Catholic pacifist : the long and lonely quest of Gordon Zahn / Benjamin T. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Tyler), 1973- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zahn, Gordon C. (Gordon Charles), 1918-2007.

Zahn, Gordon C.

Catholics--United States--Biography.

Catholics.

Pacifists--United States--Biography.

Pacifists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Gordon Zahn is a fascinating lay figure in the twentieth century US church. Arguably he is best known for his biography of Franz Jägerstätter, the German pacifist whom the Nazis guillotined for his refusal to fight. But Zahn, who was a conscientious objector during the Second World War also wrote "German Catholics and Hitler's Wars," which was unsettling as he argued that the German church had perhaps aided Hitler by stressing it to be the duty of German Catholics to fight for their country. Additionally, Zahn was involved in the Catholic Worker movement, and was co-founder of Pax Christi"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

The formation of a Catholic pacificist

Camp Simon

Supernatural sociology

Finding Franz

The "long controversy"

Return to St. Radegund

"The lesson of German Catholicism"

In Solitary Witness

Peace lobby

The ground begins to shift

"The great Catholic upheaval"

Dean of the Catholic peace movement

Legacies

Appendix 1: Archbishop Thomas Roberts, SJ's intervention at Vatican II

Appendix II: Court records from military tribunal of Franz Jägerstätter on July 6, 1943.

Notes:

Includes appendices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Peters, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Tyler), 1973- Catholic pacifist

ISBN:

9780813240091

0813240093

OCLC:

1530784506