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Reichskonkordat

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Mit brennender Sorge

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Mit brennender Sorge, Pope Pius XI "condemned the neopaganism of the Nazi ideology-especially its theory of racial superiority...". Drafted by the future Pope Pius XII and read from the pulpits of all German Catholic churches, it described Hitler as an insane and arrogant prophet and was the first official denunciation of Nazism made by any major organization

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  • Whether to use Bokenkotter's characterization of "Mit Brennender Sorge" which appears to be a selective quote from Falconi


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Holocaust

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  • Whether it is appropriate to get into the details of what David Kertzer and Pinchas Lapide asserted and what others though of Lapide's work
  • Whether the characterization of persecution in the Soviet Union is appropriate (considering that the persecution assuredly targeted Orthodox clergy more than Catholic clergy)
  • Whether it is necessary to cite the text of John Paul II's apology and to mention that he made it by inserting a prayer into the Western Wall
  • Whether the Church has encouraged or tolerated antisemitism over the course of history
  • Whether to mention the antisemitic statements and actions of Catholic clergy in Croatia The Catholic Church in Croatia and anti-Semitism