A Moral Reckoning. The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaus t and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair. 9780316724463 – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Goedkoop

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, aiming to transform a narrow discussion fixated on Pope Pius XII into the long-overdue investigation of the Church throughout Europe. He argues that the Church’s and the Pope’s complicity in the persecution of the Jews was much deeper than has been understood and that the Church’s leaders were fully aware of the persecutions. They did not speak out and urge resis…