First Things recently ran a piece by Professor Robert George entitled, Our Big Brothers in the Faith, that although ostensibly written in response to the SSPX members who disrupted an interfaith service at the Cathedral in Buenos Aires commemorating Kristallnacht (a two day offensive against Jews that took place in Germany on November 9 and 10, 1938), it’s boilerplate post-conciliar, Nostra Aetate – John Paul “the” ahem… “Great” inspired religious diplomacy cloaked in righteous indignation.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of genuine indignation in the article, but rather than confining it to the actions of a handful of protesters (much less engaging the relative merits of their own indignation), George instead takes aim at the SSPX more generally.
After trotting out that worn out old saw about Society members “thinking they are more Catholic than the Pope,” George, in pot-calling-kettle-black fashion, picks up the nearest ferula and plays a little “if I were pope,” saying:
“Although I understand the efforts of the Vatican to reason with these people in the hope of persuading them to accept the teachings of the Second Vatican Council from which they vehemently dissent, these efforts were, in my opinion, doomed from the start by the sheer intransigence and fanaticism of the SSPX.”
He continues:
“I do not question the importance of avoiding schisms whenever possible, but the SSPX simply does not believe what the Church solemnly teaches in certain key areas. In particular, the SSPX rejects the teachings of ‘Dignitatis Humanae’ (on religious liberty) and ‘Nostra Aetate’ (on the Jewish people and non-Christian religions).”
Herein lies the second irony in as many paragraphs as apparently Professor George thinks the Second Vatican Council is more Catholic than Christ!
Nostra Aetate, as the previous post addresses, suggests that the Jews, a People whose identity “in our time” is firmly established upon their rejection of Jesus Christ, form the one people of God along with the children of the Church, in spite of the fact that Christ Himself said that in rejecting Him one rejects the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who sent Him.
A disinterested Buddhist can see how utterly illogical the conciliar proposition is, (provided, of course, that Jesus is to be believed) and yet Professor George, one of the shining stars of neo-con academia, simply cannot understand why a bona fide Catholic would “vehemently dissent” from such a “solemn teaching” as this.
Only in the disoriented world of Robert George and such esteemed confreres as George Weigel, and John Paul II for that matter, is siding with Christ over the text of Vatican II an unforgivable offense.
A question nobody has been able to answer for me one way or another in dealing Buenos Aires cathedral incident: Which faction of the SSPX was responsible for the protest? Bishop Fellay’s or the Resistance?
If you hold fast to Catholic teachings and traditions, and the pope doesn’t, then yeah, you are more Catholic than he is.
Yes, this proud worldling Professor (of heresy)….is right on the ‘target’……. WE ARE FOOLS and FANATICS for JESUS CHRIST!
Nostra Aetate fails to make a crucial distinction between Jews as individuals and the Jewish religion. True, Jews are not under a curse that precludes their salvation, since our sacred history is rife with Jewish converts who left the religion of the synagogue and embraced the Catholic Church.
What is today called the Jewish religion, however, is not of God, since it is based on a rejection of the Messiah. Our Lord warned the Jews of His day, “Therefore I say to you, that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people yielding its fruits.” (Matt: 21: 43)
Likewise St. Paul writes that Christ’s New Covenant “has made obsolete the former one.” (Heb. 8:13)
Truth will on
Truth will only be thought of as a ‘hate crime’ by those who ‘hate the truth’…………
‘His Truth’.
“Sict Judaeis Non” ‘and thus to the Jews’…….The term originated in a papal bull issued in 1120 by Pope Calixtus II and which became the Church’s official position, or its ‘Constitution for the Jews,’ and was many times reaffirmed by the Supreme Pontiffs through the ages. “History of Toleration,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
“So long as Jews remain Jews, a Jewish problem exists and will continue to exist. The question varies in intensity and degree from country to country. It is especially difficult in our country (Poland), and ought to be the object of serious consideration. I shall touch briefly here on its moral aspects in connection with the situation today (1936).
It is a fact that Jews are waging war against the Catholic Church, that they are steeped in freethinking and constitute the vanguard of atheism, the Bolshevik movement, and revolutionary activity. It is a fact that Jews have a corruptive influence on morals, and that their publishing house are spreading pornography. It is true that Jews are perpetuating fraud, practicing usury, and dealing in prostitution. It is true that, from a religious and ethical point of view, Jewish youth are having a negative influence on the Catholic youth in our schools. But let us be fair. Not all Jews are this way. There are very many Jews who are believers, honest, just , kind, and philanthropic. There is a healthy, edifying sense of family in very many Jewish homes. We know Jews who are ethically outstanding, noble and upright.
I warn against that moral stance, imported from abroad, that is basically and ruthlessly anti-Jewish. It is contrary to Catholic ethics. One may love one’s own nation more, but one may not hate anyone. Not even Jews. It is good to prefer your own kind when shopping, to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the marketplace, but it is forbidden to demolish Jewish store, damage their merchandise, break windows, or throw things at their homes. One should stay away from the harmful moral influence of Jews, keep away from the anti-Christian culture, and especially boycott the Jewish press and demoralizing Jewish publications. But it is forbidden to assault, beat up, maim, or slander Jews. One should honor Jews as human beings and neighbors, even thou we do not honor the indescribable tragedy of that nation, which is the guardian of the idea of the Messiah and from which was born the Savior. When Divine Mercy enlightens a Jew to sincerely accept his and our Messiah, let us greet him into our Christian ranks with joy.”………..Augustine Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Pastoral Letter, 1936, quoted by E. Michael Jones, “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History” 2008.
…….the repeated commands of the supreme pontiffs to all bishops, priest and lay people to protect the faith, alert the faithful, expose the enemy and forge a strong resistance against them………..
Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus), gives fair warning to the gentile and Jew alike……….”The greatest of all misfortunes is to fall away from the world’s Redeemer and to abandon Christian faith and practice………He gave Himself a redemption for all. In Christ all shall be made alive. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. Hence, by God’s eternal decree the salvation of all men, both individually and collectively, depends on JESUS CHRIST. Those who abandon Him become guilty by the very fact of their own ruin; while at the same time they do all that in them lies to bring about a violent reaction of mankind in the direction of that ‘mass of evils and miseries’ from which the Redeemer in His mercy had freed them.”
Pope Pius IX (Qui Pluribus)………”Because they have separated themselves miserably from God and Jesus Christ, men have fallen from their former happiness into an abyss of evils.”
Pope Pius XII (Summi Pontificatus)………….”The beginning of all the troubles which are driving this age of ours by a headlong course into spiritual bankruptcy and impotence for virtue, ‘is the impious attempt to dethrone Christ’. The Holy Gospel narrates that when Jesus was crucified ‘there was darkness over the whole earth’ (Matt. 27:45), a terrifying symbol of what happened and what still happens spiritually whenever incredulity, blind and proud, has succeeded in excluding Christ from modern life, especially from public life, and has undermined faith in GOD as well as faith in CHRIST”.
Pope Leo XII (Quo Graviora)……….”Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and his successors have been given the power and care of feeding and ruling the flock of Christ, our God and Savior. HENCE, the more grave the evils threatening the flock, the greater the solicitude the Roman pontiffs ought to employ in preventing them.”
Pope Pius XI, (Quo Graviora)………….’this duty of charity cannot in any way be understood to condone silence or non-resistance in the face of error, and more so in the face of evil, and he imposes a sentence of harsh judgment on consecrated ministers in the event they fail in this regard. The first gift of love made by the priest to those around, the one that is most obviously required……….is the one that consists in serving ‘the truth, the whole truth’, in uncovering and refuting error in any form no matter how it is masked or disguised. A failure on this pointwould only be a ‘betrayal of God and of your holy vocations, but also a ‘crime’ against the true interest of your people and your country…..The Church ‘cannot’ wait until altars have been overthrown and sacrilegious hands have destroyed the temples before beginning to cry out and protest.”
Pope Leo I (quoted in the statement, ‘Why You and I Must Speak Out Now!’……… http://www.TheFatimaCrusader.com ………….”Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men when we can do it………..is no less a sin than to encourage them.”
Pope Pius XI (Humani Gregeris Unitas)…………”Where, moreover, she (the Church) finds that hatred of the Christian religion has driven misguided souls, whether, of the Jewish people or of other origin, to ally themselves with or actively to promote revolutionary movements that aim to destroy society and to obliterate from the minds of men the knowledge, reverence, and love of God, ‘she must warn her children against such movements, expose the ruses and fallacies of their leaders, and find against them appropriate safeguards.”
Pope Leo XIII (Depuis le jour ‘Libreria Editrice Vaticana…… http://www.Vatican.VA/offices/papal_docs )………..”In the face of the combined efforts of incredulity and heresy to consummate the ruin of Catholic faith, ‘it would be a very real crime for the clergy to remain in a state of hesitancy and inactivity’. In such an outpouring of error (as in our day)………he must not prove faithless to his mission, which is to defend dogma assaulted, morality travestied and justice frequently outraged. It is for him to oppose himself as ‘a barrier’ to the attacks of error and the deceits of heresy; to watch the tact’s of the wicked who war with the faith………to unmask their plots and reveal their concealments; to warn the faithful, strengthen the timid and ‘open the eyes of the blinded’.
Pope Leo XIII (Etsi nos) to the bishops…………”And first endeavor to make your people understand of what ‘value’ the Catholic faith is to them, and how they ought to ‘defend’ it at every cost. But, since the enemies and assailants of the Catholic name employ a thousand devices and a thousand feints to seduce those who are not on their guard………..it is of the utmost importance to ‘unmask’ and to ‘drag into the light of day their secret machinations’, so that Catholics, having their ‘eyes opened’ to the real aimsof these men, may feel their own courage redoubled, and may resolve openly and intrepidly to ‘defend the Church, the Roman pontiff, and their own salvation.”………
Pope Pius XII (Menti Nostrae)…………..too exhorts his holy ministers, saying it is the ‘chief duty’ of the supreme pastorship as pope “to do Our utmost to help make the work of pastors and priests daily more efficacious in ‘encouraging the faithful to avoid evil, to overcome dangers and to acquire perfection. This is all the more necessary in our days when people and nations……..are suffering in the depths of their souls while ‘enemies of Catholicism, becoming BOLDER………are striving with hate and subtle snares to separate men from God and Jesus Christ.”
Pope Saint Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis)………..”Wherefore We may no longer keep silent, lest we should seem to fail in our most sacred duty……….”
Pope Pius VII (Diu Satis)……….”For too long have we been silent. The particular part of our duty which is expressed in the words, ‘strengthen your brethren,’ also urges us to ‘do so’. For at the present turbulent time, as much as ever, ‘Satan’……….has sought after us all in order to sift us as wheat……….Therefore it is our duty to help men and nations who are in distress, and to ‘eliminate all present and threatening evils’………..If ever anything deters, prevents, or delays any one of us from performing this task……….’what a disgraceful sin he will commit!’. Therefore, omit no watchfulness, diligence, care and effort, in order to ‘guard the deposit’ of Christ’s teaching whose destruction has been planned, as you know, by a great conspiracy.”
ly be thought of as a ‘hate crime’ by those who ‘hate the truth’…………
‘His Truth’.
“Sict Judaeis Non” ‘and thus to the Jews’…….The term originated in a papal bull issued in 1120 by Pope Calixtus II and which became the Church’s official position, or its ‘Constitution for the Jews,’ and was many times reaffirmed by the Supreme Pontiffs through the ages. “History of Toleration,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
“So long as Jews remain Jews, a Jewish problem exists and will continue to exist. The question varies in intensity and degree from country to country. It is especially difficult in our country (Poland), and ought to be the object of serious consideration. I shall touch briefly here on its moral aspects in connection with the situation today (1936).
It is a fact that Jews are waging war against the Catholic Church, that they are steeped in freethinking and constitute the vanguard of atheism, the Bolshevik movement, and revolutionary activity. It is a fact that Jews have a corruptive influence on morals, and that their publishing house are spreading pornography. It is true that Jews are perpetuating fraud, practicing usury, and dealing in prostitution. It is true that, from a religious and ethical point of view, Jewish youth are having a negative influence on the Catholic youth in our schools. But let us be fair. Not all Jews are this way. There are very many Jews who are believers, honest, just , kind, and philanthropic. There is a healthy, edifying sense of family in very many Jewish homes. We know Jews who are ethically outstanding, noble and upright.
I warn against that moral stance, imported from abroad, that is basically and ruthlessly anti-Jewish. It is contrary to Catholic ethics. One may love one’s own nation more, but one may not hate anyone. Not even Jews. It is good to prefer your own kind when shopping, to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the marketplace, but it is forbidden to demolish Jewish store, damage their merchandise, break windows, or throw things at their homes. One should stay away from the harmful moral influence of Jews, keep away from the anti-Christian culture, and especially boycott the Jewish press and demoralizing Jewish publications. But it is forbidden to assault, beat up, maim, or slander Jews. One should honor Jews as human beings and neighbors, even thou we do not honor the indescribable tragedy of that nation, which is the guardian of the idea of the Messiah and from which was born the Savior. When Divine Mercy enlightens a Jew to sincerely accept his and our Messiah, let us greet him into our Christian ranks with joy.”………..Augustine Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Pastoral Letter, 1936, quoted by E. Michael Jones, “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History” 2008.
…….the repeated commands of the supreme pontiffs to all bishops, priest and lay people to protect the faith, alert the faithful, expose the enemy and forge a strong resistance against them………..
Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus), gives fair warning to the gentile and Jew alike……….”The greatest of all misfortunes is to fall away from the world’s Redeemer and to abandon Christian faith and practice………He gave Himself a redemption for all. In Christ all shall be made alive. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. Hence, by God’s eternal decree the salvation of all men, both individually and collectively, depends on JESUS CHRIST. Those who abandon Him become guilty by the very fact of their own ruin; while at the same time they do all that in them lies to bring about a violent reaction of mankind in the direction of that ‘mass of evils and miseries’ from which the Redeemer in His mercy had freed them.”
Pope Pius IX (Qui Pluribus)………”Because they have separated themselves miserably from God and Jesus Christ, men have fallen from their former happiness into an abyss of evils.”
Pope Pius XII (Summi Pontificatus)………….”The beginning of all the troubles which are driving this age of ours by a headlong course into spiritual bankruptcy and impotence for virtue, ‘is the impious attempt to dethrone Christ’. The Holy Gospel narrates that when Jesus was crucified ‘there was darkness over the whole earth’ (Matt. 27:45), a terrifying symbol of what happened and what still happens spiritually whenever incredulity, blind and proud, has succeeded in excluding Christ from modern life, especially from public life, and has undermined faith in GOD as well as faith in CHRIST”.
Pope Leo XII (Quo Graviora)……….”Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and his successors have been given the power and care of feeding and ruling the flock of Christ, our God and Savior. HENCE, the more grave the evils threatening the flock, the greater the solicitude the Roman pontiffs ought to employ in preventing them.”
Pope Pius XI, (Quo Graviora)………….’this duty of charity cannot in any way be understood to condone silence or non-resistance in the face of error, and more so in the face of evil, and he imposes a sentence of harsh judgment on consecrated ministers in the event they fail in this regard. The first gift of love made by the priest to those around, the one that is most obviously required……….is the one that consists in serving ‘the truth, the whole truth’, in uncovering and refuting error in any form no matter how it is masked or disguised. A failure on this pointwould only be a ‘betrayal of God and of your holy vocations, but also a ‘crime’ against the true interest of your people and your country…..The Church ‘cannot’ wait until altars have been overthrown and sacrilegious hands have destroyed the temples before beginning to cry out and protest.”
Pope Leo I (quoted in the statement, ‘Why You and I Must Speak Out Now!’……… http://www.TheFatimaCrusader.com ………….”Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men when we can do it………..is no less a sin than to encourage them.”
Pope Pius XI (Humani Gregeris Unitas)…………”Where, moreover, she (the Church) finds that hatred of the Christian religion has driven misguided souls, whether, of the Jewish people or of other origin, to ally themselves with or actively to promote revolutionary movements that aim to destroy society and to obliterate from the minds of men the knowledge, reverence, and love of God, ‘she must warn her children against such movements, expose the ruses and fallacies of their leaders, and find against them appropriate safeguards.”
Pope Leo XIII (Depuis le jour ‘Libreria Editrice Vaticana…… http://www.Vatican.VA/offices/papal_docs )………..”In the face of the combined efforts of incredulity and heresy to consummate the ruin of Catholic faith, ‘it would be a very real crime for the clergy to remain in a state of hesitancy and inactivity’. In such an outpouring of error (as in our day)………he must not prove faithless to his mission, which is to defend dogma assaulted, morality travestied and justice frequently outraged. It is for him to oppose himself as ‘a barrier’ to the attacks of error and the deceits of heresy; to watch the tact’s of the wicked who war with the faith………to unmask their plots and reveal their concealments; to warn the faithful, strengthen the timid and ‘open the eyes of the blinded’.
Pope Leo XIII (Etsi nos) to the bishops…………”And first endeavor to make your people understand of what ‘value’ the Catholic faith is to them, and how they ought to ‘defend’ it at every cost. But, since the enemies and assailants of the Catholic name employ a thousand devices and a thousand feints to seduce those who are not on their guard………..it is of the utmost importance to ‘unmask’ and to ‘drag into the light of day their secret machinations’, so that Catholics, having their ‘eyes opened’ to the real aimsof these men, may feel their own courage redoubled, and may resolve openly and intrepidly to ‘defend the Church, the Roman pontiff, and their own salvation.”………
Pope Pius XII (Menti Nostrae)…………..too exhorts his holy ministers, saying it is the ‘chief duty’ of the supreme pastorship as pope “to do Our utmost to help make the work of pastors and priests daily more efficacious in ‘encouraging the faithful to avoid evil, to overcome dangers and to acquire perfection. This is all the more necessary in our days when people and nations……..are suffering in the depths of their souls while ‘enemies of Catholicism, becoming BOLDER………are striving with hate and subtle snares to separate men from God and Jesus Christ.”
Pope Saint Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis)………..”Wherefore We may no longer keep silent, lest we should seem to fail in our most sacred duty……….”
Pope Pius VII (Diu Satis)……….”For too long have we been silent. The particular part of our duty which is expressed in the words, ‘strengthen your brethren,’ also urges us to ‘do so’. For at the present turbulent time, as much as ever, ‘Satan’……….has sought after us all in order to sift us as wheat……….Therefore it is our duty to help men and nations who are in distress, and to ‘eliminate all present and threatening evils’………..If ever anything deters, prevents, or delays any one of us from performing this task……….’what a disgraceful sin he will commit!’. Therefore, omit no watchfulness, diligence, care and effort, in order to ‘guard the deposit’ of Christ’s teaching whose destruction has been planned, as you know, by a great conspiracy.”
Popes Take Decisive Action Against Jewish Menace……….dozens of papal documents have been issued warning the Church and world of the great menace of the secret societies, at least 115 of which directly pertain to the dangers of International Jewry and 50 more addressing the grave evil of esoteric Freemasonry…………
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Saint Gregory the Great writing in “Epistulae” around 591, said that Jews were not to be granted full liberty due to their frequent use of such liberties to undermine the faith;
Pope Honorius I, at the Council of Toledo in 638, said that the Church must take action against Jewish perfidy;
Pope Leo VII, gave permission for the expulsion of Jews from part of Germany, because of their constant and relentless attacks against Catholics;
Pope Gregory IX found it necessary to order the confiscation of all copies of the ‘Talmud’ due to its sacrilegious and subversive contents;
Saint Albert the Great was among several theologians to examine the ‘Talmud’ more thoroughly, resulting in the order ……….to burn the book in public…….
Pope Innocent IV, again ordered the “Talmud’ to be burned; In the Papal Bull ‘Sicut tua nobis’ 1254, the Pope authorized the expulsion of Jews from Vienna;
Pope Clement IV, condemned the “Talmud’ in the ‘Bull Damnabili perfidia”;
Pope Honoraius IV reiterated his predecessors’ condemnation of the ‘Talmud’ in the 1285 ‘Bull Nimis in partibus anglicanis’;
Pope John XXII repeated the same condemnations in 1320 in the ‘Bull Dudumfelicis recordationis’;
Pope Eugene IV insisted in the ‘Bull Dudum ad nostrum’ on Jewish segregation given their unrepentant blasphemies and secret plots against the Church’;
Nicholas V, Calixtus III and Paul II…….’reenacted or renewed the decisions of their predecessors;
Pope Sixtus IV, put forth in the ‘Bull Intenta simper salutis’ of 1484 that Jews and Muslims residing in Spanish territories were to have the least possible social intercourse with Christians in order to protect the faithful from the poisons of these purveyors of heresy and immorality;
Pope Leo X took severe actions against Jews in his Brief of 1518, addressed to the Nuncio of Venice;
Pope Julius III granted permission for the burning of the ‘Talmud’ by the Inquisition;
Pope Paul IV took decisive actions against the Jews in the ‘Bull Cum mimis absurdum’ in order ‘to defend the integrity of the Faith’, and ‘prevent Jews from dominating Catholics;
Pope Saint Pius V in 1569 enacted the ‘Bull Hebraeorum gens’ forcefully repudiating the Jewish practice of ususry, theft, prostitution, divinization, sorcery and witchcraft. ‘By a decree of February 26, 1569, St. Pius V expelled the Jews from the Pontifical States, since, in addition to the mentioned crimes, the Jews spied for the Muslims and supported Islamic plans of conquest that endangered all Chstendom. In this Brief, he said: “We know that this most perverse people have always been the cause and seed-bag of almost all the heresies”
Pope Gregory XIII in his Brief of 1581 (Antiqui Judaeorum), issued a grave warning against the ‘false conversion of Jews’ as cover for undermining the Church from with; ………..this darkness is upon the Holy Church……….today, the fruits are undeniable………my emphasis……..MISERERE!
Pope Clement VIII in the 1593 Bull ‘Cum Hebraeorum’ denounced the ‘Talmud’ once again, and strongly urged preachers to stress Jewish conversions;
Pope Urban VIII in 1628 once more anathematized the Jewish crime of usury, this time in Portugal;
Pope Benedict XIV in 1751 reaffirmed the Papal condemnations of the ‘Talmud’;
Pope Pius VI in 1775 issued two edicts repeating and reinforcing his immediate predecessor’s directives concerning the criminal activities of revolutionary Jews;
In a speech given in 1871, upon having lost control of the Papal States, Bl. Pius IX strongly ‘condemned’ anticlerical Jews of Rome for their part in the revolutions responsible for this loss of temporal power;
Pope Leo XIII publicly condemned Jews, Freemasons and anarchists as the ‘chief enemies of the Church’. He reiterated the fact of seditious Jewry’s antichristian continuity down the centuries and sounded many a call to arms against some of Judaism’s deadliest fronts (Freemasonry, socialism, communism, democracy, predator capitalism, Americanism, the rights of man’………….NOT GOD!…….. my emphasis.
The year of 1900 saw Saint Pius X express high praise for the book, “Americanism and the Anti-Christian Conspiracy, by the eminent Msgr. Henri Delassus, which book spared no effort in ripping the mask off the Judaic-Masonic-Americanist plot against the Catholic Church and Christian civilization. During his pontificate St. Pius X made it vividly clear to Zionist leaders that…………Jews had no moral right to the Holy Land and that, as pope, he could not in any way sanction their invasion and occupation of Palestine;
Pope Pius XI in his unfinished, unpublished encyclical of 1938 on Judaism, ‘Humani Generis Unitas’, while rightly denouncing anti-Semitism, also denounced the intrigues and schemes of the Jews;
Pope Pius XII in his expressed fear that the reports of the Allied exterminationist were ‘exaggerated’ ‘for purposes of PROPAGANDA’.
(This came from Harold Tittmann, assistant to Myron Taylor, Pres. Roosevelt’s personal representative at the Vatican, as quoted by Robert Faurisson in “Pope Pius XII’ Revisionism’, 2006. Seven sources were used to compile this list of papal actions against antichristian Judaism: Msgr. Jouin’s ‘The Papacy and Freemasonry”, Charles Coulumbe’s “A History of the Popes”, Maurice Pinay’s “The Plot Against the Church”, E. Michael Jones “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Fr. Denis Fahey’s “The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation” and “A Brief Sketch of my life work”, Fr. Leonard Feeney’s newsletter “The Point”, and Atila Sinka Guimaraes’ online articled “Is the Catholic Church Becoming a Branch of the Synagogue?”
The website http://www.TodaysCatholicNews.com names the 114 papal documents relating to the Jewish threat. The 115th document of Pius XI’s unfinished encyclical, ‘Humani Generis Unitas’ of 1938, mentioned above. Although the unpublished work does not carry the same weight as a pope’s published writing, it still carries the authoritative distinction of being a papal document.
Fr. Fahey ………..”As I point out in my book, “The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society”, two currents run through these official (papal) declarations. One the one hand, in a certain number of documents the sovereign pontiffs strive to protect the Jews from physical violence and to secure respect of their family life and their worship. On the other hand, they aim unceasingly in the greater number of documents at protecting the supernatural life of Catholics from the contamination of Jewish naturalism and try to prevent the Jews from gaining control over Catholics……….
Dear Father Fahey, the infiltration is at it’s peak, as we speak………those who were bound by God to protect the Holy Faith…….gave green light to the Jews to be Bold and conquer the ‘weak, the blind, the ignorant, the Judas’s……….Miserere!………my emphasis……….
The combat against naturalism in general and, therefore implicitly against the organized naturalism of the Jewish nation is urged upon us, for example, by Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi, 1900) and Pius XI (Quas Primas, 1925); (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931). We are warned against Jewish naturalism explicitly in a whole series of papal documents quoted by Pope Benedict XI, the learned pontiff and a great canonist:
“As for us in this matter, as in all others, We follow the line of conduct adopted by Our Venerable Predecessors, the Roman Pontiffs. Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) forbade Christians, under sever penalties, to enter the service of Jews for any lengthy period or to become domestic servants in their households. “The ought not, to serve the Jews for pay in the permanent way.”
The same pontiff explains the reason for this prohibition as follows:
“Our way of life and those of the Jews are utterly different, and the Jews will easily pervert the souls of the simple folk to their superstition and unbelief, if such folk are living in continual and intimate converse with them.”
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216), after having mentioned that the Jews were being admitted by Christians into their cities warned Christians that the mode and condition of admission should be such as to prevent the Jews from ‘returning evil for good’; “When they are thus admitted out of pity into familiar intercourse with Christians, they repay their hosts, as the proverb says, ‘like the rat hidden in the sack, or the snake in the bosom’………
In like manner, in another decrial, ‘Cun Sit Nimis’, he forbids public positions to be bestowed on the Jews: “WE forbid the giving of public appointments to Jews, because they profit by the opportunities thus afforded them to show themselves bitterly hostile to Christians.”
Pope Gregory XIII warned Catholics in 1581 that ‘the Jewish attitude towards OUR LORD had not changed: “The sovereign pontiffs, ever anxious for the conversion of the Jews, have received them kindly, have graciously allowed them to dwell amongst their own subjects and have always striven with pious zeal……..to draw them to the LIGHT of TRUTH. The Jews, however, in no way softened by these benefits, and with their ancient anti-Christian attitude unchanged, do not cease, in their synagogues and everywhere…………to rage against Our Lord Jesus Christ now gloriously reigning in heaven. Moved by an intense hatred of the members of Christ, they continue to plan horrible crimes against the Christian religion with daily increasing audacity………”
Pope Saint Pius V expelled the Jews from the whole territory of the papal states except Rome and Ancona. In the letter “Hebraeorum Gens’ he explains why he did so: “Their ‘wickedness’ which has been developed by every evil art, has now reached such a point that, in view of our common safety, WE feel it expedient to check the spread of such a ‘disease’ by applying speedy remedy…….WE have clear and definite proof how ‘this perverse race’ hates the name of Christ, how ‘hostile’ they are to all who bear His name and ‘by what tricks and frauds they plot against the lives of Christians……..!’
Finally, in the encyclical letter “Studiorum Ducem’, Pope Pius XI says that Saint Thomas Aquinas……..warns……that ‘from the beginning of the primitive Church the Jews persecuted the Christians, as is evident from the Acts of the Apostles…….. and they would do the same even now if they could……’
Saint Paul to the Galatians……….Stand fast, and do not be caught again under the yoke of slavery!
Pope Pius XI’s, exhortation to the episcopacy and clergy………”See to it, Venerable Brethren, that the faithful do not allow themselves to be deceived…………’Divini Redemptoris’.
“In 1972, we had written publicly to Paul VI stating our view that at present it is as though the Church Militant was a country occupied by a foreign power. Since that time the Church has not ceased to give the impression that it is an occupied Church. But occupied by whom? We are driven today to suspect that it is by Judaism………..Jean Madiran, “The Jewish Question in the Church,” featured in the March 1986 issue of ‘Itinerares’, as supplement to Hamish Fracer’s ‘Approaches’.
“There is no greater enemy of the Immaculata and her Knighthood than today’s Ecumenism which every Knight must not only fight against, but also neutralize through diametrically opposed action and ultimately destroy” (Saint Maksymilian Maria Kolbe)…
….please forgive me, but there was no other way but to copy all this information, which is very clear how the Pillars of the Holy Faith have warned us in every century…..against the enemy of Jesus Christ and His Church…….
If it is ‘anti-semitic’ that trumps everything, even Jesus, for these people.
Given that the District Superior responded with clarifications – it was the SSPX.
@Tradical – Are you sure? The Resistance is strongest in the South America. I am told that Bishop Fellay has had a difficult time FFI’ing the Resistance down there.
Yes, this proud worldling Professor (of heresy)….is right on the ‘target’……. WE ARE FOOLS and FANATICS for JESUS CHRIST!
Nostra Aetate fails to make a crucial distinction between Jews as individuals and the Jewish religion. True, Jews are not under a curse that precludes their salvation, since our sacred history is rife with Jewish converts who left the religion of the synagogue and embraced the Catholic Church.
What is today called the Jewish religion, however, is not of God, since it is based on a rejection of the Messiah. Our Lord warned the Jews of His day, “Therefore I say to you, that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people yielding its fruits.” (Matt: 21: 43)
Likewise St. Paul writes that Christ’s New Covenant “has made obsolete the former one.” (Heb. 8:13)
Truth will only be thought of as a ‘hate crime’ by those who ‘hate the truth’…………‘His Truth’.
“Sict Judaeis Non” ‘and thus to the Jews’…….The term originated in a papal bull issued in 1120 by Pope Calixtus II and which became the Church’s official position, or its ‘Constitution for the Jews,’ and was many times reaffirmed by the Supreme Pontiffs through the ages. “History of Toleration,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
“So long as Jews remain Jews, a Jewish problem exists and will continue to exist. The question varies in intensity and degree from country to country. It is especially difficult in our country (Poland), and ought to be the object of serious consideration. I shall touch briefly here on its moral aspects in connection with the situation today (1936).
It is a fact that Jews are waging war against the Catholic Church, that they are steeped in freethinking and constitute the vanguard of atheism, the Bolshevik movement, and revolutionary activity. It is a fact that Jews have a corruptive influence on morals, and that their publishing house are spreading pornography. It is true that Jews are perpetuating fraud, practicing usury, and dealing in prostitution. It is true that, from a religious and ethical point of view, Jewish youth are having a negative influence on the Catholic youth in our schools. But let us be fair. Not all Jews are this way. There are very many Jews who are believers, honest, just , kind, and philanthropic. There is a healthy, edifying sense of family in very many Jewish homes. We know Jews who are ethically outstanding, noble and upright.
I warn against that moral stance, imported from abroad, that is basically and ruthlessly anti-Jewish. It is contrary to Catholic ethics. One may love one’s own nation more, but one may not hate anyone. Not even Jews. It is good to prefer your own kind when shopping, to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the marketplace, but it is forbidden to demolish Jewish store, damage their merchandise, break windows, or throw things at their homes. One should stay away from the harmful moral influence of Jews, keep away from the anti-Christian culture, and especially boycott the Jewish press and demoralizing Jewish publications. But it is forbidden to assault, beat up, maim, or slander Jews. One should honor Jews as human beings and neighbors, even thou we do not honor the indescribable tragedy of that nation, which is the guardian of the idea of the Messiah and from which was born the Savior. When Divine Mercy enlightens a Jew to sincerely accept his and our Messiah, let us greet him into our Christian ranks with joy.”………..Augustine Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Pastoral Letter, 1936, quoted by E. Michael Jones, “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History” 2008.
…….the repeated commands of the supreme pontiffs to all bishops, priest and lay people to protect the faith, alert the faithful, expose the enemy and forge a strong resistance against them………..
Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus), gives fair warning to the gentile and Jew alike……….”The greatest of all misfortunes is to fall away from the world’s Redeemer and to abandon Christian faith and practice………He gave Himself a redemption for all. In Christ all shall be made alive. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. Hence, by God’s eternal decree the salvation of all men, both individually and collectively, depends on JESUS CHRIST. Those who abandon Him become guilty by the very fact of their own ruin; while at the same time they do all that in them lies to bring about a violent reaction of mankind in the direction of that ‘mass of evils and miseries’ from which the Redeemer in His mercy had freed them.”
Pope Pius IX (Qui Pluribus)………”Because they have separated themselves miserably from God and Jesus Christ, men have fallen from their former happiness into an abyss of evils.”
Pope Pius XII (Summi Pontificatus)………….”The beginning of all the troubles which are driving this age of ours by a headlong course into spiritual bankruptcy and impotence for virtue, ‘is the impious attempt to dethrone Christ’. The Holy Gospel narrates that when Jesus was crucified ‘there was darkness over the whole earth’ (Matt. 27:45), a terrifying symbol of what happened and what still happens spiritually whenever incredulity, blind and proud, has succeeded in excluding Christ from modern life, especially from public life, and has undermined faith in GOD as well as faith in CHRIST”.
Pope Leo XII (Quo Graviora)……….”Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and his successors have been given the power and care of feeding and ruling the flock of Christ, our God and Savior. HENCE, the more grave the evils threatening the flock, the greater the solicitude the Roman pontiffs ought to employ in preventing them.”
Pope Pius XI, (Quo Graviora)………….’this duty of charity cannot in any way be understood to condone silence or non-resistance in the face of error, and more so in the face of evil, and he imposes a sentence of harsh judgment on consecrated ministers in the event they fail in this regard. The first gift of love made by the priest to those around, the one that is most obviously required……….is the one that consists in serving ‘the truth, the whole truth’, in uncovering and refuting error in any form no matter how it is masked or disguised. A failure on this pointwould only be a ‘betrayal of God and of your holy vocations, but also a ‘crime’ against the true interest of your people and your country…..The Church ‘cannot’ wait until altars have been overthrown and sacrilegious hands have destroyed the temples before beginning to cry out and protest.”
Pope Leo I (quoted in the statement, ‘Why You and I Must Speak Out Now!’……… http://www.TheFatimaCrusader.com ………….”Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men when we can do it………..is no less a sin than to encourage them.”
Pope Pius XI (Humani Gregeris Unitas)…………”Where, moreover, she (the Church) finds that hatred of the Christian religion has driven misguided souls, whether, of the Jewish people or of other origin, to ally themselves with or actively to promote revolutionary movements that aim to destroy society and to obliterate from the minds of men the knowledge, reverence, and love of God, ‘she must warn her children against such movements, expose the ruses and fallacies of their leaders, and find against them appropriate safeguards.”
Pope Leo XIII (Depuis le jour ‘Libreria Editrice Vaticana…… http://www.Vatican.VA/offices/papal_docs )………..”In the face of the combined efforts of incredulity and heresy to consummate the ruin of Catholic faith, ‘it would be a very real crime for the clergy to remain in a state of hesitancy and inactivity’. In such an outpouring of error (as in our day)………he must not prove faithless to his mission, which is to defend dogma assaulted, morality travestied and justice frequently outraged. It is for him to oppose himself as ‘a barrier’ to the attacks of error and the deceits of heresy; to watch the tact’s of the wicked who war with the faith………to unmask their plots and reveal their concealments; to warn the faithful, strengthen the timid and ‘open the eyes of the blinded’.
Pope Leo XIII (Etsi nos) to the bishops…………”And first endeavor to make your people understand of what ‘value’ the Catholic faith is to them, and how they ought to ‘defend’ it at every cost. But, since the enemies and assailants of the Catholic name employ a thousand devices and a thousand feints to seduce those who are not on their guard………..it is of the utmost importance to ‘unmask’ and to ‘drag into the light of day their secret machinations’, so that Catholics, having their ‘eyes opened’ to the real aimsof these men, may feel their own courage redoubled, and may resolve openly and intrepidly to ‘defend the Church, the Roman pontiff, and their own salvation.”………
Pope Pius XII (Menti Nostrae)…………..too exhorts his holy ministers, saying it is the ‘chief duty’ of the supreme pastorship as pope “to do Our utmost to help make the work of pastors and priests daily more efficacious in ‘encouraging the faithful to avoid evil, to overcome dangers and to acquire perfection. This is all the more necessary in our days when people and nations……..are suffering in the depths of their souls while ‘enemies of Catholicism, becoming BOLDER………are striving with hate and subtle snares to separate men from God and Jesus Christ.”
Pope Saint Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis)………..”Wherefore We may no longer keep silent, lest we should seem to fail in our most sacred duty……….”
Pope Pius VII (Diu Satis)……….”For too long have we been silent. The particular part of our duty which is expressed in the words, ‘strengthen your brethren,’ also urges us to ‘do so’. For at the present turbulent time, as much as ever, ‘Satan’……….has sought after us all in order to sift us as wheat……….Therefore it is our duty to help men and nations who are in distress, and to ‘eliminate all present and threatening evils’………..If ever anything deters, prevents, or delays any one of us from performing this task……….’what a disgraceful sin he will commit!’. Therefore, omit no watchfulness, diligence, care and effort, in order to ‘guard the deposit’ of Christ’s teaching whose destruction has been planned, as you know, by a great conspiracy.”
. WE ARE FOOLS and FANATICS for JESUS CHRIST!
Nostra Aetate fails to make a crucial distinction between Jews as individuals and the Jewish religion. True, Jews are not under a curse that precludes their salvation, since our sacred history is rife with Jewish converts who left the religion of the synagogue and embraced the Catholic Church.
What is today called the Jewish religion, however, is not of God, since it is based on a rejection of the Messiah. Our Lord warned the Jews of His day, “Therefore I say to you, that the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people yielding its fruits.” (Matt: 21: 43)
Likewise St. Paul writes that Christ’s New Covenant “has made obsolete the former one.” (Heb. 8:13)
Truth will only be thought of as a ‘hate crime’ by those who ‘hate the truth’…………‘His Truth’.
“Sict Judaeis Non” ‘and thus to the Jews’…….The term originated in a papal bull issued in 1120 by Pope Calixtus II and which became the Church’s official position, or its ‘Constitution for the Jews,’ and was many times reaffirmed by the Supreme Pontiffs through the ages. “History of Toleration,” Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
“So long as Jews remain Jews, a Jewish problem exists and will continue to exist. The question varies in intensity and degree from country to country. It is especially difficult in our country (Poland), and ought to be the object of serious consideration. I shall touch briefly here on its moral aspects in connection with the situation today (1936).
It is a fact that Jews are waging war against the Catholic Church, that they are steeped in freethinking and constitute the vanguard of atheism, the Bolshevik movement, and revolutionary activity. It is a fact that Jews have a corruptive influence on morals, and that their publishing house are spreading pornography. It is true that Jews are perpetuating fraud, practicing usury, and dealing in prostitution. It is true that, from a religious and ethical point of view, Jewish youth are having a negative influence on the Catholic youth in our schools. But let us be fair. Not all Jews are this way. There are very many Jews who are believers, honest, just , kind, and philanthropic. There is a healthy, edifying sense of family in very many Jewish homes. We know Jews who are ethically outstanding, noble and upright.
I warn against that moral stance, imported from abroad, that is basically and ruthlessly anti-Jewish. It is contrary to Catholic ethics. One may love one’s own nation more, but one may not hate anyone. Not even Jews. It is good to prefer your own kind when shopping, to avoid Jewish stores and Jewish stalls in the marketplace, but it is forbidden to demolish Jewish store, damage their merchandise, break windows, or throw things at their homes. One should stay away from the harmful moral influence of Jews, keep away from the anti-Christian culture, and especially boycott the Jewish press and demoralizing Jewish publications. But it is forbidden to assault, beat up, maim, or slander Jews. One should honor Jews as human beings and neighbors, even thou we do not honor the indescribable tragedy of that nation, which is the guardian of the idea of the Messiah and from which was born the Savior. When Divine Mercy enlightens a Jew to sincerely accept his and our Messiah, let us greet him into our Christian ranks with joy.”………..Augustine Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, Pastoral Letter, 1936, quoted by E. Michael Jones, “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History” 2008.
…….the repeated commands of the supreme pontiffs to all bishops, priest and lay people to protect the faith, alert the faithful, expose the enemy and forge a strong resistance against them………..
Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus), gives fair warning to the gentile and Jew alike……….”The greatest of all misfortunes is to fall away from the world’s Redeemer and to abandon Christian faith and practice………He gave Himself a redemption for all. In Christ all shall be made alive. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. Hence, by God’s eternal decree the salvation of all men, both individually and collectively, depends on JESUS CHRIST. Those who abandon Him become guilty by the very fact of their own ruin; while at the same time they do all that in them lies to bring about a violent reaction of mankind in the direction of that ‘mass of evils and miseries’ from which the Redeemer in His mercy had freed them.”
Pope Pius IX (Qui Pluribus)………”Because they have separated themselves miserably from God and Jesus Christ, men have fallen from their former happiness into an abyss of evils.”
Pope Pius XII (Summi Pontificatus)………….”The beginning of all the troubles which are driving this age of ours by a headlong course into spiritual bankruptcy and impotence for virtue, ‘is the impious attempt to dethrone Christ’. The Holy Gospel narrates that when Jesus was crucified ‘there was darkness over the whole earth’ (Matt. 27:45), a terrifying symbol of what happened and what still happens spiritually whenever incredulity, blind and proud, has succeeded in excluding Christ from modern life, especially from public life, and has undermined faith in GOD as well as faith in CHRIST”.
Pope Leo XII (Quo Graviora)……….”Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and his successors have been given the power and care of feeding and ruling the flock of Christ, our God and Savior. HENCE, the more grave the evils threatening the flock, the greater the solicitude the Roman pontiffs ought to employ in preventing them.”
Pope Pius XI, (Quo Graviora)………….’this duty of charity cannot in any way be understood to condone silence or non-resistance in the face of error, and more so in the face of evil, and he imposes a sentence of harsh judgment on consecrated ministers in the event they fail in this regard. The first gift of love made by the priest to those around, the one that is most obviously required……….is the one that consists in serving ‘the truth, the whole truth’, in uncovering and refuting error in any form no matter how it is masked or disguised. A failure on this pointwould only be a ‘betrayal of God and of your holy vocations, but also a ‘crime’ against the true interest of your people and your country…..The Church ‘cannot’ wait until altars have been overthrown and sacrilegious hands have destroyed the temples before beginning to cry out and protest.”
Pope Leo I (quoted in the statement, ‘Why You and I Must Speak Out Now!’……… http://www.TheFatimaCrusader.com ………….”Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men when we can do it………..is no less a sin than to encourage them.”
Pope Pius XI (Humani Gregeris Unitas)…………”Where, moreover, she (the Church) finds that hatred of the Christian religion has driven misguided souls, whether, of the Jewish people or of other origin, to ally themselves with or actively to promote revolutionary movements that aim to destroy society and to obliterate from the minds of men the knowledge, reverence, and love of God, ‘she must warn her children against such movements, expose the ruses and fallacies of their leaders, and find against them appropriate safeguards.”
Pope Leo XIII (Depuis le jour ‘Libreria Editrice Vaticana…… http://www.Vatican.VA/offices/papal_docs )………..”In the face of the combined efforts of incredulity and heresy to consummate the ruin of Catholic faith, ‘it would be a very real crime for the clergy to remain in a state of hesitancy and inactivity’. In such an outpouring of error (as in our day)………he must not prove faithless to his mission, which is to defend dogma assaulted, morality travestied and justice frequently outraged. It is for him to oppose himself as ‘a barrier’ to the attacks of error and the deceits of heresy; to watch the tact’s of the wicked who war with the faith………to unmask their plots and reveal their concealments; to warn the faithful, strengthen the timid and ‘open the eyes of the blinded’.
Pope Leo XIII (Etsi nos) to the bishops…………”And first endeavor to make your people understand of what ‘value’ the Catholic faith is to them, and how they ought to ‘defend’ it at every cost. But, since the enemies and assailants of the Catholic name employ a thousand devices and a thousand feints to seduce those who are not on their guard………..it is of the utmost importance to ‘unmask’ and to ‘drag into the light of day their secret machinations’, so that Catholics, having their ‘eyes opened’ to the real aimsof these men, may feel their own courage redoubled, and may resolve openly and intrepidly to ‘defend the Church, the Roman pontiff, and their own salvation.”………
Pope Pius XII (Menti Nostrae)…………..too exhorts his holy ministers, saying it is the ‘chief duty’ of the supreme pastorship as pope “to do Our utmost to help make the work of pastors and priests daily more efficacious in ‘encouraging the faithful to avoid evil, to overcome dangers and to acquire perfection. This is all the more necessary in our days when people and nations……..are suffering in the depths of their souls while ‘enemies of Catholicism, becoming BOLDER………are striving with hate and subtle snares to separate men from God and Jesus Christ.”
Pope Saint Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis)………..”Wherefore We may no longer keep silent, lest we should seem to fail in our most sacred duty……….”
…….the repeated commands of the supreme pontiffs to all bishops, priest and lay people to protect the faith, alert the faithful, expose the enemy and forge a strong resistance against them………..
Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus), gives fair warning to the gentile and Jew alike……….”The greatest of all misfortunes is to fall away from the world’s Redeemer and to abandon Christian faith and practice………He gave Himself a redemption for all. In Christ all shall be made alive. And of His kingdom there shall be no end. Hence, by God’s eternal decree the salvation of all men, both individually and collectively, depends on JESUS CHRIST. Those who abandon Him become guilty by the very fact of their own ruin; while at the same time they do all that in them lies to bring about a violent reaction of mankind in the direction of that ‘mass of evils and miseries’ from which the Redeemer in His mercy had freed them.”
Pope Pius IX (Qui Pluribus)………”Because they have separated themselves miserably from God and Jesus Christ, men have fallen from their former happiness into an abyss of evils.”
Pope Pius XII (Summi Pontificatus)………….”The beginning of all the troubles which are driving this age of ours by a headlong course into spiritual bankruptcy and impotence for virtue, ‘is the impious attempt to dethrone Christ’. The Holy Gospel narrates that when Jesus was crucified ‘there was darkness over the whole earth’ (Matt. 27:45), a terrifying symbol of what happened and what still happens spiritually whenever incredulity, blind and proud, has succeeded in excluding Christ from modern life, especially from public life, and has undermined faith in GOD as well as faith in CHRIST”.
Pope Leo XII (Quo Graviora)……….”Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and his successors have been given the power and care of feeding and ruling the flock of Christ, our God and Savior. HENCE, the more grave the evils threatening the flock, the greater the solicitude the Roman pontiffs ought to employ in preventing them.”
Pope Pius XI, (Quo Graviora)………….’this duty of charity cannot in any way be understood to condone silence or non-resistance in the face of error, and more so in the face of evil, and he imposes a sentence of harsh judgment on consecrated ministers in the event they fail in this regard. The first gift of love made by the priest to those around, the one that is most obviously required……….is the one that consists in serving ‘the truth, the whole truth’, in uncovering and refuting error in any form no matter how it is masked or disguised. A failure on this pointwould only be a ‘betrayal of God and of your holy vocations, but also a ‘crime’ against the true interest of your people and your country…..The Church ‘cannot’ wait until altars have been overthrown and sacrilegious hands have destroyed the temples before beginning to cry out and protest.”
Pope Leo I (quoted in the statement, ‘Why You and I Must Speak Out Now!’……… http://www.TheFatimaCrusader.com ………….”Not to oppose error is to approve it, and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men when we can do it………..is no less a sin than to encourage them.”
Pope Pius XI (Humani Gregeris Unitas)…………”Where, moreover, she (the Church) finds that hatred of the Christian religion has driven misguided souls, whether, of the Jewish people or of other origin, to ally themselves with or actively to promote revolutionary movements that aim to destroy society and to obliterate from the minds of men the knowledge, reverence, and love of God, ‘she must warn her children against such movements, expose the ruses and fallacies of their leaders, and find against them appropriate safeguards.”
Pope Leo XIII (Depuis le jour ‘Libreria Editrice Vaticana…… http://www.Vatican.VA/offices/papal_docs )………..”In the face of the combined efforts of incredulity and heresy to consummate the ruin of Catholic faith, ‘it would be a very real crime for the clergy to remain in a state of hesitancy and inactivity’. In such an outpouring of error (as in our day)………he must not prove faithless to his mission, which is to defend dogma assaulted, morality travestied and justice frequently outraged. It is for him to oppose himself as ‘a barrier’ to the attacks of error and the deceits of heresy; to watch the tact’s of the wicked who war with the faith………to unmask their plots and reveal their concealments; to warn the faithful, strengthen the timid and ‘open the eyes of the blinded’.
Pope Leo XIII (Etsi nos) to the bishops…………”And first endeavor to make your people understand of what ‘value’ the Catholic faith is to them, and how they ought to ‘defend’ it at every cost. But, since the enemies and assailants of the Catholic name employ a thousand devices and a thousand feints to seduce those who are not on their guard………..it is of the utmost importance to ‘unmask’ and to ‘drag into the light of day their secret machinations’, so that Catholics, having their ‘eyes opened’ to the real aimsof these men, may feel their own courage redoubled, and may resolve openly and intrepidly to ‘defend the Church, the Roman pontiff, and their own salvation.”………
Pope Pius XII (Menti Nostrae)…………..too exhorts his holy ministers, saying it is the ‘chief duty’ of the supreme pastorship as pope “to do Our utmost to help make the work of pastors and priests daily more efficacious in ‘encouraging the faithful to avoid evil, to overcome dangers and to acquire perfection. This is all the more necessary in our days when people and nations……..are suffering in the depths of their souls while ‘enemies of Catholicism, becoming BOLDER………are striving with hate and subtle snares to separate men from God and Jesus Christ.”
Pope Saint Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis)………..”Wherefore We may no longer keep silent, lest we should seem to fail in our most sacred duty……….”
Pope Pius VII (Diu Satis)……….”For too long have we been silent. The particular part of our duty which is expressed in the words, ‘strengthen your brethren,’ also urges us to ‘do so’. For at the present turbulent time, as much as ever, ‘Satan’……….has sought after us all in order to sift us as wheat……….Therefore it is our duty to help men and nations who are in distress, and to ‘eliminate all present and threatening evils’………..If ever anything deters, prevents, or delays any one of us from performing this task……….’what a disgraceful sin he will commit!’. Therefore, omit no watchfulness, diligence, care and effort, in order to ‘guard the deposit’ of Christ’s teaching whose destruction has been planned, as you know, by a great conspiracy.”
Popes Take Decisive Action Against Jewish Menace……….dozens of papal documents have been issued warning the Church and world of the great menace of the secret societies, at least 115 of which directly pertain to the dangers of International Jewry and 50 more addressing the grave evil of esoteric Freemasonry…………
“Saint Gregory the Great writing in “Epistulae” around 591, said that Jews were not to be granted full liberty due to their frequent use of such liberties to undermine the faith;
Pope Honorius I, at the Council of Toledo in 638, said that the Church must take action against Jewish perfidy;
Pope Leo VII, gave permission for the expulsion of Jews from part of Germany, because of their constant and relentless attacks against Catholics;
Pope Gregory IX found it necessary to order the confiscation of all copies of the ‘Talmud’ due to its sacrilegious and subversive contents;
Saint Albert the Great was among several theologians to examine the ‘Talmud’ more thoroughly, resulting in the order ……….to burn the book in public…….
Pope Innocent IV, again ordered the “Talmud’ to be burned; In the Papal Bull ‘Sicut tua nobis’ 1254, the Pope authorized the expulsion of Jews from Vienna;
Pope Clement IV, condemned the “Talmud’ in the ‘Bull Damnabili perfidia”;
Pope Honoraius IV reiterated his predecessors’ condemnation of the ‘Talmud’ in the 1285 ‘Bull Nimis in partibus anglicanis’;
Pope John XXII repeated the same condemnations in 1320 in the ‘Bull Dudumfelicis recordationis’;
Pope Eugene IV insisted in the ‘Bull Dudum ad nostrum’ on Jewish segregation given their unrepentant blasphemies and secret plots against the Church’;
Nicholas V, Calixtus III and Paul II…….’reenacted or renewed the decisions of their predecessors;
Pope Sixtus IV, put forth in the ‘Bull Intenta simper salutis’ of 1484 that Jews and Muslims residing in Spanish territories were to have the least possible social intercourse with Christians in order to protect the faithful from the poisons of these purveyors of heresy and immorality;
Pope Leo X took severe actions against Jews in his Brief of 1518, addressed to the Nuncio of Venice;
Pope Julius III granted permission for the burning of the ‘Talmud’ by the Inquisition;
Pope Paul IV took decisive actions against the Jews in the ‘Bull Cum mimis absurdum’ in order ‘to defend the integrity of the Faith’, and ‘prevent Jews from dominating Catholics;
Pope Saint Pius V in 1569 enacted the ‘Bull Hebraeorum gens’ forcefully repudiating the Jewish practice of ususry, theft, prostitution, divinization, sorcery and witchcraft. ‘By a decree of February 26, 1569, St. Pius V expelled the Jews from the Pontifical States, since, in addition to the mentioned crimes, the Jews spied for the Muslims and supported Islamic plans of conquest that endangered all Chstendom. In this Brief, he said: “We know that this most perverse people have always been the cause and seed-bag of almost all the heresies”
Pope Gregory XIII in his Brief of 1581 (Antiqui Judaeorum), issued a grave warning against the ‘false conversion of Jews’ as cover for undermining the Church from with; ………..this darkness is upon the Holy Church……….today, the fruits are undeniable………my emphasis……..MISERERE!
Pope Clement VIII in the 1593 Bull ‘Cum Hebraeorum’ denounced the ‘Talmud’ once again, and strongly urged preachers to stress Jewish conversions;
Pope Urban VIII in 1628 once more anathematized the Jewish crime of usury, this time in Portugal;
Pope Benedict XIV in 1751 reaffirmed the Papal condemnations of the ‘Talmud’;
Pope Pius VI in 1775 issued two edicts repeating and reinforcing his immediate predecessor’s directives concerning the criminal activities of revolutionary Jews;
In a speech given in 1871, upon having lost control of the Papal States, Bl. Pius IX strongly ‘condemned’ anticlerical Jews of Rome for their part in the revolutions responsible for this loss of temporal power;
Pope Leo XIII publicly condemned Jews, Freemasons and anarchists as the ‘chief enemies of the Church’. He reiterated the fact of seditious Jewry’s antichristian continuity down the centuries and sounded many a call to arms against some of Judaism’s deadliest fronts (Freemasonry, socialism, communism, democracy, predator capitalism, Americanism, the rights of man’………
The year of 1900 saw Saint Pius X express high praise for the book, “Americanism and the Anti-Christian Conspiracy, by the eminent Msgr. Henri Delassus, which book spared no effort in ripping the mask off the Judaic-Masonic-Americanist plot against the Catholic Church and Christian civilization. During his pontificate St. Pius X made it vividly clear to Zionist leaders that…………Jews had no moral right to the Holy Land and that, as pope, he could not in any way sanction their invasion and occupation of Palestine;
Pope Pius XI in his unfinished, unpublished encyclical of 1938 on Judaism, ‘Humani Generis Unitas’, while rightly denouncing anti-Semitism, also denounced the intrigues and schemes of the Jews;
Pope Pius XII in his expressed fear that the reports of the Allied exterminationist were ‘exaggerated’ ‘for purposes of PROPAGANDA’.
(This came from Harold Tittmann, assistant to Myron Taylor, Pres. Roosevelt’s personal representative at the Vatican, as quoted by Robert Faurisson in “Pope Pius XII’ Revisionism’, 2006. Seven sources were used to compile this list of papal actions against antichristian Judaism: Msgr. Jouin’s ‘The Papacy and Freemasonry”, Charles Coulumbe’s “A History of the Popes”, Maurice Pinay’s “The Plot Against the Church”, E. Michael Jones “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Fr. Denis Fahey’s “The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation” and “A Brief Sketch of my life work”, Fr. Leonard Feeney’s newsletter “The Point”, and Atila Sinka Guimaraes’ online articled “Is the Catholic Church Becoming a Branch of the Synagogue?”
The website http://www.TodaysCatholicNews.com names the 114 papal documents relating to the Jewish threat. The 115th document of Pius XI’s unfinished encyclical, ‘Humani Generis Unitas’ of 1938, mentioned above. Although the unpublished work does not carry the same weight as a pope’s published writing, it still carries the authoritative distinction of being a papal document.
Fr. Fahey ………..”As I point out in my book, “The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society”, two currents run through these official (papal) declarations. One the one hand, in a certain number of documents the sovereign pontiffs strive to protect the Jews from physical violence and to secure respect of their family life and their worship. On the other hand, they aim unceasingly in the greater number of documents at protecting the supernatural life of Catholics from the contamination of Jewish naturalism and try to prevent the Jews from gaining control over Catholics……….
The combat against naturalism in general and, therefore implicitly against the organized naturalism of the Jewish nation is urged upon us, for example, by Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi, 1900) and Pius XI (Quas Primas, 1925); (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931). We are warned against Jewish naturalism explicitly in a whole series of papal documents quoted by Pope Benedict XI, the learned pontiff and a great canonist:
“As for us in this matter, as in all others, We follow the line of conduct adopted by Our Venerable Predecessors, the Roman Pontiffs. Pope Alexander III (1159-1181) forbade Christians, under sever penalties, to enter the service of Jews for any lengthy period or to become domestic servants in their households. “The ought not, to serve the Jews for pay in the permanent way.”
The same pontiff explains the reason for this prohibition as follows:
“Our way of life and those of the Jews are utterly different, and the Jews will easily pervert the souls of the simple folk to their superstition and unbelief, if such folk are living in continual and intimate converse with them.”
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216), after having mentioned that the Jews were being admitted by Christians into their cities warned Christians that the mode and condition of admission should be such as to prevent the Jews from ‘returning evil for good’; “When they are thus admitted out of pity into familiar intercourse with Christians, they repay their hosts, as the proverb says, ‘like the rat hidden in the sack, or the snake in the bosom’………
In like manner, in another decrial, ‘Cun Sit Nimis’, he forbids public positions to be bestowed on the Jews: “WE forbid the giving of public appointments to Jews, because they profit by the opportunities thus afforded them to show themselves bitterly hostile to Christians.”
Pope Gregory XIII warned Catholics in 1581 that ‘the Jewish attitude towards OUR LORD had not changed: “The sovereign pontiffs, ever anxious for the conversion of the Jews, have received them kindly, have graciously allowed them to dwell amongst their own subjects and have always striven with pious zeal……..to draw them to the LIGHT of TRUTH. The Jews, however, in no way softened by these benefits, and with their ancient anti-Christian attitude unchanged, do not cease, in their synagogues and everywhere…………to rage against Our Lord Jesus Christ now gloriously reigning in heaven. Moved by an intense hatred of the members of Christ, they continue to plan horrible crimes against the Christian religion with daily increasing audacity………”
Pope Saint Pius V expelled the Jews from the whole territory of the papal states except Rome and Ancona. In the letter “Hebraeorum Gens’ he explains why he did so: “Their ‘wickedness’ which has been developed by every evil art, has now reached such a point that, in view of our common safety, WE feel it expedient to check the spread of such a ‘disease’ by applying speedy remedy…….WE have clear and definite proof how ‘this perverse race’ hates the name of Christ, how ‘hostile’ they are to all who bear His name and ‘by what tricks and frauds they plot against the lives of Christians……..!’
Finally, in the encyclical letter “Studiorum Ducem’, Pope Pius XI says that Saint Thomas Aquinas……..warns……that ‘from the beginning of the primitive Church the Jews persecuted the Christians, as is evident from the Acts of the Apostles…….. and they would do the same even now if they could……’
Saint Paul to the Galatians……….Stand fast, and do not be caught again under the yoke of slavery!
Pope Pius XI’s, exhortation to the episcopacy and clergy………”See to it, Venerable Brethren, that the faithful do not allow themselves to be deceived…………’Divini Redemptoris’.
“In 1972, we had written publicly to Paul VI stating our view that at present it is as though the Church Militant was a country occupied by a foreign power. Since that time the Church has not ceased to give the impression that it is an occupied Church. But occupied by whom? We are driven today to suspect that it is by Judaism………..Jean Madiran, “The Jewish Question in the Church,” featured in the March 1986 issue of ‘Itinerares’, as supplement to Hamish Fracer’s ‘Approaches’.
“There is no greater enemy of the Immaculata and her Knighthood than today’s Ecumenism which every Knight must not only fight against, but also neutralize through diametrically opposed action and ultimately destroy” (Saint Maksymilian Maria Kolbe)…
….please forgive me, but there was no other way but to copy all this information, which is very clear how the Pillars of the Holy Faith have warned us in every century…..against the enemy of Jesus Christ and His Church…….
COMMUNIO IN SACRIS? NO!
LOVE AND RESPECT? YES!
I don’t know. Am a just a weak kneed politically correct guy because attacks on the Jews make me sick to my stomach? I remember growing up in the 70s. The next door neighbor was a German Jewish guy who married a local Irish Catholic. The husband had converted. They asked my parents to stand as God parents. Now it was the 1970s. Priests leaving in droves, nuns leaving, churches being wrecked. I though: how wonderful that this man had accepted Christ and that his kids were to be raised Catholic. We were in a Waspy neighborhood so we would have believers on our street. My German grandmother whom I really loved shocked me when she dismissed the whole thing as a Juden trick. It seemed so primitive and evil, my grandmother’s remark- all the more astounding because she was otherwise so saintly.
Yes, the Old Covenant has been superseded. Yes, salvation is only through Christ. Yes, the Jews It would also be reasonable to say on the basis of Romans 11:25 to say that the Church should not expect the corporate conversion of the Jewish people in an age prior to the end. We know that our religion is the fulfillment of Judaism- the Jews are our closest cousins. Traditional funeral practice and purgatory is the practice of the Jews (see Maccabees I and II); the Jewish meal prayers were the material that Our Lord fulfilled at the Last Supper (viz ed. Bouyer, Eucharist), the daily prayer of the Church and her monastics is the Psalter, the hymnal of Israel; the prophets and Patriarchs are on our sanctoral cycle (at least on the Traditional calendar); our eschatology is the eschatology of messianic Judaism.
I read a comment on Eponymous Flower, which often goes off on these antisemitic snips, that said that Judaism is now demonic. There is no scriptural source for this and there is no dogmatic expression that supports this.
Yes, there is a tension evident evident in the Gospels. Christ was crucified by his own. This says so much about my own sinfulness. The degree to which I am Judas. yes, the Jews collaborated with the Roman authorities in the PreConstantinian world. Yet after Constantine, there was a repeated displacement of the sins of believers onto the Jews. This must be resisted. Indeed, it is absurd to scapegoat the Jews for the current diabolical disorientation in anyway. It is a complete lack of willingness to put responsibility where it belongs- on the Pope and bishops, on the priests and religion, on the fathers and mothers of families. . This is all our own fault- especially the German theologians and the German bishops (e.g. The Rhine Flows in to the Tiber). Does anyone else find it incongruous that Vatican II was a coup by the Germans whose country had just had a go at the most demonic neopagan experiment in human history? It is so unhelpful, I think to the cause.
Also, lets be bigger than the smallish attitude of Messrs George and Weigle.
They are prejudiced against Tradition. They do not know it. I remember I was at a First Things breakfast once about 15 years ago with Fr. Ed Oakes (pray for his soul please as he entered into eternal life two weeks ago). Jody Bottum, then a young star, came over and joined us and then started making fun of Latin Mass Catholics. I was too stunned to respond. Yet, I am so happy that Robert George is at Princeton as he provides a rationale alternative to my son who is an undergraduate there to the virulent neo paganinsm of the Princeton Center for Human Values (e.g. Peter Singer, Stephen Macedo, etc).
But the fact is, the neocons are are inadequately sensitive to the limitations of of neoconservatism. As they see it’s hollowed out spirituality fail to be passed on to the next generation, their children will likely end up as traditionalists. Meanwhile, rejoice about their labors in support of marriage, life, and freedom of religion against the rising totalitarianism of the left.
On the Jewish question, I leave you with Paul’s meanderings. (Douay Rheims version)./
ROMANS CHAPTER 11
1 I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he calleth on God against Israel? 3 Lord, they have slain thy prophets, they have dug down thy altars. And I am left alone: and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the divine answer to him? I have left me seven thousand men that have not bowed their knees to Baal. 5 Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, it is not now by works: otherwise grace is no more grace. 7 What then? That which Israel sought, he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained it. And the rest have been blinded. 8 As it is written: God hath given them the spirit of insensibility; eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, until this present day. 9 And David saith: Let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense unto them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see: and bow down their back always. 11 I say then: Have they so stumbled, that they should fall? God forbid! But by their offence salvation is come to the Gentiles, that they may be emulous of them. 12 Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness of them? 13 For I say to you, Gentiles: As long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry, 14 If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them. 15 For if the loss of them be the reconciliation of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, so is the lump also: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree: 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. 20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. 21 For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee. 22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in. 26 And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins. 28 As concerning the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. 30 For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief: 31 So these also now have not believed, for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all. 33 O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways! 34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? 35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him? 36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.
Mr. Verrecchio – yet another fantastic post exposing the ridiculousness of Neo-Catholic narrative. Thank you, sir. Please continue. I’m cheering for you from the sidelines.
Publius……..I don’t know. Am a just a weak kneed politically correct guy because attacks on the Jews make me sick to my stomach?…..I can feel your pain, because, this is how I feel about our Lord Jesus Christ, when the enemy is still awaiting the coming of the Messiah……Then Who Is Jesus Christ?…..yes, I am sick to my stomach…….especially, when I see how deceived so many Catholicsare, by none other but the enemy WITHIN….. when I see what in every century saints, Popes have warned us against.
I grew up with the Jews in Poland, so I very well understand your emotional, sentimental feelings, after all we are ‘children of God’….NOT SATAN!…..so, we do have compassion for those who are blindly ‘knuckleheads’…..so, as our holy faith teaches us, we ought to pray for THEIR CONVERSION. My grandmother saved a life of a Jewish child doing the WWII, and he survived and spent the rest of his life living in Germany, from what I was told, so WHAT? Any God fearing Catholic mother, would without any hesitation safe a life of a child………without asking, if the child is a heretic, infidel, pagan or a Jew.
Your emotions do not have a ground, you are disputing the teaching and warnings against ‘historical facts’ against the enemy…..since the time of Jesus Christ. On who’s side are you? Pray, do penance for their conversion, this is what every true Catholic is bound to do………
For what did Our Lord say to the Jews who do not accept Him?
You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sin. For if you do not believe that I am He [the Son of God], you will die in your sin. (John 8:23-24)
Contrariwise, the new post-Conciliar program effectively says, “If you do not believe that I am He, you are still faithful to the Covenant in your own way.” This new approach is the polar opposite of the words of Christ Himself.
When Pope Benedict visited the Rome synagogue in 2010 he reiterated the same theme found in his books.
Pope Benedict said:
Christians and Jews share to a great extent a common spiritual patrimony, they pray to the same Lord,[25] they have the same roots, and yet they often remain unknown to each other. It is our duty, in response to God’s call, to strive to keep open the space for dialogue, for reciprocal respect, for growth in friendship, for a common witness in the face of the challenges of our time, which invite us to cooperate for the good of humanity in this world created by God, the Omnipotent and Merciful.[26]
Yet we know that Jews and Christians do not worship the same God. Jews reject the Trinitarian God. They reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Messiah. It is Saint John, the Apostle of Love, who writes: “He who honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father, who hath sent Him.” (John 5:23)
Under John Paul’s pontificate, the post-Conciliar Church’s new attitude toward the Jews was made even more explicit in the 1985 Notes for a Correct Presentation of Jews and Judaism in the preaching and Catechesis of the Catholic Church,” issued by the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. This Vatican document was approved by John Paul II who “ratified it as being in line with own thinking…”[14]
The Vatican text reads:
Attentive to the same God who has spoken, hanging on the same word, we have to witness to one same memory and one common hope in Him who is the master of history. We must also accept our responsibility to prepare the world for the coming of the Messiah by working together for social justice, respect for the rights of persons and nations and for social and international reconciliation… To this we are driven, Jews and Christians, by the command to love our neighbor, by a common hope for the Kingdom of God and by the great heritage of the Prophets. Transmitted soon enough by catechesis, such a conception would teach young Christians in a practical way to cooperate with Jews, going beyond simple dialogue.[15]
Thus in this 1985 document, the Vatican – with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Head of the CDF – is officially inviting Catholics to cooperate with Jews to prepare for the coming of the Messiah.
The Fatima Message exhorts us to “pray a great deal for the Holy Father.” May Our Lord soon send us a Pontiff who will once again be faithful to the admonition in Vatican I and in the Oath Against Modernism to teach and preserve the Faith “in the same meaning and in the same explanation” as the Church always taught throughout the centuries.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe, ora pro nobis!
Our Lady of Fatima, ora pro nobis!
Dear Halina,
Thank you.
May the peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a peace not of this world, be to you.
Archbishop Lefebvre, pray for us.
This statement is a red-herring:
“the Jews, a People whose identity ‘in our time’ is firmly established upon their rejection of Jesus Christ”
There are a good number of jews who come to know Jesus as Messiah and yet maintain their kosher laws, circumcision, etc. aka ‘messianic jews.’
The early church in Jerusalem struggled with this very dilemma until St. Paul and the council of Jerusalem
BOAST NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES
Dear Halina:
Thank you for your response. And apologies for the clunkiness of the posting. But I think you overstate things and are a bit hysterical.
There are about 14 million Jews in the world as of 2010; 6.2 million in Asia (including Israel), 5.5 million in America, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. Out of the world’s population of seven billion, the Jews are about 0.2%. Thus, the Jews are virtually statistically insignificant if one is considering souls to be saved in a crass numbers manner. Additionally, there is no missionary impulse in post Christian Judaism so there is no overt attack on Christians by Jews (unlike the Mormons, the Muslims, the New Age, etc) and Judaism is dangerously splintered between the reformed/conservative and the orthodox. Lets bring Christ to our priests and bishops and Pope, and then to fallen away Catholics, then to the Protestants and to those with no religion and to the Muslims, and to the animists etc. Your preoccupation inadvertently gives credibility to the absurd thesis of people like Daniel Goldenhagen- that the holocaust was the inevitable fruit of Catholicism. (of course it was almost purely neopagan see for example Mit Brennender Sorge).
One should not be blinded by political correctness and judge the saints harshly who condemned Jews. Yet no one can defend a pogrom.
I know Pope Benedict is not exactly a welcome figure on this site with its (relatively small readership), but I think he was gently pointing a way against a certain stridency that even the saints used in this area and returning us to the mystery and the humility.
I notice you never quote the Blessed Apostle. Paul says:
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. 20 Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. 21 For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee. 22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if thou were cut out of the wild olive tree, which is natural to thee; and, contrary to nature, wert grafted into the good olive tree: how much more shall they that are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in. 26 And so all Israel should be saved, as it is written: There shall come out of Sion, he that shall deliver and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.
Cheers,
Publius
It’s about time we all calmed down. The SSPX, on some matters may well be more Catholic than the Pope. It remains to be seen. After all, many Popes,( and any number of bishops), have been less than Catholic e.g. Vigilius I and Pelagius I, and others.
As Benedict has clearly said, Vatican II was a pastoral council and defined no new dogma at all. Therefore, the Church’s teaching on religious liberty and on our position regarding the Jewish people is exactly the same after, as before Vat II. There may have been convoluted pastoral observations made, and, hopefully, attitudes may have changed, but the substance was in no way altered. To put it simply, all religions are deficient and/or heretical insofar as they fall short of full Catholic orthodoxy, and the people who crucified Christ have been Jews, or were they Romans?, but he was actually crucified by
Mankind, you and me. It’s all quite simple and logical.
The quicker we get the Syllabus of Errors of Vat II, called for by Bishop Schneider and others, to sort out the chaos regarding the misinterpretations of Vat II, the better.
And by the way Mueller may think the FXXP are in schism but he is wrong. Since they support the pre-Vat II position, and since the Council neither changed nor introduced any new doctrine, then they cannot be in schism – however excitable they may get on certain occasions,.
Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and having taken possession of it, they settled there” (Jos. 21:43).
God also declares through Solomon that all his promises to Israel have been fulfilled:
“Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised; not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he uttered by Moses his servant” (1 Kings 8:56).
God further says through the prophet Nehemiah that His promise to grant the land to Abraham’s descendants has been fulfilled:
“Thou art the LORD, the God who didst choose Abram and bring him forth out of Ur of the Chalde’ans and give him the name Abraham; and thou didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst make with him the covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Per’izzite, the Jeb’usite, and the Gir’gashite; and thou hast fulfilled thy promise, for thou art righteous” (Neh. 9:7-8).
Thus, those who believe that God still owes the Jews land and protection by divine decree deny the plain meaning of Scripture and make God a liar.
In fact, the loss of Israel’s ancient holdings is a sign of God’s divine judgment against the Jews for rejecting His Son, Jesus Christ, their Messiah. God warned Israel in the Old Testament Scriptures:
“But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight; and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished, and will hiss; and they will say, `Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, `Because they forsook the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this evil upon them.’” (1 Kings 9:6-9).
Scripture is clear that God owes the Jews nothing more, and suggests that the Jews are suffering the ramifications of rejecting Jesus Christ. They have been “broken off” of the root of Christ “because of their unbelief” (Rom. 11:19-20). However, Paul says that the Jews can be grafted in again, “if they do not persist in their unbelief,” for God has the power to do so (Rom. 11:23).
We should also note that the Old Covenant that God entered into with the Jews has been superseded by the New Covenant of Christ (the Church calls this doctrine “supercessionism”). This happened the moment that God tore the curtain of the Jewish Temple in two (Matt. 27:51). When we speak of the “Old Covenant,” we are referring to the “Mosaic covenant,” that is, the law that God gave the Jews through Moses (see 2 Cor. 3:14). We are not referring to the Abrahamic covenant which, because it was based on grace through faith, was incorporated into the New Covenant of Christ. This is why Paul says that Abraham is the father of the children of the New Covenant (see Rom. 4:16; 9:7; Gal. 3:29; James 2:21; see also Gal. 3:9,14,16,18).
The only place where the phrase “Old Covenant” is used in the New Testament is in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, and Paul says that “through Christ it is taken away” (see 2 Cor. 3:14). Referring to the abrogation of the Old Covenant, Paul tells the Hebrews that “a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness” (Heb. 7:18). The phrase “set aside” (from the Greek aphetesis) means to annul. Again, referring to the Old Covenant, Paul says “He abolishes the first in order to establish the second” (Heb. 10:9). The word “abolish” (from the Greek anaireo) means to abrogate or destroy. Paul uses very specific language to teach that the Old Covenant has been rendered null and void by the New Covenant of Jesus Christ (see also Heb. 8:7).
This means that the Jews are no longer in a saving covenant with God until they renounce Judaism and are baptized into Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church has affirmed this fact throughout her history (e.g., the Council of Florence; the Council of Trent; Second Vatican Council, Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis). Thus, even though the Second Vatican Council affirmed a person’s civil (but not moral) right to religious liberty, it taught that the Church must preach the gospel to the Jews, as she does to everyone else (Nostra Aetate, 23).
The Jews who reject Jesus Christ as the true Messiah, are the children of the slave Agar’s son Ismael……..Catholics ‘the Chosen People’, are the true children of Israel (the Church) of the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob………THE END!
…Ave Maria…..!
Good post Jacobi!
………THE TRUE RIGHTS OF MAN SPRING PRECISELY FROM HIS DUTIES TOWARDS GOD………
Pope Leo XIII……..it is a ‘false freedom where man is thought to be at liberty to choose any god, any religion, any creed, any body of morals or any means of worship he may have a preference for. It’s a mockery of the One True God Who revealed not only Himself to mankind, but the one and only religion through which ‘we are to come to know, love, worship and serve Him…………it is a crime against God and civilization by declaring them ‘equal’ to the Mystical Body of Christ!
Pope Gregory XVI referred to this religious indifferentism as “the most pernicious plague which can ravage nations” (Mirari vox)?
Pius IX cautioned Christians not to fall for ‘that erroneous opinion most pernicious to the Catholic Church and to the salvation of souls…….namely, that liberty of conscience and of worship which is alleged to be the inalienable right of every man.’
Pius VIII was even more forceful in repudiating the false theory of religious liberty: “Among these heresies belongs that foul contrivance of the sophists of this age who do not admit any difference among the different professions of faith and who think that the portal of eternal salvation opens for all from any religion……This is certainly a monstrous impiety which assigns the same praise to truth and to error, to virtue and to vice, to goodness and to turpitude.” (Traditi Humilitati).
Christian Freedom………Christopher Dawson (1942) THE true freedom of the world—the only freedom that can free man in the depths of his personality—–depends on keeping open the channel of revelation, preserving the Word of Truth and communicating the Spirit of Life. These are the essential Christian freedoms, and it is for this that the Christian Church as a visible institution exists. If the channel becomes choked or the bridge broken, the world falls back into darkness and chaos and humanity once more becomes bound in that state of slavery which the ancient world saw as an impersonal chain of necessity but which Christian tradition conceived in terms of active personal evil as the Kingdom of Satan. It is this wholesale loss of spiritual freedom that is the real danger that faces the world today. The plain fact which we see displayed before our eyes is that the power of man has grown so great that it has denied and shut out the power of the Spirit and that consequently it is destroying the world. We have seen how the new totalitarian orders all tend to become closed orders—spiritual as well as economic autarchies which leave no room for true Christian freedom. And we have no reason to suppose that a new democratic order which bases itself on the ideals of technocracy an economic planning would be fundamentally different in this respect, even though it avoids the grosser evils of the existing totalitarian systems. In so far as this is so, all these new orders are orders of death. In face of this great danger Christianity still stands as the hope of the world, Christianity is still a living force in the modern world. It has still the promise of new life and spiritual freedom as at the beginning……….(things have changed since 1942, today’s democracy has now fully embraced those evils found in the totalitarian systems. American democracy is fast becoming totalitarian). For what we are defending are not only man’s rights but the rights of God. If the channels are closed by which the word of Christ and the power of the Spirit are communicated to man corporately and individually, the world must fall back into the state of darkness and slavery which Christ came to destroy. This is the challenge that Christians have to face today, and they can do so only by returning to the foundations—the organic principles of spiritual life and spiritual freedom which are the laws of the Church’s life.
Man’s Actions Should Be Pointed Toward Eternal Life……..Blaise Pascal (1661) We do not require great education of the mind to understand that here is no real and lasting satisfaction; that our pleasures are only vanity; that our evils are infinite; and lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being for ever either annihilated or unhappy. There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world……….let us reflect and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life but in the hope of another; for it is not to be doubted that the duration of this life is but a moment; that the state of death is eternal, whatever may be its nature; and that thus all our actions and thoughts must take different directions according to the state of that eternity, that it is impossible to take one step with sense and judgment, unless we regulate our course by the truth of that point which ought to be our ultimate end…….there is nothing clearer than this………..the only plan for peace I know is God’s plan. We cannot expect God’s plan for peace to work unless we take it whole and entire. Much of the world needs to be reorganized before it can ever know stability and genuine social and political order.
@halina: ‘We should also note that the Old Covenant that God entered into with the Jews has been superseded by the New Covenant of Christ (the Church calls this doctrine “supercessionism”). This happened the moment that God tore the curtain of the Jewish Temple in two (Matt. 27:51). When we speak of the “Old Covenant,” we are referring to the “Mosaic covenant,” that is, the law that God gave the Jews through Moses (see 2 Cor. 3:14). We are not referring to the Abrahamic covenant which, because it was based on grace through faith, was incorporated into the New Covenant of Christ. This is why Paul says that Abraham is the father of the children of the New Covenant (see Rom. 4:16; 9:7; Gal. 3:29; James 2:21; see also Gal. 3:9,14,16,18).’
The way our ‘teachers’ are trying to redact this truth, especially under some of the messages coming from Bishops under the banner of the ‘New Evangelism’ (is this gonna be a new religion?) – they present this new evangelism as if it abrogates the New Covenant – all pastoral teachings of course.
“I know Pope Benedict is not exactly a welcome figure on this site with its (relatively small readership), but I think he was gently pointing a way against a certain stridency that even the saints used in this area and returning us to the mystery and the humility.”
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There’s a certain arrogance and assumption in this quote. What do attacks on Jewish people(with obligatory personal story) have to do with this article? Who is attacking Jews? Pope Benedict thought some saints too “strident”? Which ones? What mystery and humility was he trying to steer us to that the saints didn’t? Who doesn’t like Pope Benedict on this site?
dear Nell-
I second that query!
dear saluto-
well said–mama mia.
“—-we need an ongoing spirit of crusade, —–to obtain from God the blossoming of His Church, to be protected in danger.” From the new Rosary Crusade.
http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/we-need-ongoing-spirit-crusade-fr-rostand-2961
de Maria numquam satis-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
has the site got a comment moderator now?
weird. back on the schism page my comment’s ‘awaiting the moderator’.
Like the old saying goes, “If you can’t dazzle them with your dogmatical footwork, baffle them with your calumnious bullsh*t.’
And so it goes. The modernists are back at slinging mud at the SSPX. And playing the anti-semetic card is the easiest mud to be found. Just like in the case of “if you don’t vote for Obama, it must mean you are a racist”, it cows people into submission, or at least into silence. And it allows for the “real” questions never to be asked. And that question is: What was Bergoglio & co. thinking and what were their intentions when they decided to hold these wholly secular functions inside the cathedral instead of the local parish hall? The conciliar religion really is a new religion and it’s name is indifferentism.
God have mercy on these people.
TH2 said: “Mr. Verrecchio – yet another fantastic post exposing the ridiculousness of Neo-Catholic narrative. Thank you, sir. Please continue.”
I second that motion.
Resolution passed!
dear S. Armaticus,
stated well and to the point. Peace be to you.
More good news.
Two links for the “Brick by Brick” category:
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/you-report-traditional-mass.html
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/you-report-traditional-rite-of.html
If I was from Alabama, I would say: Roll Tide!
The eternal struggle between good and evil continues.
http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2013/12/sad-christmas-for-franciscans-of.html.
Sometimes evil wins the battle, but we all know who will win the WAR.
S.Armaticus: thanks for the latest on the Franciscans of the Immaculata. the bizarre scattering and shattering of a once faithful flourishing order, exactly where will this ‘ethos cleansing’ stop?
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one commenter had this to say: Seems to me there’s a massive attack on Our Lady at the moment. What with the Franciscan Friars of the “Immaculate” being obliterated, two of their churches being Marian Shrines closing, Our Lady della Rovere and Our Lady of Pontelungo. Earlier we had the transvestite priest appearing at a youth gathering on the Vigil of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, and interestingly now a church dedicated to the Virgin of da Barca has burnt to the ground on the Camino de Santiago. Then add the “lies” and “I have been cheated” comments from the Pope regarding Our Lady… Add to this the use of the TLM.
Saluto: Yes, but the assault on the BVM is only a symptom. The larger picture appears to be that the modernists want to bring Catholicism inline with the protestant sects. I think the end game of the modernists is to re-define the Catholic religion as another sola scriptura sect were a “personal relationship with Jesus” or any other deity that pop culture deems “acceptable” at any given point in time, is the SOLE article of faith. I think this explains the baseball bat approach taken by the modernists to all things Catholic, beginning with the liturgy and ending with morality.
…..WOW! I see that all comments that were ‘awaiting for moderator’…..are posted……this is the reason, why I have broken them down into segments……..now, all is double. Sorry, this was not meant to be posted like that.
Halina, calm down.
Well the new evangelization is very prot like because it does focus so much on personal experience of Jesus. I mean, this is what George Weigel and that book Forming Intentional Disciples say pretty much flat out, we have to be more protestant in our faith. What they fail to recognize is that the failure of catechesis in the Church is because barely anyone is teaching the kids or adults the True Faith any longer, but modernistic, liberal garbage. This is the real reason people are not ‘intentional disciples’ in the Church.
Halina and others. First, thanks for your comments. No worries about doubles. About comments awaiting approval… I have an anti-spam program (an absolute necessity) that weeds out very lengthy posts and ones with multiple links since these are often spam. I don’t have time to monitor this closely, but I’ll approve the real comments being held as I’m able. Best bet is to avoid comments like this, breaking them down into multiple comments (as Halina did). Thanks!
They struggle a great deal with basic issues of common sense, honesty, consistently telling the truth and being fair.
I wish this group had been wiser about optics. Yes, having that interfaith service was wrong but it allowed people to play the antisemitism card.
Publius, have you ever considered that your grandmother’s attitude, which shocked you so much, might have been the result of her actually having experienced “Juden tricks” in real life? As well, it is a known fact that at various times in history large numbers of Jews have “converted” for all the wrong reasons. For example, the Marranos (or conversos) in Spain and Portugal had a detrimental effect on the Church, and on Christian society for that matter.
Publius said: “My German grandmother whom I really loved shocked me when she dismissed the whole thing as a Juden trick. It seemed so primitive and evil, my grandmother’s remark-all the more astounding because she was otherwise so saintly.”
I grew up in the 30’s and 40’s, publius, and my saintly grandmother, who lived with my family , told me at the age of 13 when I was entering high school “don’t have anything to do with Jews or Masons”. It’s interesting that she lumped these two together. I knew of course who the Jews we’re cause I taught in Catholic school that they had crucified Jesus, but I didi not at the time know who “Masons” were. Shortly after I found out when I met many young guys who belonged to De Molay. (It’s been a few years and I’m not sure of the spelling). This is for the indoctrination of the young men. And of course there were the Rainbow girls. My Grandmother was not an extremely educated person, but she knew the Catholic faith and passed it on to me in her own simple way. I am extremely grateful to God for allowing her to be in my life,because this is just one of the many important teachings of my faith that have stayed with me and helped me to weather this storm that is raging in the
church today.
Dear Louis, this is a wonderful post. Thanks so much!
It was the SSPX. Do you, by any chance, think that the Society does not have priests and faithful all over the world who passionately oppose such errors? If you do, think again.
For those of you who may not be aware these so-called “Jews” are not in fact Jews at all but are descendants of a war like tribe called Khazars who converted to Judaism around 600 A.D. Neither they nor their descendants ever set foot in the Holy Land until the Balfour Agreement was signed during WWI by way of getting the U.S. involved in the conflict since both Britain and France were losing the ware. It was a quid pro quo. You give us Palestine and we’ll get the U.S. into the war. And so it was done.
Since 1948, when the state of Israel was formed this so-called Judaism has never been about religion but rather about race–the “Jewish” race [or Zionism] who still retain the war-like nature of their Khazar antecedents. It has been estimated that only a small fraction, less than one tenth of one percent can claim any relationship to the ancient Hebrews if that. It has been openly stated by these “Jews” that their desire is world conquest and considering that they own all the banks world wide, started, own and run the FED and in England in what called “The City” separate from the City of London where all the wealth of the Rothschild’s is kept], they own and run Hollywood and the music industry, all the media both print and electronic, and own and operate the porn industry thus far they’ve accomplished many of their goals. The U.S. taxpayer give Israel £30 pounds to Israel each year to continue their warmongering against the hapless Palestinians. Why is it that all these wars against “terrorism” has not one Israeli soldier ever partaken? No, it’s the U.S. and British troops who come home in body bags. These Zionists, and they alone are responsible for the corruption of what today passes for culture. They are also responsible for the drafting the of the Project for a New American Century [PNAC] founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, both Zionists, with a couple of goy tossed in for good measure the war mongers Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. In the PNAC document one will read this startling statement: “this process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” That of course, was 9-11 orchestrated by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad who wired the buildings for demolition as a pretext for the U.S. and Britain’s never ending wars against “terrorism”. These Mossad agents were arrested by the New Jersey police, held in custody for 71 days and sent back to Israel by none other than Michael Chertoff, a rabid Zionist. Incidentally, the FBI investigation of the events of 9-11 was managed by Michael Chertoff, the Assistant Attorney General “who was the US official who was supposed to collect the evidence, find the guilty parties, and prosecute them. Under Chertoff, however, an Israeli-American dual national, there was no 9-11 investigation and no prosecution”.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dancing+israelis
Moving along, anyone familiar with the Talmud will recall the disgusting references to Christ and his Blessed Mother, i.e., “Christ is in hell boiling in excrement.” “Mary was a wh..e who was impregnated by a Roman Soldier”. “The goy are nothing but cattle made to serve the Jew”. “When we become the masters of the world the goyim will do the work and we will eat”. Yet, the Vatican II popes will gladly kiss the toe of every rabbi who happens to cross their path.
All one has to do is look at these so-called Jews, none of them have semitic features because they are of northern European stock: German, Polish and Russian. Does Bibi Netanyahu look anything like a Palestinian who are the true semites. Christ would have had the features of a Palestinian.
You don’t have to believe anything I have heretofore presented. You can do the research yourself, many from reliable sources, especially the actual films found on Youtube where you will find ABC, NBC, announcers stating that the buildings looked like they were brought down by a controlled demolition especially building 7 which was hardly damaged.
To close, I would like to listen to a talk given by Benjamin Freedman, at one time a high ranking Zionist who converted to Catholicism. In this talk you will hear Mr. Freedman give credence to much of what I have written above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEDPOPr7qiY
Dduw bendithia chi