The papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust /

Coppa, Frank J.

The papacy, the Jews, and the Holocaust / Frank J. Coppa. - Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006. - xx, 353 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-346) and index.

Papal Anti-Judaism in theory and practice over the millenia -- Anti-Judaism in the church : from the French Revolution to the mid-nineteenth century -- Pio Nono and the Jews : from reform to reaction, 1846-1878 -- Anti-Judaism in an age of anti-Semitism, 1878-1922 -- Pius XI and the Jews in an age of dictators, 1922-1939 -- The "silence" of Pius XII and his crusade against communism -- John XXIII, Paul VI, and Vatican II : aggiornamento and the new relationship between Catholics and Jews -- Apology and reconciliation : John Paul II confronts the church's anti-Judaic past and the Holocaust.

0813214491 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780813214498

2005018125


Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.


Christianity and antisemitism--History.
Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church.
Papacy--History.

BM535 / .C636 2006

262.13 / C793p