Maximilian Kolbe: Ein Heiliger gegen die Juden?
Canonized in 1982 for giving his life for another person and his missionary zeal Kolbe's Catholicism was however a militant. To conquer the world for the Immaculata, he founded the "Militia of the Immaculata" in Rome (1917), a group of spiritual soldiers with unquestioning dedication...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2002
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2002, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 218-237 |
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| Summary: | Canonized in 1982 for giving his life for another person and his missionary zeal Kolbe's Catholicism was however a militant. To conquer the world for the Immaculata, he founded the "Militia of the Immaculata" in Rome (1917), a group of spiritual soldiers with unquestioning dedication to Mary (750000 members worldwide in 1938). In 1922 he began publishing the monthly "Knight of the Immaculata" that enjoyed the largest circulation of any periodical in Poland (1 mio.copies in 1938). In 1935 he founded the "Maly Dziennik", however he wasn't the editor-in-chief but had only general indirect supervision as superior of Niepokalanów. Even if the main attack of both publications was directed against Freemasonry, the „Synagogue of Satan”, the papers also charged the Jews as a still greater danger for Poland's catholic moral and economy. Kolbe's Knight and Maly Dziennik spread the belief into the myth of the Jewish World Domination, into the unholy Alliance between Jews and Freemasons as well as between Jews and Communismus to destroy Christianity and build a world government on the ruins of Christian civilisation. His two postulates read: conversion of the Jews and the pledge for Jewish emigration. It can be said, that Kolbe's verbal antisemitism in the 1920 th and 1930 th damaged his image of the good Samaritan amongst the Poles during the genozide. However, the accusation that the destruction of the Polish Jewry during the Second World War was in way connected to the earlier catholic antisemitism and hence to Kolbe as its eminent authority is mouthing a very partial view of his actions and influence. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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