Were the Popes Against the Jews?: Tracking the Myths, by Justus George Lawler
By Justus George Lawler
the reply needs to be "great numbers of individuals" considering these accusations seemed in David I. Kertzer's The Popes opposed to the Jews (2001), a e-book which have been lauded in significant journals and newspapers within the U.S. and the U.K., and which by way of 2006 have been translated into 9 international languages, whereas Kertzer himself in line with his web site, had develop into "America's top-rated professional at the glossy historical past of the Vatican's family with the Jews." it's therefore indisputable that very many of us in very many nations have heard of the appalling misdeeds and misstatements pointed out above -- even if, actually, now not considered one of them used to be ever perpetrated by way of any pope.
yet Were the Popes opposed to the Jews? is not just concerning the disclosure of those surprising slanders, despite the fact that attention-grabbing and significant such an expos� is. within the broader point of view, it's concerning the strength of ideology to subvert historic judgments, even if the latter problem the origins of anti-Semitism and the papacy, the distortion of records to indict Pius XII, or the fabrication of Pius XI as "codependent collaborator" with Mussolini (the introduced topic of Kertzer's subsequent book). Justus George Lawler's war of words with ideologues will gratify all who're looking now not overcome rivals, yet peace and justice for all.
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