Humani generis unitas

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Humani generis unitas ( Latin for From the unity of the human race ) was a 1938 commissioned by Pope Pius XI. designed to the Jesuits Gustav Gundlach and John La Farge , but no longer under the pontificate of Pius XI. published encyclical . In some places this is also called Societatis unio .

This contained an even clearer condemnation of anti-Semitism compared to Mit Burning Sorge , but also dealt with totalitarianism and the question of the demarcation of legitimate authority from humiliating tyranny.

In view of the war that has now broken out , Pius XII. only parts of it are used in Summi pontificatus (1939), other aspects are emphasized in Humani generis (1950).

literature

  • Eva Fleischner (Ed.): Auschwitz: beginning of a new era? : Reflections on the holocaust. Papers given at the International Symposium on the Holocaust held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, June 3 to 6, 1974 . New York: Ktav Pub. Co., 1977
  • John F. Morley: Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews during the Holocaust, 1939-1943 . New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1980
  • Georges Passelecq, Bernard Suchecky: The suppressed encyclical. The Vatican and the Persecution of Jews , Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-26563-4 (first French 1989)
  • Impulse group One human family: Humani generis unitas: The Catholic dogma in the 3rd millennium - The unity of the human family , Woll: Schmallenberg 2015, ISBN 978-9463186704