High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Moral Reckoning, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who also authored Hitler`s Willing Executioners, is a 2003 American non-fiction book examining the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the Holocaust. More fully titled A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair, the book offers a review of scholarship in English addressing what Goldhagen argues is anti-Semitism throughout the history of the Church, which the book claims contributed substantially to the persecution of the Jews during World War II.