 In his 2003 book , A Moral Reckoning , Daniel Goldhagen , asserted that Pius XII " chose again and again not to mention the Jews publicly .... [ In ] public statements by Pius XII ... any mention of the Jews is conspicuously absent . " In a review of Goldhagen 's book , Mark <unk> counters that Pius used the word " Jew " in his first encyclical , Summi Pontificatus , published on 20 October 1939 . " There Pius insisted that all human beings be treated charitably — for , as Paul had written to the Colossians , in God 's eyes " there is neither Gentile nor Jew . " In saying this , the Pope affirmed that Jews were full members of the human community — which is Goldhagen 's own criterion for establishing ' dissent from the anti @-@ Semitic creed . ' " 
