Was Pope Pius XII a Nazi Sympathizer?
For almost 50 years, a controversy has raged about Pope Pius XII.
Was the Pope who had shepherded the Church through World War II a
Nazi sympathizer? Was he, as some have dared call him, Hitler's
pope? Did he do nothing to help the Jewish people in the grips of
the Holocaust?
In a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented analysis
of the historical record, Ronald Rychlak has gotten past the
anger and emotion and uncovered the truth about Pius XII. Not
only does he refute the accusations against the Pope, but for the
first time documents how the slanders against him had their roots
in a Soviet Communist campaign to discredit him and by extension,
the Church.
Let those who doubt but read Rychlak, follow his exquisitely
organized courtroom-like arguments. What Professor Rychlak brings
to the forum are facts, not rhetoric, dates, not conjecture,
evidence, not slander.... The world owes Ronald Rychlak a debt
for bringing the truth to light. ---Rabbi Eric A. Silver
"In his well-crafted pages ... the portrait that emerges is one
of an extraordinary pastor facing extremely vexing circumstances,
of a holy man vying against an evil man, of a human being trying
to save the lives of other human beings, of a light shining in
the darkness."
--John Cardinal O Connor (1920-2000) Archbishop of New York (from
the Foreword to the first edition)
"I have read many books on Pius XII, and this is by far the most
dispassionate in laying out the context, relevant facts,
accusations, and evidence pro and con. The book is highly
engaging because it is filled with so many little-known facts.
The research has been prodigious. Yet the presentation is as
down-to-earth as it would have to be in a courtroom.... This is a
wonderfully realistic book." ---Michael Novak
George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and
Public Policy,
American Enterprise Institute
"Despite his many brilliant accomplishments, perhaps no
modern-day leader of the Catholic Church has triggered more
controversies than Pope Pius XII. Some historians have argued
that, in light of the Church s concerns about Communism, he was
pro-Nazi during the 1930s. He has been accused of signing the
Reichskonkordat as a signal to Adolf Hitler of Rome's favor; of
dissuading Pope Pius XI from condemning Kristallnacht; and of
remaining silent in face of proof that the Holocaust was taking
place.
In this valuable book, Professor Ronald Rychlak sets the record
straight. He paints a vivid picture of the social, political, and
religious background against which the papacy of Pius XII took
place. In so doing, Rychlak shows him to have been a man of
singular wisdom and courage.
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was a brilliant student
as a young man, fluent in several languages, with doctorates in
theology and canon and civil law. He was elected to the papacy
just six months before Germany's invasion of Poland sparked the
Second World War in Europe.
"Rychlak has buried the myth under an avalanche of facts and
demonstrated that Pacelli's reputation deserves to be what it was
during the war when the New York Times more than once praised him
as a lonely voice crying out of the silence of a continent.
Rychlak has done more than anyone else to set the record
straight." --Professor Robert George McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence Princeton University
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