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In 1964, Pope Paul VI ordered the Vatican diplomatic archives covering the period of World War II opened, and they were eventually published in 12 volumes. Blet taught history at the Pontificia Academia Ecclesiastica for 17 years, and here constructs from those records an account of what is widely p
- Sales Rank: #1307419 in Books
- Brand: Paulist Press
- Published on: 1999-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.31" h x 1.00" w x 6.32" l, 1.35 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
Review
A highly important work. -- Choice
Explains what Pope Pius XII did to help victims of Nazi oppression in Europe during World War II. -- St. Anthony Messenger
The book is a winner. -- New Oxford Review
This remarkable work is historiography at its best. -- Social Justice Review
This should silence criticism of the pope. -- Josephinum Journal of Theology
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
About the Author
Lawrence J. Johnson is the former executive secretary of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions and the former editor/director of The Pastoral Press. He has written several books on the liturgy and its music, including The Mystery of Faith: A Study of the Structural Elements of the Order of the Mass.
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24 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
Curial
By John Seybold
The style reminds me of a Vatican Document. The author is driven to show a positive side to Pius XII in the world war situation. Unlike "Hitler's Pope", this book does not go off on the assumption game and the "what if" game. It tries show Pius XII in a positive like, but what it showed was a typical curial pragmatist who hoped for the best and did what he could when it didn't endanger his goal. Could the Pope had done for the suffering of others in concentration camps, yes. Was he an ally of the National Socialist Regime, no. After reading both books, Hitler's Pope and this, I am left with the question, what did the Jews do for themselves? It seemed in both books it showed the rabbis and Zionist groups asking other to intervene for them. Where were the cry of these for the Jehovah Witnesses, the Gypsies,the homosexuals, the socialist politicians who suffered just as cruel death in the camps as the Jews? Nothing short of winning the war could have stopped the National Socialist from their goal of racial purity, not even the Pope in Rome.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Pius XII and Second World War: According to the Archives of the Vatican and not Media Nonsense
By James E. Egolf
Father Pierre Blet, S.J. wrote this book, PIUS XII and the SECOND WORLD WAR: ACCORDING to the ARCHIVES of the VATICAN which was published in 1997 and translated into English in 1999. This book was based on careful historical research of Vatican Documents and reflected 12 volumes that were carefully examined between 1965-1981. While more documents have been examined since 1981, the book is important in that massaive bona fide documents have undermined Catholic bashers and anti-Catholic hysterics who have not one shred of bona fide of actual sources for their false claims.
Father F. Stransky,a Paulist Catholic priest, began this book with a brief summary of the men involved in scholarship and the attempts to smear Pope Pius XII. He carefully explained that Pope Pius XII had to be very careful re diplomacy and used secret messages and encrypted notes to communicate with priests, bishops, nuns, sisters, etc. Pope Pius XII was an unallyed hero during the 1940s which the book clearly proved. Pope Pius XII probably did more to rescue refugees including Jews at great personal risk than anyone else. Yet, as the historian Christopher Browning wrote, "The Holocaust is a story of many victims and not too many heroes. I think we are naive if we think that one more hero could have stopped it" (p.XV).
The introduction classified the documents into five catagories (Pope Pius XII's public speeches,Pope Pius XII's correpsondence with ecclesiastical and civil authorities, Vatican notes and hand written communications for proposals to help rescue innocent victims,correspondence with Vatican nuncios, and representatives accredited by the Vatican). This was followed by a careful description of the historiography of examining the actual sources.
The next section of the book dealt with Pope Pius XII strenuous attempts to prevent the start of W.W. II. Many of Pope Pius XII's warnings came true, and he knew what was probably going to happen. Early in the war Pope Pius XII had terrible problems trying to save the Catholic Church in Poland which both the German and Soviet authorities were trying to destroy. Catholic representatives had to be careful to avoid arrest and execution and exposing those whom they were desparately trying to help.
As Father Blet noted, once W.W. II started Pope Pius XII worked tirelessly to keep the Italians out of the war but to no avail. Again, Father Blet noted Pope Pius XII's uncanny ability to predict what would happen if the Italians entered the war. Pope Pius XII knew that Catholics both in Italy and other areas of Europe would be persecuted due to their loyalty to Catholicism.
Father Blet's sections of the book dealing with the status of the Catholic Church in Germany was rich in detail and research. In 1937, Pope Pius XII's predessor Pope Pius XI, issued the document titled MIT BRTENNENDER SORGE (March 19, 1937)which condemned German policy toward "non-Aryans." Readers should note that Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, helped craft this document. This was followed by persecution of the Catholic Church which included the stoppage, or attempted stoppage of Papal commnications to German Catholics. Catholic publishers, schools, organizations, etc. were closed, and many arrests plus severe penalties followed. Once Pope Pius XII was elected in 1939, he knew what Catholics faced both in Germany and most of the rest of Europe.
These persecutions obviously occured in Poland. Catholic bishops and laity were often arrested by either German or Soviet authorities never to be heard from again. Pope Pius XII had continued disputes over the appointment of bishops. He absolutely refused to accept any German or Soviet nominee for Catholic Church positions as Pope Pius XII that such appointees could never be loyal to Catholicism or the Vatican. In fact, many Catholic priests and religious were arrested and sent to concentration camps as early as 1940.
The Catholic priests and religious in the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) had to seek refuge in the Vatican or neutral countries (neutrals were rare)to avoid arrest and execution. Pope Pius XII raised public protest in his Christmas Message of 1940, his Easter Message of 1941, plus his Pentacost Message also in 1941. Such messages were often followed by increased persecution against Catholics in German occupied Europe. This was obviously a time when they were displaced refugees and lost persons. Yet, Pope Pius XII arranged for Vatican officials to try to locate these people and inform family members of the refugees' status. If displaced men, women, and children were located, Pope Pius XII and his Vatican staff did all they could to send food, medicine, correspondence, etc. to these people. As an aside, a Protestant family from Kansas sent a large donation and sincere thanks for locating and helping their son.
Later sections of the book dealt with Pope Pius XII's and Catholics' heroic efforts to help refugees including Jewish people in Eastern Europe including Croatia, Romania, Slovakia,etc. Readers must realize that these areas were in complete chaos as German and Soviet armies ravaged these areas with war and subsepuent secret police brutality. Pope Pius XII threatened any Catholic priest or religious with exommunication if they aided and abetted in persecution of Jews or other "non-Aryans."
Pope Pius XII had his Cardinals and Bishops issue false baptismal certificates and attempted to get visas for refugees to relocate in other parts of the world out of harm's way. These efforts were exhaustive as verified by Angelo Roncalli-the future Pope John XXIII. There was not any effort that Pope Pius XII and his advisors plus Catholic laity did not try to alleviate the suffering and death among innocent victims including Jewish refugees.
The last sections of the book dealt with the testimonies of those who offered grateful thanks and praise to Pope Pius XII including Jewish dignataries such as Isreal Zolli who was the Chief Rabbi of Rome and later converted to Catholicism. Rabbi Herzog, the subsequent Chief Rabbi of Rome, also offered high praise. Many Eastern European rabbis also offered sincere gratitude and praise to Pope Pius XII. They knew what Pope Pius XII did to help them and other Jewish people. Readers may be interested in the fact that in 1955, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra offered a concert at the Vatican to honor Pope Pius XII.
Father Blet did a good job. Readers should follow this book by the book titled POPE PIUS XII AND WORLD WAR II-THE DOCUEMENTED TRUTH. This book was edited by Gary Krupp who is Jewish and has numerous documents and sources which vindicate Pope Pius XII. Gery Krupp and his editors have digitized approximately 65% of the documents re the Papacy of Pope Pius XII and hope to have 99% of these documents in the near future. There IS NOT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE that Pope Pius XII was sympathic to the Hitler regime-not one. Sister Marchione has written excellent well documented books re Pope Pius XII. Ronald Rychek has written two excellent books which refute the nonsensical smears against Pope Pius XII.
James E. Egolf
July 4, 2010
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
revisiting truth
By matt
After so much bashing of the Pope's reaction/response/responsibility for the holocaust, most of it simply a front for anti-Catholic Romaphobia, this book is a welcome find. The text is based upon the Vatican archives, by someone who has spent many years working with the originals, of the role of the Pope in the time of the War, collected and written in response to Rolph Hochhuth's 1963 antipapal claims that he ignored the plight of the Jews.
The evidence demonstrates that Pope Pius did a great deal to influence European governments behind the scenes, and also attempted to rescue large numbers of Jews in Europe, but that his efforts went largely ignored or simply drowned in a sea of diplomatic storms. Hardly an acquiescence and clearly not a co-conspirator.
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