Père Merklen’s War: Editing France’s Catholic Newspaper During the Dark Years
Examining how the daily newspaper La Croix and its editor-in-chief, Father Léon Merklen, negotiated the Dark Years of the Occupation, this article addresses common categories of resistance and collaboration as they pertain to the French Catholic Church during World War II. Resistance and collaborati...
| Published in: | The catholic historical review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
[2021]
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2021, Volume: 107, Issue: 1, Pages: 50-77 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Merklen, Pierre-Fourrier 1875-1949
/ La Croix (Journal)
/ France
/ Orchestration
/ Third Reich
/ Resistance
/ Collaboration
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBG France RH Evangelization; Christian media SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B Vichy France B La Croix B Collaboration B Dark Years of Occupation B Léon Merklen |
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| Summary: | Examining how the daily newspaper La Croix and its editor-in-chief, Father Léon Merklen, negotiated the Dark Years of the Occupation, this article addresses common categories of resistance and collaboration as they pertain to the French Catholic Church during World War II. Resistance and collaboration are both necessary but problematic terms. We need to account for the complexity and fluidity of the experiences of the majority of Catholics, including clergy, who do not fall easily into one of these categories. Merklen’s story introduces us to an ineliminable grey area at the heart of Catholic responses to Vichy, Nazism, and the Holocaust. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2021.0002 |