The Pope's Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War (2015) is a book by Canadian historian Jacques Kornberg which examines Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, a controversial topic.

Pope Benedict XII (Latin: Benedictus XII, French: Benoît XII; 1285 – 25 April 1342), born Jacques Fournier, was a cardinal and inquisitor, later head of the Catholic Church from 30 December 1334 to his death, in April 1342.

Dec 1, 2015 · In The Pope’s Dilemma, Jacques Kornberg takes the reader on an odyssey to examine the reasons why Pope Pius XII might have chosen silence and inaction over outright condemnation of Nazi atrocities committed during the Second World War.

May 27, 2015 · Delving deep into Catholic theology and ecclesiology, Jacques Kornberg argues instead that what drove Pius XII was the belief that his highest priority must be to preserve the authority of the...

University of Toronto Professor Emeritus Jacques Kornberg in The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War has crafted a masterfully researched, carefully argued, highly readable, and scholarly monograph that adds greatly to the historical literature concerning Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. Expressing ...

Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War. By: Jacques Kornberg. Series: German and European Studies

Feb 6, 2018 · In The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War, Jacques Kornberg carefully and with an admirably even hand traces many of the polemics surrounding the pontiff. “Why,” he asks, “was the …

alleged silence of Pope Pius XII into sharp relief. Examining the development of Maritain's philosemitism, this article presents a more nuanced assessment, challenging historically rooted general izations about his attitudes toward Jews in the …