Catholic Church

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  6/30/2020
  

  St. Louis’s Statue of Pius XII: A Double-Standard

  by Eunice G. Pollack

  If Yale has renamed a residential college named for John C. Calhoun and Princeton will cease to name its public policy school after Woodrow Wilson, the Jesuit St. Louis University should consider evidence of Pope Pius XII's actions in the face of the Holocaust and remove his statue from campus. 

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  6/7/2020
  

  “It’s About Time They Got Here”: Catholics and the Civil Rights Movement

  by Pat McNamara

  A Church historian advocates learning about how American Catholics have supported and challenged racism.

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• SOURCE: Catholic Sun
  5/22/2020
  

  Polish Historian Questions German Researcher’s Claims About Wartime Pope

  "I’ve never personally encountered a situation in which 11 volumes of material, published over two decades, are suddenly countermanded by a single document, found after a few days’ research," says Jan Zaryn.

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• 5/17/2020
  

  What the New Evidence on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Means

  by Rafael Medoff

  In the end, whatever their respective reasons, the Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.

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• SOURCE: National Catholic Register
  5/1/2020
  

  Pope Pius XII Detractor Cries Wolf

  German historian and Catholic Priest Father Hubert Wolf has claimed that recently opened Vatican documents show Pope Pius XII was complicit with Nazi atrocities. Other Church historians dispute the novelty or veracity of his evidence.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  5/3/2020
  

  German Catholic Bishops Admit They Were ‘Complicit’ In Nazi Crimes

  Germany’s Catholic bishops have acknowledged that they were “complicit” in allowing the Nazis to rise to power.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/2020
  

  Pope Pius XII, Accused of Silence During the Holocaust, Knew Jews Were Being Killed, Researcher Says

  A team of resesarchers led by Hubert Wolf discovered documents suggesting Pope Pius XII knew at an early stage of the Nazi efforts at genocide, concealed those facts from the United States government and others, and concealed documents to protect the Church's image.

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• SOURCE: America Magazine
  4/27/2020
  

  Review: Phyllis Zagano Makes The Case For Women Deacons

  Phyllis Zagano's most recent work "Women: Icons of Christ," examines the ways women have participated and been acknowledged as deacons in the body of Christ.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/9/19
  

  How Africa is transforming the Catholic Church

  by Elizabeth A. Foster

  Pope Francis’s visit to Africa highlights the growing trend toward decolonizing Catholicism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/2/2019
  

  The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings

  America’s nuns are beginning to confront their ties to slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  July 5, 2019
  

  Did the Vatican Hide Art That Depicted Female Priests?

  A historian finds Catholic iconography with women performing acts that only men are allowed to do today—and that the works were covered up. Others aren’t convinced.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/27/19
  

  What Catholic Church records tell us about America’s earliest black history

  by Jane Landers

  These records date back to the 1590s and document some of the earliest black history of the U.S.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/13/19
  

  When the Catholic Church’s prohibition on scandal helped women

  by Sara McDougall

  But why has scandal been systematically silenced in the church for so long? One answer lies in the medieval church's doctrine on scandal.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/20/19
  

  The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses

  by William S. Cossen

  Colonizing indigenous land and constructing walls, both figurative and literal, to win public influence and political power is not a new story in American Catholic history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-5-18
  

  How views on priestly celibacy changed in Christian history

  by Kim Haines-Eitzen

  The fact is for a long time the Catholic Church struggled with its interpretation of Scriptures on priestly celibacy. It wasn’t until the 12th century that priestly celibacy became mandatory.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-17-18
  

  Kathleen Sprows Cummings says the Catholic Church needs wholesale radical transformation

  by Kathleen Sprows Cummings

  In an op ed in the NYT she says she can nom longer advocate piecemeal reforms.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-9-17
  

  Art historian Jaime Lara’s dark secret as a child abuser has been disclosed by the Catholic Church

  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn revealed that 25 years ago, Mr. Lara, then known as the Rev. James Lara, was laicized by the Vatican for sexually abusing children.

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• 10-28-17
  

  500 Years Ago Christianity Changed. It Changed Again in the 1960s.

  by Patrick Lacroix

  How the Reformation looks now.

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• 9-18-16
  

  Congratulations Georgetown. Now It’s Time to Own Up to the Racist History of the Catholic Church.

  by Shannen Dee Williams

  The Catholic Church was the largest corporate slaveholder in the Americas. But this history is barely acknowledged.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5-27-15
  

  Climate of Change: The Catholic Church's Dance With Science

  From Galileo to genetics, the Roman Catholic Church has danced with science, sometimes in a high-tension tango but more often in a supportive waltz. Pope Francis is about to introduce a new twist: global warming.