Piece worth reading on Italian fascism as political religion and lessons for perils of rise of fascism today. I don't entirely agree with Emilio Gentile's view of fascism as religion but this is worth pondering.
https://t.co/Qke34fX1cQ
American Academy in Rome announced today bequest of $3 million in support of the Humanities at the AAR from renowned classicist Michael Putnam.
https://t.co/WvKa753txK
David Kertzer’s article which will appear in the February issue, but is already available on OnlineFirst, has been picked up by Catholic media in Germany. @DavidKertzer@StPatsMaynooth
https://t.co/u1RYPJpL4y
My tribute with John Bodel to our remarkable colleague, classicist Michael Putnam, now available open access in the latest issue of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
https://t.co/UBdNWvpUgn
My new book, THE SECRET INQUISITION, announced today in Publishers Lunch newsletter. Publication date a year from now with Random House. The story told for the first time of the thousands of Jews persecuted under Mussolini's racial laws who sought to be recategorized as Aryans.
Prof. David Kertzer’s article on “Eugenio Pacelli and the Vatican’s Irish Plan to Save Baptised Jews (1938-1939) has just been published on OnlineFirst ahead of the Feb 2026 issue. See below.
https://t.co/7YSGkR6nVl
“In his four years as pope, Pius XII had never spoken out against Italy’s anti-Jewish racial laws.”
― David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler 🇻🇦🇮🇱🇻🇦
Companion book to the Movie Nuremberg.
@russellcrowe@Pontifex@VaticanNews
My article with Roberto Benedetti, "Mussolini Decides: Determining Racial Identity under Italy's Racial Laws," has just appeared in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies:
https://t.co/OHsomo7YTF
A big thanks to Prof David Kertzer who delivered a wonderful lecture last night at the Annual Monsignor Patrick J Corish lecture
📸(L-R) Rev Dr Michael Shortall, Interim President, Prof David Kertzer, Brown University, and Prof Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History
Last week’s Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture, delivered at @StPatsMaynooth by Prof. David Kertzer @DavidKertzer
features in The Tablet @The_Tablet. This paper will soon be published in @ITQjournal.
Glad to have had chance to speak at Ireland's pontifical university earlier this month and glad that The Tablet in the UK has featured my talk there.
A reexamination of a failed attempt in Ireland to help Jewish people persecuted in World War II https://t.co/Ndis9WwSSn
Never thought I would see this happen in western Europe.
Opinion: Jews feel safer facing Hamas in Israel than living in Labour’s Britain - The Telegraph https://t.co/TZQQtI5Kgq
NEW EPISODE! Hailed as the most important book ever written about the conduct of the Catholic Church in WWII, we have more of The Pope at War with author David Kertzer. https://t.co/kiQ1UIPv9P
The Pope at War Part 1 with David Kertzer — On the Someone Talked #podcast, @DavidKertzer discusses new revelations about what Pope Pius XII did and did not do during World War II, based on newly opened Vatican archives.
https://t.co/jZkL9SY65A
NEW EPISODE! With Pius XII's archives finally opened, David Kertzer paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped Europe from 1939 to 1945. https://t.co/xLfbXh7w6D