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Fr. Denis Fahey and the Jews

“In a public address given in the Vatican to Belgian pilgrims in 1938, Pope Pius XI said: “Mark well that in the Catholic Mass, Abraham is our Patriarch and forefather. Anti-Semitism is incompatible with the lofty thought which that fact expresses. It is a movement with which we Christians can have nothing to do. No, no, I say to you it is impossible for a Christian to take part in anti-Semitism. It is inadmissible. Through Christ and in Christ we are the spiritual progeny of Abraham. Spiritually, we [Christians] are all Semites.”

“Although fond of counting Jewish noses in Hollywood, the Politburo, and the United Nations, as well as sniffing out people with Jewish blood, Father Fahey denied that he was an anti-Semite because he honored pre-Christian Jews. Nevertheless, he enjoyed quoting papal policy statements against Jews, coyly refused to reject the long-debunked Protocols*, praised the anti-Semitic activities of Henry Ford, and denied the death toll from the Holocaust.”

– Sandra Miesel

Dear Mr. O’Farrell,

Laudetur Iesus Christus!

“As a member of Father Feeney’s congregation, and as someone who knows many of Father’s lifelong intimates, I can tell you that Father Feeney was no racist. Father Feeney’s vigorous protests against the Jews were from a purely religious perspective. In this, he followed the thinking of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church….

I strongly recommend to you the works of Father Dennis Fahey, a great apostle of Christ the King, whose very supernatural perspective on social issues needs to be more closely studied by those who wish to restore Christian order to society…”

– Brother Andre Marie, M.I.C.M., responding to an article written by Luke O’Farrell entitled “The Joy of Genocide” at the Vanguard News Network, a website which has the following on its masthead: “No Jews. Just Right.” – http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/?p=494

Father Feeney was no racist? There are accounts of him screaming at Jewish people and hurling anti-Semitic epithets at them while condemning them to Hell. In his acclaimed book on the life of Richard Cardinal Cushing entitled “Cushing of Boston: A Candid Portrait,” noted author Joseph Dever – who was both a well known novelist and feature writer for the Boston Sunday Herald as well as a former editor of the Bruce Publishing Company, devotes a chapter to the Leonard Feeney affair.

He writes, “Many Boston Catholics – this writer included – were friends of Feeney and his brother, the whimsical, lovable fellow Jesuit, Thomas Butler Feeney, during World War II and through the late Forties. The relationship was laudable and normal in those days. Eventually, Father Feeney began saying and doing strange things; perhaps he was under exceptional mental strain. His rigid, fanatical emphasis on ‘No salvation outside the Church’ was bad enough at first…But Father Feeney’s rigid fanaticism deteriorated steadily into bitter invective. He reduced the doctrine to the absurd..” (p. 144).He continues: “Anyone who has ever been to St. Benedict Center during the first days of deterioration, or to the Sunday ‘seances’ at the Boston Common during the final days, can recall some of Father Feeney’s sick, horrifying rhetoric. Even in the early days, no difference of opinion, no matter how gentle or reasonable, would be tolerated.” (pp. 145-146).

Brother Andre Marie has also insisted that members of the Saint Benedict Center are not anti-Semitic. But the facts suggest otherwise. Read the following article over at Fringe Watcher: http://fringewatcher.blogspot.com/2006/01/feeneyite-connection.html

* Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an anti-Semitic propaganda tool which has been thoroughly discredited by historians. See my article linked at Fringe Watcher.

Paul