Carol Rittner R.S.M.

Dr. Rittner is the author, editor or co-editor of numerous essays and books about the Holocaust and Christian-Jewish relations, including Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991); What’s the “Good News” After Auschwitz? (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001), Pius XII and the Holocaust (London and New York: University of Leicester Press/Continuum Publishers, 2002); No Going Back:Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on the Holocaust, Christian-Jewish Relations and the State of Israel (Laxton, UK: Quill Press, 2009); The Holocaust and Nostra Aetate: Toward A Greater Understanding (Greensburg, PA: Seton Hill University Press, 2017); and The Holocaust and the Christian World, 2nd ed. (Mahwah, NJ: A Stimulus Book, Paulist Press, 2019). She is the co-editor, with John K. Roth, of the forthcoming book Stress Test: The Hamas-Israel War and Christian-Jewish Relations (iPub Global, 2025).

Her international engagement further demonstrates Dr. Rittner’s commitment to fostering interfaith understanding and peace. Between 1985 and 2010, she led numerous groups of Christians to Israel, facilitating meetings with Israeli Jews, Muslims, Druse, and Christians. These visits also included interactions with Palestinians in Bethlehem, providing a platform for learning about and discussing the ongoing obstacles and possibilities for peace in the region.

She is the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates from Misericordia University, Dallas, PA (1990), King’s College, Wilkes Barre, PA (1999), Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ (2002), and The College of St. Mary, Omaha, NB (2011). In 2022, the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA, honored Dr. Rittner with the Nostra Aetate Award, which “acknowledges distinguished work in the field of Jewish-Catholic relations and, in particular, recognizes scholarship that enhanced interfaith understanding.”