Title: Structure of Deceit
Product review: This self-indulgent book doesn't make its case. The author claims to write a history, but he does not use primary sources, relies strongly on secondary sources by anti-Catholic journalists, and systematically distorts Church statements to remove clear and extended condemnations of anti-Semitism.Reading this book, one would never know that Pius XI delivered a well-publicized enclyclical denouincing the Nazi regime in 1937, with three sections entirely devoted to the defense of the Old Testament and a criticism of anti-Semitism. One would also never know that in the same year, Eugenio Pacelli (future Pius XII) delivered an address at Lourdes denouncing the barbarism, especially the anti-Semitism, of the Third Reich.The entire purpose of this bogus "history" is the effort of an excommunicated, embittered priest to trash an institution in which he no longer believes.
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