Dissertation will explore Christianity and Holocaust February 28, 2021
A couple years ago, Prof. Robert Ventresca at King’s University College in London, Ont., was marking papers submitted to him by a precocious, intense, serious and curious undergraduate enrolled in his seminar on the role of religion in the Holocaust.
Now the world-renowned Catholic scholar of the Holocaust is looking forward to the research his former student Mia Theocharis will produce on Christianity and the role it played in and after the Holocaust as she works toward a PhD at the University of St. Michael’s College in Toronto.
“I am especially interested in Mia’s focus on the fundamental transformation in Jewish-Catholic relations after the Holocaust, including the profound changes in Catholic teaching about Jews and Judaism in the wake of Vatican II,” Ventresca told