The Buzz About the
Book  See what people are saying about Hitler, the War, and the Pope

An Interview with
Rabbi Dalin  Historian Rabbi David Dalin of New York comes down on the side of Pius XII

Reviews  A sampling of reviews by law journals and other sources

60 Minutes on Pius XII
Prof. Rychlak handily dismantles CBS TV's 60 Minutes' inequit-able presentation

The Holy See vs. The Third Reich  An article by Prof. Rychlak appearing in the Oct. 1998 issue of the New Oxford Review

An Interview With Prof. Ron Rychlak
An April, 2001, inter-view with ZENIT, the International News Agency

Hitler's Plan to Arrest Pius XII and Destroy the Vatican  A replay of "Is Paris burning?"

Pius XII Rehabilitated by Jewish Historian  Prof. Richard Breitman of American University in Washington weighs in on the issue

 

INTERNET RESOURCES
Websites offering information on
Pope Pius XII and Nazi oppression

• Goldhagen v. Pius XII. Ron Rychlak, in an article appearing in First Things (June/July 2002), deflates Daniel Goldhagen's essay in the New Republic (Jan. 2002) on Pius XII and the Holocaust.

• Pius12.com Archives.  Declassified files from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) indicate that the Catholic Church was regarded as "the deciding crystallizing nucleus" of resistance to Nazism, and that Pius XII's closest advisers, and the Pope himself, were involved in conspiracies to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

• University of Mississippi Spring 2000 Law Center News Magazine on the Web  Backgrounder on how Hitler, the War, and the Pope came to be written.

• 860000 lives saved – the truth about Pius XII and the Jews – a positive treatment of Pius XII's opposition to Hitler.  The article is hosted by the Jewish Virtual Library, website of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), established in 1993 as a nonprofit 501(c)(3), nonpartisan organization to strengthen the relationship between the United States and Israel.

• The Catholic League.for Religious and Civil Rights pro-vides the following:
  ► Pius XII FAQs Frequently Asked Questions About
     Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust.
  ► Pius XII and the Jews: The War Years, as reported by
     the New York Times by Stephen M. DiGiovanni.
  ► Pius XII and the Holocaust A Reader  Complete on-
      line book, a Catholic League publication.
  ► The Real Story of Pius XII and the Jews by James
      Bogle, barrister of the Middle Temple and former
      cavalry officer.  The Salisbury Review, Spring 1996.
  ► The Truth About Pope Pius XII, by Sister Margherita
      Marchione. Ph.D.

• Pope Fiction.  Featuring an audio talk on Pope Pius XII and the Jews.

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