National Socialism And The Roman Catholic Church: being an Account of the Conflict between the National Socialist Government of Germany and the Roman Catholic Church, 1933–1939

1939 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Socialist Government

The Reports of the Sicherheitsdienst on the Church and Religious Affairs in Germany, 1939–1944

1971 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald D. Wall
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
The Past ◽  
Confessing Church ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Church ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The volume of literature on the Kirchenkampf is expanding at an accelerating rate. Several bibliographical articles have already appeared, the most recent of which is by the Canadian scholar, John S. Conway. Of the 63 titles of books, articles, and collections discussed by Conway, 47 were published in the 1960s. Nearly all studies of the Kirchenkampf either defend or criticize the church in varying degrees. Most of the older accounts, as Conway points out in the introduction to his own comprehensive study, were written by clergymen and historians who actually participated in the Kirchenkampf. These scholars selected those facts which demonstrated that the church steadfastly, if not always effectually, opposed National Socialist tyranny in word and deed. The larger volume of Protestant works emphasized the activity of the Confessing Church, while the unaccountably smaller number of Roman Catholic accounts focused upon particular bishops and priests who protested courageously and suffered imprisonment or martyrdom. During the past ten years, however, a small group of mostly younger historians have published works sharply critical of the Roman Catholic Church in particular. These historians, the most prominent of whom are Gordon Zahn, Hans Müller, and Guenter Lewy, assert that the Roman Catholic Church failed to exert the kind of moral and political leadership which might have mitigated the horrors of National Socialism.

National-Socialism and the Roman Catholic Church

1939 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
W. E. Reid ◽  
Nathaniel Micklem
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church

Resistance, Negotiation and Development: The Roman Catholic Church in Vietnam, 1954–2010

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-323
Author(s):  
Thao Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The North ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Socialist Government ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Church

This article discusses the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church in Vietnam to negotiate with the socialist government from 1954 to 2010. It analyses the different dynamics and approaches employed by the Church in the north and south of Vietnam to respond to political pressure. Viewed within a larger context, Rome during these decades played a significant role in shaping the political views of the Vietnamese hierarchy as well as inspiring them to make important choices in the midst of tension and conflict. The article argues that though caught in a complex social and political situation, the Church in Vietnam has continued to thrive and managed gradually to exert its place in Vietnamese society.

In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-486
Author(s):  
David I. Kertzer ◽  
Gunnar Mokosch
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe role played by Christianity and Christian churches in the demonization of the Jews by the German National Socialist and Italian Fascist regimes remains a subject of intense controversy. The historiography at the base of this debate has been largely rooted in research on either Germany or Italy, yet comparative empirical study is particularly well-suited to allow broader generalizations. Such work is especially valuable given the very different relationships the two regimes maintained with the churches. This article identifies similarities and differences in the Nazi and Italian Fascist uses of Christianity in their efforts to turn their populations against the Jews through examination of two of their most influential popular anti-Semitic propaganda vehicles: La difesa della razza in Italy and Der Stürmer in Germany. Both mixed pseudoscientific racial theories with arguments based on Christian religious authority, and both presented themselves as defenders of Christianity against the Jewish threat. Yet while the Italian publication, reflecting the Fascist regime's close relationship with the Roman Catholic Church, took care to present itself as in harmony with the Church, the German publication adopted a much more critical attitude toward contemporary German churches and churchmen, casting them as having strayed from the true teachings of Jesus.

scholarly journals “MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (MOC)” IN FORMER YUGOSLAV STATE

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-215
Author(s):  
Marko Nikolic ◽  
Duško Dimitrijević
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Roman Catholic Church ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
National Socialist

After World War II, multi-religious and multi-national socialist Yugoslavia faced the need to resolve the complex national issue or actually to bring it into accord and make closer to the internal, but also to the international goals and interests of the Yugoslav state. Its atheistic-secularist nature basically conditioned its relationship to the religious communities in the state, whose “potentials” should be controlled, directed and used in a desirable way. The state, actually, supported the secular (non-church) principle by which every nation should have its own Church, striving in time directly, consistently and firmly to exert influence on its application in practice as such. Taking such activities, it disregarded the church reasons and needs, what particularly made a negative impact on the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC). The Roman Catholic Church (RCC), as the second church (religious) community in the country by the number of its believers, recognised that its interests coincided with such endeavours and activities of the state. It discretely supported the political process of gaining of “autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church” (MOC).

National Socialism and the Roman Catholic Church

Thought ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-725
Author(s):  
Wilfrid Parsons ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Roman Catholic Church
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