Talk:John Cornwell (writer)
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Untitled edit
I added the below inside the body of the text because the article seemed to short to start an external links page, especially with only one entry.
I did not make a change (except to add Cornwall's birth year) but I don't think this is a balanced article. It is basically an attack on Cornwall. I agree that all of the criticisms need to remain, but they should be balanced by supportive references. I could cite a few, but my preference would be that someone who has greater familiarity with Cornwell and has done deeper research would do that. But as written, I think this violates the Wikipedia standard of neutrality. 70.90.220.214 22:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Novel edit
Cornwell is put in the class of non-fiction writers, although he has written novels. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 (talk) 10:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Vanity page edit
Vanity page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 13:13, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
A Pontiff in Winter - POV edit
The paragraph doesn't quote Roman-Catholic opinions. Xx236 (talk) 06:46, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
opinions and unsourced statements edit
Most if not all of paragraphs 2 and 3 of the section "Hitler's Pope" are opinions, unsourced statements, and arguments, which have very little or nothing to do with a biography of Cornwell. (It looks very like an editor tried to rebut Cornwell's arguments but didn't have the materials to back up the rebuttal.)
The passage from "However, between 1933...." to ...Mit brennender Sorge" has been removed, since it's not part of a summary of the book but consists only of unsourced statements used to rebut Cornwell's thesis.
The passage, "Early reviews of...." to "...thousands of Jews." likewise consists only of unsourced statements, and should be removed. If there is no substantial and substantiated disagreement, I will also remove that passage after a reasonable time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruckner (talk • contribs) 01:44, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
Evidence in support of Cornwell, 2023 edit
I have moved the 2020 mention from the NYT that the Vatican was unsealing Pope Pius XXII's letters into a new subhead area and combined it with today's news that the examination of the archived correspondence contains evidence that supports a portion of Cornwell's thesis. I placed it in this article to balance what seemed like an inordinate amount of criticism of Cornwell's book, without eliminating the criticism. My intention was to show that updated research vindicates the truth of Cornwell's allegation that the pope new full well about the extermination of Jews in Nazi death camps as early as 1942 and refused to act upon his knowledge. Catherineyronwode (talk) 17:57, 17 September 2023 (UTC)