Die Enzyklika „Mit brennender Sorge“, Zollschan, Pacelli und die Steyler Missionare

Author(s)

Peter Rohrbacher

Abstract

The encyclical „Mit brennender Sorge“: Zollschan, Pacelli and the Divine Word Missionaries – This study examines three new findings from the Roman archives that places the encyclical “Mit brennender Sorge” (with burning anxiety) in the context of the Roman curia’s racial debate. Focusing on the environment of State Secretary Eugenio Pacelli, the following concepts are scrutinized: 1. The Austrian Jewish physician Ignaz Zollschan (1877–1948) gave the decisive impetus for a rescript against Nazi racism, published on April 13, 1938 by the Congregation of Studies. 2. Pacelli took over the phrase used for the title of the encyclical “Mit brennender Sorge” from Josef Grendel (1878–1951), the General Superior of the Divine Word Missionary Order. 3. A study combating the evolutionary theory, provided by the Austrian ethnologist Wilhelm Schmidt SVD (1868–1954) in October 1936 for the Holy Office, was used as a draft text for the planned encyclical against racism that was never published.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte

Volume

109

Pages

198-225

No. of pages

28

ISSN

0035-7812

Publication date

2014

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

509017 Social studies of science

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences, Anthropology

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/50e0b0b8-dee4-4b3d-ae4e-09a64a3ca145