A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, with Illustrations)

ISBN: 9780316724463

Little, Brown & Company, 03 November 2002

Hardcover, 384 pages

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen cuts through the historical and moral fog to examine the Catholic Church’s role in the Holocaust, arguing that its complicity in the persecution of Jews was far deeper than previously understood. He contends that Church leaders were aware of the atrocities yet largely failed to oppose them, and in some cases supported aspects of the persecution. The book develops a framework for assessing the Church’s responsibility and argues that it has an unfulfilled moral duty to acknowledge and repair the harm caused.