January 19, 2002

Fantasy Land That Goldhagen New

Fantasy Land

That Goldhagen New Republic article on the Holocaust and the Catholic Church is still unavailable on-line, as I've mentioned; but, in the venerable tradition of academics and chatterati, it's still possible to comment on others' comments on Goldhagen's comments.

For example, there's this piece in Forward, entitled "Catholics, Jews unite to attack scholar's latest" (link via Andrew Sullivan.) Eugene Fisher, associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, had this to say about Goldhagen: "he lives in fantasy land and he is making this up. It's a sad case and he ought to see a psychiatrist."

It seems to me that, whatever the merits or faults of Goldhagen's case, his critics are going to have to do better than that.

Posted by Dr. Frank at January 19, 2002 10:53 AM | TrackBack