Appeasement and Nietzsche’s Eternal Return Sometimes it seems as if Nietzsche was right, and History does indeed return to the same things over and over again in an endless pattern. The variable may be time, but not the acts themselves. Despite the fact that we are...
Attacking Iran: Is there an option? It seems that a clear parallel can be drawn between the former situation with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and the situation in the 1930s with Adolf Hitler and Germany. Both were cases of megalomaniac dictators openly bent on...
The Essence of a Translation: Was John Cornwell’s “Hitler’s Pope” malicious, and wrong? With the arrival of Communism in the Soviet Union, with its atheistic outlook, the Church became convinced it was a “Satanic” force bent on destroying Christianity and European...
Official Church Publications: What Did the Church Have to Say? Before the Second World War erupted the Holy See published the encyclical “With burning anxiety”, written largely by Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli at the behest of Pope Pius XI. This...
Seeing Pope Pius XII in a Different Light: From Saint to Villain? During WWII and in subsequent years, all the way to his death in 1958, Pope Pius XII was praised for his compassion and work to save Jews during the Holocaust. Many Jewish leaders praised him publicly....
Membership in the Nazi Party: Is that OK, Father? When thinking of the reason why the German Catholic Church thought it proper to lift the ban on membership in the Nazi Party in 1933 one needs to think of what the church stands for. If the church felt that the Nazi...
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