Review of Alexander Lamprecht, Zwischen Seelsorge und Diktatur: Südtirols Kirche in der NS-Zeit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Review of Alexander Lamprecht, Zwischen Seelsorge und Diktatur: Südtirols Kirche in der NS-Zeit. Bozen (Bolzano): Athesia Verlag, 2019. 299 pp. By Martin Menke, Rivier University This volume is a revised…
Review of Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019). ISBN 978-0-674-98342-7. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this useful volume,…
Review of Johannes Sachslehner, Hitlers Mann im Vatikan: Bischof Alois Hudal: ein dunkles Kapitel in der Geschichte der Kirche
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Johannes Sachslehner, Hitlers Mann im Vatikan: Bischof Alois Hudal: ein dunkles Kapitel in der Geschichte der Kirche (Graz: Molden Verlag, 2019). ISBN 978-3-222-15040-1. By Martin Menke, Rivier University…
Conference Report: Panel Discussion on David Kertzer, The Pope at War, ACHA/AHA
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 1 (Spring 2024) Conference Report: Panel Discussion on David Kertzer, The Pope at War, ACHA/AHA By Martin Menke, Rivier University At this year’s American Catholic Historical Association conference, held in conjunction with the American…
Review of Doris L. Bergen, Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 3/4 (Fall 2023) Review of Doris L. Bergen, Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. By Martin Menke, Rivier University (mmenke@rivier.edu) Doris Bergen is the Chancellor Rose…
Review of Hans-Otto Mühleisen and Dominik Burkard, Erzbischof Conrad Groeber reloaded: Warum es sich lohnt, genauer hinzusehen
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Hans-Otto Mühleisen and Dominik Burkard, Erzbischof Conrad Gröber reloaded: Warum es sich lohnt, genauer hinzusehen (Lindenberg: Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2020). ISBN 978-3-95976-305-9. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this…
Review of Josef Meyer zu Schlochten and Johannes W. Vutz, eds., Lorenz Jaeger: Ein Erzbischof in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 29, Number 1/2 (Summer 2023) Review of Josef Meyer zu Schlochten and Johannes W. Vutz, eds., Lorenz Jaeger: Ein Erzbischof in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (Münster: Aschendorff, 2020). ISBN 978-3-402-24674-0. By Martin Menke, Rivier University…
Review of Michael Hesemann, Der Papst und der Holocaust: Pius XII. und die geheimen Akten im Vatikan
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 28, Number 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2022) Review of Michael Hesemann, Der Papst und der Holocaust: Pius XII. und die geheimen Akten im Vatikan (Stuttgart: Langenmüller, 2020). 448 pages. ISBN 978-3-7844-3449-0. By Martin Menke, Rivier University Michael…
Review of Jonas Hagedorn, Oswald von Nell-Breuning: Aufbrüche der katholischen Soziallehre in der Weimarer Republik
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Review of Jonas Hagedorn, Oswald von Nell-Breuning: Aufbrüche der katholischen Soziallehre in der Weimarer Republik (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019). 532 pages. ISBN 978-3-657-78795-1. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this…
Review of Wilfried Loth. “Freiheit und Würde des Volkes:” Katholizismus und Demokratie in Deutschland
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 3 (September 2021) Review of Wilfried Loth, “Freiheit und Würde des Volkes:” Katholizismus und Demokratie in Deutschland, Religion und Moderne, Vol. 13 (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2018). ISBN 978-3-593-50838-2. By Martin R. Menke,…
Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.” The 10th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Pacific Lutheran University, November 1-3, 2017. By…
Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism,” Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, January 6, 2017 By Jeremy Stephen Roethler, Texas State University This session…
Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust: “The Holocaust Today: New Directions in Research and Teaching,” November 1-4, 2012, Northwestern University. By Lauren Faulkner, University of Notre Dame Professor Emeritus…