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Was
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"Courage is contagious, so clutch
this book close to your heart. Righting great wrongs
requires great courage, and that is what The Myth of
Hitler's Pope delivers...This restoration of a good man's
good name is a mitzvah - a Jewish good deed."
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin, President Toward Tradition
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"A courageous, impassioned, and
desperately needed book that restores essential balance to
the ongoing discussion of one of the most reviled figures in
recent religious history."
- Michael Medved,
nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and bestselling
author
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"This is a stunning book. I wish I had
known more of this material years ago."
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Michael
Novak, George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public
Policy and winner of the Templeton Prize, 1994
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Hardcover,
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...Rabbi
David G. Dalin says, "NO!" |
By
the time of Pope Pius XII death on October 9, 1958, Jewish leaders
and academics around the
world had expressed an outpouring of praise and gratitude for the work he did to
save lives during the Holocaust. In 1940 Albert Einstein was quoted in Time
Magazine saying, "...Only the Catholic Church stood squarely across
the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any
special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection
and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and
persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced
thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise
unreservedly." Golda Meir, who served as a representative to the United Nations and
also as Prime
Minister of Israel, stated:
"During the ten years of Nazi terror the Pope raised his voice to condemn the
persecutors and to commiserate with their victims." The Chief
Rabbi of Rome, Elio
Toaff, attested that the Pope treated Italian Jews with "
great
kindness, filled with compassion and magnanimity... during the terrible years of persecution and
terror." Despite
all of this praise, there are still people who accuse Pope Pius XII
of being "silent" regarding the Nazi's reign of terror, of being
anti-Semitic himself, or of actually being in league with Hitler - calling
him "Hitler's Pope".
In this
new and thoroughly documented book, The
Myth of Hitler's Pope, Rabbi David G. Dalin explodes
the myth of "Hitler’s Pope" and condemns the myth-makers for not only
rewriting history, but for denying the testimony of Holocaust survivors,
hijacking the Holocaust for unseemly political ends, and ignoring the real
threat to the Jewish people.
As
Pope Pius XII worked to save Jews from the Nazis, the grand mufti
(the highest official of religious law for Sunni Muslims) of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husseini.
became Hitler’s staunch ally and a promoter of the Holocaust, with a
legacy that feeds radical Islam today. Full of shocking and irrefutable detail, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope is
sure to generate controversy, and more important, to set the record
straight.
If you want the truth about Pope Pius XII, about the Catholic
Church, the Jews, and the Holocaust, and about how the myth of Hitler’s
pope plays into the culture wars of our own time - and how the fact of
Hitler’s mufti is a vital source of radical Islam today - you must
begin here.
In The Myth of Hitler’s Pope, you’ll learn:
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The true history of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
- how the
Catholic Church did more than any other religious body to save Jewish
lives
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The real history of the Church and the Nazis
- including the Nazi
plan to kidnap the pope
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The real agenda of the myth-makers: hijacking the Holocaust to
attack the very idea of the papacy - especially the papacy of the
late Pope John Paul II - as well as Christianity and traditional
religion as a whole
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Hitler’s cleric
- Hajj Amin al-Husseini - who advised and
assisted the Nazis in carrying out Hitler’s Final Solution
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How Pope Pius XII rescued Jews
- and deserves to be called a
“righteous gentile” - while the grand mufti of Jerusalem called
for their extermination
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Table
of Contents
Chapter
One: The Myth of Hitler's Pope and Why It Matters
Chapter Two: Popes in
Defense of the Jews
Chapter Three: The
Future Pope
Chapter Four: A
Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Chapter Five: The
Liberal Media and the Culture Wars
Chapter Six: Hitler's
Mufti: Muslim Anti-Semitism and the Continuing Islamic War against
the Jews
Chapter Seven: John Paul
II and Papal Condemnation of Anti-Semitism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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About
the Author
David G. Dalin is an ordained rabbi and professor of History and Political Science at Ave Maria university in Naples, Florida. Rabbi Dalin is the author or co-author of several books and his articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications. He received his B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, and his Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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Ronald
J. Rychlak writes in his preface, "This project began several
years ago when a friend of mine accused Pope Pius XII of having
been a Nazi. I had never heard of the controversy surrounding
Pius...I needed to know more."
The
conflicting opinions about Pius XII's wartime performance indicate not
only the complexities of the man, the former Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, but
also the difficulty in understanding the Hitler era and the inherent
conflict between political posturing and pastoral actions.
With exacting scholarship, Professor Rychlak gives a full exploration
of the background facts, including discussions of history, religion,
politics, diplomacy, and military tactics. Then come ten fundamental
questions concerning Pope Pius XII and the Nazis which are answered with
legal analysis and authoritative citations. The epilogue provides a
critical examination of John Cornwell's recent book on the same topic,
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII.
Ronald J. Rychlak is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor
of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law where he has taught
courses and seminars in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Gaming Law, and
Environmental Law since 1987. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt
University and his B.A. from Wabash College. |
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Hitler
The War and
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At great personal risk, Eugenio
Pacelli, Pius XII, saved some 800,000 Jews from extermination by
the Nazis. Jewish refugees were given asylum in the Vatican,
swelling the number of Swiss Guards. No Allied leader can match
his glorious record.
Why then has such a man been
vilified and all but accused of being responsible for the
Holocaust?
The Defamation of Pius XII is
not a defense of Pius in the normal sense, since Pius's
actions need no defense. They need to be brought to light.
This book restores Pius XII to
the rank of hero, demolishes the ludicrous charges against him,
and identifies the true target of this infamous calumny: the
Church, the papacy, and the Christian moral teaching which
confronts and condemns the Culture of Death.
Ralph Mclnerny is
author to nearly 100 books in philosophy and fiction. In
fiction, he has written dozens of mysteries and novels, most
famously the Fr. Dowling Mystery Series. Mclnerny is the Michael
P Grace Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame
and director of the Jacques Maritain Institute there.
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The
Defamation of
Pius XII
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A
film about the hidden network by the
clergy of Assisi that saved persecuted Jews during WWII.
During World War II, racist laws in Italy forced thousands of Jews to flee
their cities in search of safe haven. A few
hundred of these refugees, facing dangerous obstacles along the way, reached Assisi, the city of St. Francis.
Even with the city under German occupation, all of those who came
to Assisi were saved.
Under
secret orders by Pope Pius XII to do all that was humanly possible to save
the Jews, the Bishop of Assisi began the operation
that would open up monasteries and convents to hide the persecuted.
Priests, nuns, the town's mayor, and many of Assisi¹s citizens
all worked together in this hidden network. This story is told
with
interviews of some of those directly involved, historical footage of the
era, and Pope John Paul II's message from Assisi to "walk the paths
of peace".
VHS - 40 minutes
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Assisi
in Silence
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This outstanding film, tells the thrilling true story of an Irish priest,
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, who works in the Vatican during World
War II. He organizes an underground network in Rome to hide the Jews and others from the Nazis
and helps them escape to freedom.
Gregory Peck stars as Msgr. O'Flaherty, who uses disguises to do his dangerous work
slipping in and out of Vatican City. He must hide his plans from the ruthless Nazi commander
Colonel Kappler (Christopher Plummer) who wants to murder the priest.
A powerful film guaranteed to inspire!
based on the book by J. Gallagher entitled "Scarlet Pimpernel
of the Vatican". Filmed on location in Rome.
VHS - 2 hours 36 minutes.
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The
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