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Paul O'Shea

Paul Damian O'Shea, born 1962, is an Australian born Holocaust historian and secondary school educator who specialises in the papacy of Pope Pius XII and Catholic responses to the Holocaust. He has taught and written on Holocaust history and Pius XII since 1998. He is a founding director of the Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and has been a regular presenter at a variety of forums in Australia and overseas.

He holds degrees in Theology (Yarra Theological Union, Melbourne), Education and TESOL (Australian Catholic University, Sydney), and History (Macquarie University, Sydney).

He received his PhD from Macquarie University, Sydney, in 2004. O'Shea's dissertation, "Eugenio Pacelli, the Catholic Church and the Jews. An Examination of the Responsibility of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, 1917-1943", was first published by Rosenberg Press in 2008 under the title "A Cross Too Heavy" and then published by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, in 2011 under the same title.

O'Shea's work has also been published in "Genocide Perspectives" (volumes 2 - 2003, 3 - 2006 and 4 - 2012).

In March 2009 he participated in a seminar on the current state of research into Pope Pius XII hosted at Yad Vashem. His paper appeared in the anthology "Pius XII and the Holocaust: current state of research" (2012). He was also a presenter (via video presentation) at the conference hosted by the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem on the topic "The End of 1942: A Turning Point in World War II and in the Comprehension of the Final Solution?" The paper was entitled "Pius XII, the Vatican and the moral imperative to do good - Christmas 1942".

O'Shea's research and study of Pius XII and the Holocaust is featured on his blog - Paul on Pius - which he started in March 2010. The blog is intended to be a forum for balanced scholarship into the war-time papacy of Pius XII. His research paradigm on Pius is found in the first entry.

Paul O'Shea has taught in Sydney Catholic schools since 1994. He is currently Dean of Mission at Rosebank College, Five Dock, an independent Catholic school in the Good Samaritan-Benedictine tradition.

Bibliography

Paul O'Shea, A Cross Too Heavy: Eugenio Pacelli, politics and the Jews of Europe, 1917-1943, Sydney, Rosenberg Press, 2008. Paul O'Shea, A Cross Too Heavy: Pope Pius XII and the Jews of Europe, New York, Palgrave, 2011.

External Links

Paul on Pius blog: http://paulonpius.blogspot.com.au Campagna, the Bishop and the Archives: http://archive.adl.org/interfaith/20091116_ArticleCampagnaTheBisho_and_the%20Archives.pdf