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Piety And Prayer In The Jewish Home, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher writes about the importance of the dignity of worship in the home.

Max Scheler And The Faith, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher writes about the restlessness of Max Scheler and analyzes the inconsistencies in his philosophy and faith.

Pro Perfidis Judaeis, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This article examines the meaning of perfidia and perfidus and the significance of the rubric directing certain omissions in the Good Friday petitions in the Roman Missal.

Racisme--Antisémitisme, Antichristianisme, Documents Et Critique, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Msgr. Oesterreicher completed this thesis shortly after escaping the grasp of the Gestapo when he fled from Austria to Paris.

His thesis argued that what started as a glorification of the so-called Aryan race would ultimately result in the persecution and disenfranchisement of the Jewish people and a contempt of all things human and Christian and was in essence, a rebellion against God's grace and mercy.

Hominem Non Habeo, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

In this article, John M. Oesterreicher protests in the name of justice, the Spirit, the Gospel and the Church against the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws, which had been promulgated one month earlier by the Third Reich in September 1935.

It is a turning point for the Die Erfüllung (The Fulfillment), the journal John M. Oesterreicher founded, which had previously avoided addressing political events. As Oesterreicher noted:

"We have refrained from expressing a reaction to the exclusion of German Jewry from the economic and social life of Germany. This, however, is no longer possible; we can no longer look on …