Letter from the Editors (Spring 2025)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Letter from the Editors (Spring 2025) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, Since my last missive, many events have prompted me to remember lines from a Yeats…
Letter from the Editors (Winter 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Letter from the Editors (Winter 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, Very warm Christmas greetings to our readers! Once again I bring our issue to post…
Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, As we near the end of September, I am again tardy in posting our latest…
Letter from the Editors (Summer 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Letter from the Editors (Summer 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, As June turns into July, we reach the halfway mark of 2024, and I am…
Letter from the Editors (Spring 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 1 (Spring 2024) Letter from the Editors (Spring 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, As winter turns to spring, we at the CCHQ are thrilled to bring you the…
Letter from the Editors (Fall 2023)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 3/4 (Fall 2023) Letter from the Editors (Fall 2023) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, A very happy new year’s greeting to all readers of Contemporary Church History Quarterly! I…
Review of David Rice, I Will Not Serve: The Priest Who Said NO to Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of David Rice, I Will Not Serve: The Priest Who Said NO to Hitler (Dublin: Mentor Books, 2018). ISBN: 978-1-912514-04-5. By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University In the…
Review of A Hidden Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) Review of A Hidden Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick (Fox Searchlight 2019) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi The Extraordinary Stance of an Ordinary Man Scholarship tells us that the…
Review of Maria Anna Zumholz and Michael Hirschfeld, eds., Zwischen Seelsorge und Politik: Katholische Bischöfe in der NS-Zeit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2 (June 2019) Review of Maria Anna Zumholz and Michael Hirschfeld, eds., Zwischen Seelsorge und Politik: Katholische Bischöfe in der NS-Zeit (Münster: Aschendorf Verlag, 2017), XII + 817 Pp., ISBN: 9783402132289. By Lauren…
Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies XV, The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 4 (December 2018) Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies XV, The Holocaust: Global Perspectives and National Narratives, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2018 By Lauren Rossi, Simon Fraser University The Holocaust Educational Foundation’s…
Review of Martin Röw, Militärseelsorge unter dem Hakenkreuz: die katholische Feldpastoral, 1939-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Review of Martin Röw, Militärseelsorge unter dem Hakenkreuz: die katholische Feldpastoral, 1939-1945 (Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2014). By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Martin Röw’s Militärseelsorge unter dem Hakenkreuz…
Review of John Pollard, The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) Review of John Pollard, The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 560 Pp., ISBN: 9780199208562. By Lauren Faulkner Rossi The papacy during the first…
Review of Rebecca Ayako Bennette, Fighting for the Soul of Germany: The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2015) Review of Rebecca Ayako Bennette, Fighting for the Soul of Germany: The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012). 380 Pp., ISBN 9780674065635. By Lauren…
Conference Note: Lessons and Legacies 2014, Boca Raton, Florida
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 4 (December 2014) Conference Note: Lessons and Legacies 2014, Boca Raton, Florida By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, University of Notre Dame The thirteenth biennial Holocaust conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation, took place from…
Review of Wilhelm Damberg, ed., Soziale Strukturen und Semantiken des Religiösen im Wandel
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Review of Wilhelm Damberg, ed., Soziale Strukturen und Semantiken des Religiösen im Wandel (Essen: Klartext, 2011), 224 Pp. Originally reviewed for H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online (H-German). By Lauren…