A Moral Reckoning, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who also authored Hitler's Willing Executioners, is a 2003 American non-fiction book examining the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the Holocaust. More fully titled A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, the book offers a review of scholarship in English addressing what Goldhagen argues is anti-Semitism throughout the history of the Church, which the book claims contributed substantially to the persecution of the Jews during World War II.
The book recommends several significant steps which might be taken by the Church to make reparation for its alleged role. A Moral Reckoning received mixed reviews and was the subject of considerable controversy regarding allegations of inaccuracies and anti-Catholic bias.
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