The ambassador & the pope: Pius XII, Jacques Maritain & the Jews.

From: Commonweal | Date: October 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In the intense debates of recent years surrounding Pope Pius XII, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust, fresh perspectives can advance our understanding. A good example comes from a seldom-discussed letter written in the summer of 1946 by Jacques Maritain, the most prominent Catholic philosopher of his day, to his longtime friend and associate Giovanni Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, then sostituto in the office of the Vatican's Secretariat of State--effectively the pope's chief of staff. In the letter, Maritain formulated a plea to Pius XII for a solemn declaration denouncing the ...

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