Were the Popes Against the Jews?: Tracking the Myths, Confronting the Ideologues

by Justus George Lawler

How many people know that a modern pope publicly referred to Jews as dogs; that two other modern popes called the Jewish religion Satan's synagogue; that at the beginning of the twentieth century another pope refused to save the life of a Jew accused of ritual murder, even though the pope knew the man was innocent? Lastly, how many people know that only a decade before the rise of Hitler, another pope supported priests who called for the extermination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802866298
• ISBN13: 9780802866295
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"