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The Point
Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center
January, 1959
SHOULD HATE BE OUTLAWED?
Most Americans, hearing this question, would answer promptly, “Yes, by
all means, hate should be outlawed!” Their eagerness to reply can be
accounted for all too easily. During the last decade and a half, they
have been pounded with a propaganda barrage calculated to leave them in a
state of dazed affability toward the whole world. Those advertising
techniques that are normally used to encourage Americans to be choosy in
matters of soap and toothpaste are now being enlisted to persuade them
that there is no such thing as a superior product in matters of culture
and creed. On billboards, on bus and subway posters, in newspapers and
magazines, through radio and television broadcasts, Americans are being
assured and reassured, both subtly and boldly, that “Bigotry is fascism
... Only Brotherhood can save our nation ... We must be tolerant of
all!”
The long-range effects of this campaign are even now evident. It is
producing the “spineless citizen”: the man who has no cultural
sensibilities; who is incapable of indignation; whose sole mental
activity is merely an extension of what he reads in the newspaper or
sees on the television screen; who faces moral disaster in his
neighborhood, political disaster in his country, and an impending world
catastrophe with a blank and smiling countenance. He has only
understanding for the enemies of his country. He has nothing but kind
sentiments for those who would destroy his home and family. He has an
earnest sympathy for anyone who would obliterate his faith. He is
universally tolerant. He is totally unprejudiced. If he has any
principles, he keeps them well concealed, lest in advocating them he
should seem to indicate that contrary principles might be inferior. He
is, to the extent of his abilities, exactly like the next citizen, who,
he trusts, is trying to be exactly like him: a faceless, characterless
putty-man.
* * * * *
Along with everyone else, American Catholics have been hammered with the
slogans of the “anti-hate” campaign. Additionally, they remember the
stories of how prejudice against Catholics oftentimes made America a
very uncomfortable place for their immigrant Catholic grandparents. And
so, they too, if asked, would declare unhesitatingly that hate should be
outlawed.
What American Catholics do not stop to reflect on is that the Catholic
Faith, by its very nature, fosters indignation, intolerant positions,
and strong utterance. The Church is set up to continue the divine
ministry of Jesus Christ, Who avowed that He had come on Earth, “Not to
send peace, but the sword ... to cast fire on the Earth, and what will I
but that it be kindled.”
In accepting their vocation to be “other Christs,” Catholics are faced
with the countless examples of Gospel astringency. They are reminded
that the same Jesus Who said, “Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of
heart,” likewise said, “I came to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law. And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own
house-hold.” Nor can they forget that the same Jesus, Who submitted
Himself to the Jewish mob in the garden of Gethsemani, had previously
overturned the tables of the buyers and sellers and driven them from the
temple with a whip.
In accepting their position as contemporary members of the Church,
American Catholics must take as their heritage the outlooks, attitudes,
and purposes of their older brothers and sisters in the Faith — those
Catholics who have gone before them and have preserved the Church to our
own day. For the Catholic Church is One. The Church that called on its
sons to take up the Cross and the sword and drive the infidel from the
Holy Land, the Church that isolated the Jews of Christendom with rigid
laws and ghetto walls, the Church that has repeatedly condemned the
doctrines of those who disagree with her, is the same Catholic Church
that claims the loyalty of 35,000,000 twentieth-century Americans.
Along with the Mass, the Sacraments, and all the spiritual treasures
that are a Catholic’s baptismal birthright, these American Catholics
must also assume the rest of their legacy. As members of the Church
Militant — raised by the Sacrament of Confirmation to be Soldiers of
Jesus Christ — they are heirs of a tradition that has been marked
through the centuries by sustained and unashamed militancy.
* * * * *
Examples of the clash between traditional Catholic observance and the
current “anti-hate” campaign could be multiplied indefinitely. Every
chapter in every age of the Church’s history will provide them, because
the ultimate issue involved is an abiding one, a doctrinal one. It is
the Catholic Church’s uncompromising claim to be the One True Church
established by God. It is this conviction of Catholics throughout the
centuries that leaves our greatest heroes and saints and the very
constitution of the Church itself open to the charges of bigotry and
intolerance.
The Catholic Church does not believe that all religions are on a common
plane. It does not subscribe to the popular notion that, “We’re all
headed for the same place, you in your way and we in ours.” The Catholic
Church believes that Christianity is the world’s only chance for
salvation, and it further insists that true Christians are found only
within its fold, under the Supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of Christ, Our
Holy Father at Rome.
Inevitably, this belief, when translated into practical action, makes
for some intolerant arrangements: Catholics are admonished not to marry
heretics and Jews; they may not attend a non-Catholic religious service;
Catholic children must be sent to the Church’s schools. The motive
behind these bigoted practices is the preservation of the Faith — not as
an antique curiosity, but as a vital necessity. And not as a necessity
for a chosen few, but as a necessity for all men, everywhere.
It is this terrible urgency about the Faith that explains both the
Church’s rigidity in matters of doctrine an her encompassing love in
matters of apostolate. For the note of absolute necessity that attaches
to Catholic Truth, and makes the Church so intolerant and unbending, is,
at the same time, the push and the drive behind every apostle. It is
precisely because they are intolerant enough to believe that all men need
the Catholic Faith in order to be saved, that the Church’s
missionaries, from the time of Saint Paul, have given the world its most
heroic example of zealous, consuming, constant, sweating, bleeding,
dying but undying, love.
It is this love, this apostolic fervor, that the “anti-hate” program
means to eliminate. For the ultimate outcome of the propaganda barrage
that is now incessantly pounding the nation will be not only a spineless
American citizen, but a spineless American Catholicism — a Catholicism
that will be afraid to assert its own singularity and importance, a
Catholicism that will try to become more like its neighbor religions,
doing nothing to annoy, nothing to criticize, nothing that would in any
way cause it to be accused of intolerance, bigotry, or hate.
* * * * *
Certainly no one will suppose that the promoters of the “anti-hate”
campaign are just a bunch of well-meaning meddlers who launched the
thing in all innocence and who would be dismayed to hear that it might
discomfit the Catholic Church. The truth of the matter is much to the
contrary. Just as the fast-talking soap commercials play on the
gullibility of American housewives to make money for the big soap
manufacturers, so the anti-hate slogans are selling Americans a bill of
goods that will make rich profits for the Catholic Church’s enterprising
enemies.
This deliberate and calculated program is a lineal descendant of that
eighteenth-century campaign that clamored for “liberty, equality, and
fraternity,” and ended up by wrecking Catholic France. It is akin to all
those freethinking, freely-named, anti-Catholic ventures that have been
plaguing the Church since the time of the Protestant Revolt — Humanism,
Jacobinism, Freemasonry, Liberalism, Secularism, Communism, etc. For
however much these movements may differ from one another in the means
they advocate, they are all working for the same ultimate end. They are
intent on building the City of Man — to the inevitable detriment of the
City of God. They are enraged against the Church because of her calm
insistence that the one thing that really matters is eternal salvation,
and that she is the one divinely-commissioned ark of salvation. They are
determined to show that the Church is not that important: if not by
destroying her violently, then by reducing her to the level of the
sects.
It was this latter expedient that appealed to Jean Jacques Rousseau,
herald of the French Revolution and avowed evangelist of the Brotherhood
crowd. Rousseau maintained (in The Social Contract, Book IV)
that the worship of God should be allowed to continue, provided it did
not become an end in itself. Theology must not usurp the superior place
of politics; the interests of religion must be subordinate to those of
the state. Accordingly, he felt the civil power should decide what
articles of belief citizens might hold. And among these articles,
Rousseau urged just one prohibition: anyone daring to say, “There is no
salvation outside the Church,” should be banished.
All the followers of Rousseau, in their various guises — as well as his
like-minded antecedents — are the Courtiers of the Prince of this World.
But there is one group among them that is particularly of the household
of Satan. They are the children of Satan, as Our Lord Himself calls
them, the Jews. They, pre-eminently, are fired by the earthly,
anti-Christian animus; and they have taken an active part, during twenty
centuries, in all its manifestations. (This alone can explain the
Church’s unique attitude toward the Jews: her traditional determination
that this one people must be kept in check.)
As surely and securely as the Jews have been behind Freemasonry, or
Secularism, or Communism, they are behind the “anti-hate” drive. Not
that this movement represents the fruition of Talmudic doctrine. The
Jews are advocating tolerance only for its destructive value —
destructive, that is, of the Catholic Church. On their part, they still
keep alive their racial rancors and antipathies. Their Talmud, for
example, still teaches that Christ was a brazen impostor, and gives an
unprintably blasphemous account of his parentage and birth. And as the
Christmas season just past should have taught us, the Jews, for all
their Brotherhood talk, have not in the least abandoned their resolute
program to make all acknowledgments of Christmas disappear from the
public and social life of the nation.
The secret of the Jews’ success is, of course, that they can practice
such private hate while promoting public “love,” and not be accused of
inconsistency. For, as always, they are running the show mainly from
behind the scenes. They get their message across by means of
co-operative Gentiles. And there are probably more such Gentiles now
available — both the willing kind and the kind willing to be duped —
than ever before in history. As a further good fortune, the Jewish
directors of America’s entertainment industry can now guarantee that one
Brotherhood spokesman, well-placed (e.g., behind a microphone or before
a television camera), is able to influence Americans by the millions.
And the Jews’ campaign is succeeding. We have every reason to be alarmed
at its success. American Catholics, even those not actively taking part
in the tolerance talk, are now kept in line by the omnipresent threat
of being accused of hate, bigotry, and intolerance.
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In the face of a new year that will be the biggest one yet for the Brotherhood promoters, The Point
pleads with American Catholics to realign themselves with the militant
traditions of their grandfathers. No threat of “bigotry,” no accusation
of “intolerance” should temper our zeal or silence our message. We must
preserve our commission to “Go forth and teach all nations...;” to
“Reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.”
Unworthy as we are, we American Catholics must protect for ourselves the
duty of naming God’s enemies and the privilege of carrying God’s
revealed Truth to the people of our country, who, we pray, will hear it,
with generosity and gratitude, and who will repeat that intolerant
Profession of Faith which the Church requires of all new converts: “ ...
At the same time, I condemn and reprove all that the Church has
condemned and reproved. This same Catholic Faith, outside of which
nobody can be saved, which I now freely profess and to which I truly
adhere, the same I promise and swear to maintain and profess, with the
help of God, entire, inviolate and with firm constancy until the last
breath of life; and I shall strive as far as possible that this same
Faith shall be held, taught and publicly professed by all those who
depend on me, and by those of whom I shall have charge.”
(from the Rituale Romanum, published in 1947 with the Imprimatur of the Cardinal Archbishop of New York.)
A Militant Example
A recent Vatican news release has stated that Saint Lawrence of Brindisi
may soon be declared a Doctor of the universal Church. Should he
receive that title, the Italian Franciscan, who died in 1619, would thus
become the thirtieth saint whom the Church has especially singled out
as a teacher of the Faith to all Catholics everywhere.
Born at Brindisi in 1559, Saint Lawrence early demonstrated the singular
gifts that would make him a brilliant preacher. As a Capuchin friar,
with a personal commission from Pope Clement VIII, the saint delivered
vigorous sermons in the principal Italian ghettos, thus incurring a
bitter resentment among the Jews that has persisted to this day.
For our age of cowering Catholics, Lawrence of Brindisi supplies a
reproving example. Not only did he work tirelessly to challenge the
perfidy of the Jews, but he brought back to the Faith many who had gone
over to the Protestant Revolt, and, most spectacular of all, he led an
army against the Turks. It was in Hungary, in the year 1601, that Saint
Lawrence, armed with nothing more than his cowl and his Crucifix, led a
Christian army, outnumbered four to one, to an astounding victory over
the infidels.
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The Point
Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center
February, 1959
SOME SUMMARIES AFTER SEVEN YEARS
Having reached the reasonable maturity of seven years, The Point
begins its eighth with a few reflections on those subjects, both men
and movements, that have occupied its columns and arrested its readers
during the past eighty-four months.
Although this commits us to something of a summary, we do not intend
it as a catalog of our editorial interests. Indeed, some of the items
here represented have already yielded place to more urgent ones. For it
is The Point’s intention to speak out on any issue, old or new,
that touches upon its central dedication: protecting and propagating the
truths and traditions of the Catholic Faith.
COMMUNISM
Our favorite issue of The Point thus far is easily the one for
May, 1957. It was entitled “Our Lady of Fatima Warned Us,” and what
makes it so memorable is not any particularly fine touch it received
from our pen, but the good fortune that befell it after it left us. A
Virginia reader mailed a copy of it to England, to the Western European
Center of the anti-Communist Russian Revolutionary Forces. She
accompanied it with a letter, asking that since the message of Our Lady
of Fatima, as The Point explained it, was of immediate concern to
the Russian people, couldn’t the anti-Communist Russian underground
somehow get the story to its agents and sympathizers behind the Iron
Curtain?
The Russian Revolutionary Forces thought they could. Twice, however,
“Operation Fatima” failed. But a third try, in May, 1958, a year after
our Fatima issue first appeared, succeeded gloriously. By August, a
courier’s message to R.R.F.’s Western European Center brought the
welcome news that Russians in Moscow, Kiev, Kharkov,
Komsomolsk-Na-Amure, Kishinniev, Odessa, Vladivostock, and Alma-Ata were
now reading “for the first time” the story of Our Lady’s apparition and
her promise that “Russia will be converted.” The leaflet, still being
circulated, carries in its right front column The Point ’s
picture of Our Lady, drawn especially for the May, 1957, issue. Beneath
the picture is the Russian text of a prayer that ends, “I have no other
help nor aid but you, O Mother of God, save and protect me now and in
the years to come. Amen.”
This prayer, repeated in thousands of secret places throughout Russia,
is the one kind of weapon that the Communists are defenseless against.
That we had some small share in forging that weapon is The Point ’s greatest consolation in seven years of battling the enemies of the Faith.
THE HOLY LAND
In April of 1955, we presented a detailed, though necessarily
incomplete, account of the atrocities and desecrations perpetrated in
Palestine since its seizure by the new Jewish state. We published names
of convents, Catholic hospitals and orphanages, and ancient Church
buildings and shrines that had been either confiscated, pillaged or
demolished by the fanatic Israelis. Our principal sources for this
information were the courageous reports of a few isolated diocesan
newspapers and the first-hand accounts of Franciscan members of the
Commissariat of the Holy Land.
Since that very popular issue was distributed, there has been an
increasing interest among American Catholics to learn more of what
happened in those first years of Jewish “independence” in Palestine.
That interest, as reflected in certain Catholic publications, has won
the Church some stern rebukes.
The latest of these appeared in New York’s Jewish Spectator for
December, 1958. It was an editorial attack on Catholic periodicals that
persist in exposing the activities of Jews in the Holy Land, and it
concluded with this frank stand-off: “It is touching that the Catholic
Church, after a thousand years of antipathy, should suddenly be so
sympathetic to the needs of the Arabs, and that the Church, which has
practiced some of the most hideous barbarities, should find the Israelis
guilty of ‘heartless injustices.’ What conclusion is to be drawn from
all this? Simply that as long as Jews remain Jews, they will be a thorn
in the side of Christianity, which will seek to remove it.”
TRADITION
A most formidable enemy within the Church today is that army of
pseudoscholars and self-conscious apologizers who, we must conclude,
have determined to debunk and overthrow any Catholic tradition that
annoys or embarrasses them. Last November, The Point showed how
this attack, to the delight of the Church’s external enemies, has
carried over to Catholic hagiography — leaving the lives of our
canonized saints open to wholesale re-assessment, based on the latest
theories of post-Freudian psychology.
A related offensive has been opened out in the Iowa cornfields. A
priest named Father Catich has shocked Catholics (as he intended) by
demanding pictorial representations of Our Lord in modern dress.
Decrying traditional Catholic art, in terms bristling with unpriestly
disrespect, Father Catich summarizes,” We must fashion a Christ who will
be no stranger to our time ... I do not think it vulgar to suggest we
give Christ a shave and a haircut.”
Father Catich and his crusade may go down in oblivion before more
significant debunkers, but he has provided us with a clear anticipation
of what the anti-traditionalists ultimately want: the entire length of
the Christian dispensation — liturgy, dogma, and all — retailored in
“modern dress.” This is that same spirit of heresy that Pope Leo XIII
condemned in “Americanism,” and Saint Pius X condemned in “Modernism.”
The labels have been changed, but the movements continue.
BOSTON
Since January, 1956, when The Point issued its first detailed
report on the Jewish siege of Boston, Boston Jews, with the possible
exception of Mr. Bernard Goldfine, have continued to augment their
holdings, increase their returns, and generally tighten their grip on
this (numerically) Catholic city.
The single lightsome relief in the darkening Boston picture came last
Fall with the sudden demise of Massachusetts’ Attorney General, George
Fingold, the Republican Party’s “sure winner” candidate in the state’s
1958 gubernatorial race. The Worcester Telegram ’s State House
reporter concluded his Fingold death notice with the following ingenuous
observation: “ ... He wanted to be elected governor as living and final
proof that the voters of this state had no bias against a Jewish
candidate for that high office. By the tone of his voice, by a few of
the things he said, I took it he wasn’t sure about that. Now he will
never know.”
GENOCIDE
Early in 1955, we warned our readers about a United Nations brainchild
called the Genocide Convention. This document was then on the verge of
being introduced in the United States Senate for ratification as an
international treaty. Had it been ratified, the provisions of the
Genocide Convention would have become, in effect, an amendment to our
Constitution and “the supreme law of the land.”
Fortunately, that harried and shrinking Senatorial band, the
Conservatives, took the trouble to discover just what these provisions
were. They found that although “genocide” etymologically might mean
“race-killing,” the United Nations was by no means calling on the Senate
for some vague denunciation of mass murder. To be guilty of genocide,
as defined by the U. N.’s Genocide Convention, it is not necessary that
you be caught in the act of violently and totally exterminating some
race. It is quite sufficient that you be accused of “incitement” or
“complicity,” and the deed itself need be only “causing serious mental
harm to members of the group.”
And how is mental harm to be caused? And to what group? Plentiful and
vivid answers to these questions are to be found in the columns of
America’s weekly Jewish newspapers. For the Genocide Convention, though
still not ratified by this country, has been adopted elsewhere. And
Jewish papers each week regale their readers with accounts of its
successful operation. The following item, from the Jewish Advocate
of Boston, is typical: “The Hague (JTA) — A 50-year-old boat livery
owner has been sentenced to ten days imprisonment for using anti-Semitic
language to abuse a passer-by. A Utrecht magistrate, pronouncing
sentence, said the boatman had used the word ‘Jewish’ in a manner
insulting to the Jewish people ... ”
HARVARD
A few years back, university officials assured us, off-guardedly, that
Harvard’s quota on Jewish students was a strict ten per cent. Lately,
after much intervening pressure, The Harvard Crimson, the
university’s daily, has published the fact that twenty-five per cent of
Harvard’s student body is now professedly Jewish. Although the quota lid
has not been off very long at Harvard, the percentage of non-Gentiles
is climbing vertically with each new academic term.
Material previously handled under the heading of Harvard may, in the
near future, be found incorporated under general news of the Jewish
community.
MASONRY
This theme has been a recurring one during The Point ’s seven
articulate years and, unlike Harvard, is not likely to slip from our
interest in the future. If anyone feels that such perennial concern with
the Masonic menace is overdoing it a bit, we have an impressive
rejoinder. Since the start of modern Freemasonry, in 1717, the sect has
been warned against and condemned no less than twenty different times by
fourteen popes, including every one from Pius VI (1775-1799) to Pius
XII.
The reason for the alarm is not hard to see. However innocent
individual lodge members may be of Masonry’s real intent, that intent is
plain. It is expressed by Masonry’s noted American publicist, J. S.
Buck, in his book, The Genius of Freemasonry and the Twentieth Century Crusade:
“Just so fast as the world is converted to the ethical principles of
Freemasonry, just so fast and so far the world repudiates every
principle and every claim and practice of Roman clericalism.”
Despite general, and evident, successes in the Masonic campaign, there
has been recently, on the far horizon, a victory for our side. The state
of California had submitted to referendum, for last November’s voting, a
proposal to tax private (and, therefore, parochial) schools. This, of
course, was the Masons’ meat. The Scottish Rite high command swaggered
into the battle full of gusto — confident that its wealth, power, and
influence would carry the day. It was the first time in modern American
history that Masonry, in its own name, had entered a political contest.
The final outcome: California voters rejected the school-taxing proposal
by an overwhelming margin of two-to-one.
The whole episode was an eye-opener — for Masons as well as for Catholics.
MARRANOS
The term was first used in Spain as a label for those Jews who were
trying to undo the Church from within. Two current arguments for its
continued use are that pair of Jewish-convert priests whom The Point
has several times warned against: Father Arthur Klyber, the
Redemptorist pamphleteer, and Father John Oesterreicher, of Seton Hall’s
Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies.
Among non-clerical American Jewish converts, few have done so much for
the Jews in so short a time as the expensively-publicized Miss Lillian
Roth. In order to let New England Jews know Miss Roth’s true loyalties,
the Jewish Advocate of Boston printed an interview with her in
which it stated that she “considers herself a Jewess despite her
conversion to Catholicism.” To clinch the point, the Advocate quoted Miss Roth directly: “I will always be a Jew no matter what faith I follow.”
ENGLISH CATHOLICS
We had no notion when we decided to do our piece on Monsignor Ronald
Knox last July that so many people shared our aversion to the late
literateur. It turned out to be one of the most popular issues we have
ever done. Nor should anyone interpret our silence on the subject during
the past few months to mean that we have written all we intend to about
the Bible-embroidering Monsignor and his faithless colleagues. As
Hilaire Belloc said after firing his verbal volley at the “Don that
dared attack my Chesterton” — our “fires are banked, but still they
burn.”
About Belloc himself, we had our say in the issue subsequent to the
Knox one. We presented him, by way of contrast, as an English Catholic
writer who was loyal to the Faith. Some readers have asked why we didn’t
take more notice in that issue of Belloc’s friend and ally, the
aforesaid Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It is because, frankly, we do not
think he was of the same stature as Belloc.
Still, there is no denying that Chesterton shared most of Belloc’s
sympathies and antipathies, and at his best could be nearly as militant
and almost as hilarious as Hilaire. He could be equally satirical —
witness the following Chesterton triolet:
I am fond of Jews,
Jews are fond of money —
Never mind of whose.
I am fond of Jews.
Oh, but when they lose,
Damn it all, it’s funny.
I am fond of Jews,
Jews are fond of money.
POINT OF THE POINT
Readers of the foregoing reflections may have observed that one topic especially has occupied The Point ’s attention during the past seven years: the problem, in its many aspects, of the Jews.
Why this emphasis? Because we think it is imperative that American
Catholics wake up to the fact that the Jews, as an organized force, are
the implacable, declared enemies of Christianity — of its tenets, its
traditions, its moral code, its very culture. We think it is vital, too,
for American Catholics to realize that the Church has always known this
fact about the Jews, and, to the extent of her influence, has counseled
and decreed regulations for curbing their malice. And since American
Catholic publications, in general, seem determined to say little about
these basic matters, we have tried to make up for their negligence by
our own insistence.
Our solution to the Jewish problem, however, is not merely a series of
warnings and exposures to let American Catholics know what their enemies
are up to. For we will be able to withstand no enemy, however well informed we are, if we are not strong from within. The ultimate point of The Point
is therefore to inject American Catholics with a crusading zeal for the
truths and traditions of their Faith, and thus to foster in America a
strong, militant Catholicism, worthy of a country that is dedicated to
the Immaculate Conception.
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The Point
Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center
March, 1959
IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM THOMAS WALSH
Who Tried To Warn Us Before It Was Too Late
Ten years ago last month, at Saint Agnes Hospital, White Plains, New
York, William Thomas Walsh died at the age of fifty-seven. His death was
remarked upon, with varying degrees of sympathy, in the principal
Catholic papers. Even The New York Times ran a sizeable obituary,
exceptional for the mellow tone in which it summarized the life of a
man whose books and beliefs had gone so unappreciated in the Times’ past.
The biographical information in all the accounts was impeccably
truthful. Born in Connecticut, educated at Yale, William Thomas Walsh
had been a newspaperman, teacher, historian, something of a dramatist
and poet, and had retired as Professor of English at Manhattanville
College of the Sacred Heart several months before his death. He had been
awarded Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal. Twice he had been decorated by the
government of Spain. In 1944, he had won the Catholic Literary Award of
the Gallery of Living Catholic Authors. Death had come after a long
illness.
It was all true. Yet, in not one of the accounts did the real
importance of William Thomas Walsh break through the barrier of
statistics. No one credited him with this: that in an age when Catholics
were so generally ignorant of, and indisposed to learn of, the great
dangers that face the Church from without, he understood those dangers
and how they arose, and left us a record of his understanding.
If he had done no more than reassert the truth that the Church does
have enemies, William Thomas Walsh would be deserving of grateful
remembrance by American Catholics. But he did many times better than
that. With the patience of a thorough scholar, and the zeal of a
thorough Catholic, Dr. Walsh traced in several historical studies the
mainstreams of present opposition to the Church, from the headwaters of
the late Renaissance and the Reformation.
He showed there was continuity and purpose in the plans of the Church’s
enemies, who, among themselves, maintained hierarchy and chain of
command. He said that if Catholics were to protect their Faith, they
must acknowledge these enemies, learning from the Church’s experience
with them in the past. He said that we must do this despite the inimical
atmosphere in which the Church moves today, the atmosphere created by
her enemies’ successes. He championed those methods by which the Church
had for so many centuries held off her enemies, methods that historical
critics have maliciously misrepresented, or ridiculed as “witch hunts.”
He took on these critics, too — the exalted Protestant historians — and
resoundingly showed them up, from Prescott and Hume to Merriman and Lea.
* * * * *
William Thomas Walsh’s record of the fortunes of the Faith over the
past five centuries is wisely centered in Spain. In a series of books
entitled Philip II, Isabella of Spain, Characters of the Inquisition, and Saint Teresa of Avila,
Walsh exposes and examines every major assault that has been made
against the Church since the end of the late middle ages. Spain, he
points out, is the one Catholic nation that has faced all these assaults
and has survived, still Catholic, to boast of it.
Spain was the first of the modern European countries to bear the full
weight of the Jewish problem. Her decisive solution was the famous
expulsion of the Spanish Jews in 1492. This was the same year that she
overthrew the last of the Mohammedan strongholds within her boundaries,
thus ending an eight-hundred-year battle with the Church’s Islamic
enemies. Similarly, the recurrent threats of Freemasonry and
Protestantism were put down by the staunchly Catholic policies of the
government and by the dedicated persistence of the Spanish clergy.
Dr. Walsh is at his best in re-creating the atmosphere of intrigue that
accompanied the religious warfare of the sixteenth century. In the
pages of Philip II, he leaves an unforgettable picture of the
Protestant Revolt: the fanatic ex-Catholics, the slippery university
men, the avaricious upstart Protestant nobility, the ubiquitous Jewish
merchants, the Marrano priests, and the expanding centers of Antwerp and
Geneva and London all astir with the “new doctrines,” and restless with
the plottings of an international and secret fraternity. For even in
the 1500s, Freemasonry is clearly at work in the battle against the
Church, and it is fixed in much of its present-day identity. There is
the Talmudic symbolism, the pagan ritual, the bitter hatred of the
Faith, and everywhere the influence of the Jews.
Walsh gives details of King Philip’s suppression of the Masonic Illuminati.
(They were operating in Spain two centuries before their reorganization
under Adam Weishaupt, their “illuminization” of the French lodges, and
their bloody, blasphemous triumphs in the French Revolution.) And while
Philip, the last of Europe’s strong Catholic kings, was stamping out
Masonry in Spain, Elizabeth I of England was opening the way for its
spread to all of the Protestant North. Building an English empire to
rival and finally wreck the Catholic empire of Spain became a top
Judaeo-Masonic objective, and it was not long in the achievement. It has
remained for our own day to see England’s abandonment by these same
international forces. And this abandonment (in favor of the New York and
Moscow two-party world system) has put England back in the ranks of the
second-rate powers.
Necessarily, in uncovering the origins of our present anti-Christian
society, William Thomas Walsh’s books touch on a number of themes that
gain new significance when studied in relation to the root issues of
Judaeo-Masonry, the Protestant Revolt, and the principles of the French
Revolution. Philip II contains, among so many other things, a
unique study of the role of a Catholic ruler, his chances for true
patriotism, for service and sacrifice in the cause of the Faith, and,
contrarily, his abundant chances for falling short. In Saint Teresa of Avila,
there is the forgotten lesson of the power of holiness, and Walsh’s
unfeigned judgment that one woman of Catholic courage can preserve the
Faith of a whole people.
Jewish ritual murders and the virtues of several Spanish Inquisitors
are two of the more provocative side-studies proposed by Walsh in Isabella of Spain and Characters of the Inquisition.
He tells the story of the Holy Child of Sepulveda and devotes a full
chapter to the Holy Child of La Guardia. These two young victims
suffered torture and crucifixion at the hands of the Jews during Queen
Isabella’s reign. And following up his definition of the Inquisition as
Spain’s “declaration of independence against the domination of Jews and
Moors,” Walsh gives detailed accounts of the treacheries of the Marranos
(the pretended converts from Judaism) as exposed by the Dominican
Inquisitors.
Most exceptional of all is the discussion of the Jewish Talmud in Characters of the Inquisition.
Walsh tells plainly why the Talmud became the most-burned book in
Christendom, and why its commentaries were the first books to be placed
on the Church’s Index. He makes a clear distinction between the divine
law of the inspired Old Testament and the diabolical law of the Talmudic
rabbis — quoting from both Jewish and Catholic authorities to indicate
the extent of the Talmud’s blasphemous and obscene attacks on Our Lord
and His Virginal Mother.
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Though obliged to dig deep into the past in his search for long-buried
historical truths, William Thomas Walsh never lost sight of the present
scene. By scrutinizing the enemies that the Church had faced in former
times, he sharpened his vision to recognize the perils confronting her
today. Thus, in the summer of 1936, as he worked on the final chapters
of Philip II, Walsh was painfully conscious of the news coming
from contemporary Spain — news of churches being burned, convents
wrecked, priests and nuns murdered. When the Spanish army, led by
General Franco, rose up against the Masonic-Communistic government that
had fostered these outrages, Walsh eagerly assumed the role of advocate
for the insurrectionists. Whatever Franco’s defects, he and his men were
defending the Mystical Body of Christ, and William Thomas Walsh, a
grateful member of that Body, was willing to defend them.
When victory finally came for the Spanish Catholic forces, in 1939,
William Thomas Walsh was strangely solemn. True, the three-year job of
trying to make himself heard above the anti-Franco clamor of America’s
Jewish and Masonic press had been exhausting. Yet, that was the sort of
hard, satisfying work he would usually have thrived on. In the brooding,
prophetic final chapter of Characters of the Inquisition
(published in 1940), Walsh revealed what was troubling him. He had been
thinking not about the victory that the Church had just secured in
Spain, but about the possible defeat looming before it in America. “Here
on the last edge and in the twilight of the world,” he wrote, “the
stage is set for the reenactment of an ancient tragedy ... Here we have
most of the Freemasons of the world, many of the world’s Jews, most of
the gold and its masters ... and among them heirs of all the isms and
heresies that the Catholic Church has denounced throughout the
centuries, and some millions of good bewildered folk who have ceased to
believe much in anything ... The real test of our republican experiment
here must ultimately be whether it accepts or opposes the Church of
Christ ... it must become either a Catholic state, or a slave state.”
And Walsh can point to plenty of evidence, even in the year 1940, that
America is fast slipping into slavery: “Just now, there seems to be a
deadly strife between international capitalism, entrenched in the United
States and gradually leading this country toward a State Socialism ...
and, on the other side, the seemingly more godless and goldless forms of
Socialism beyond the seas.” But, he asks, what is to prevent this
American Socialism, “now in the making and already accepted and
propagated by the dominant educational forces in this country,” from
arriving at “mutually agreeable arrangements” with even the Socialism of
Soviet Russia? And with clear insight, in those pre-UN days, he
concludes, “As the world grows smaller in time, may not all the forms of
Socialism be gathered together by skillful hands into a World State,
such as many Masonic writers have advocated ... ? It is not only
conceivable, but probable.”
And how are American Catholics meeting this dark challenge? It is
William Thomas Walsh’s great distress that, in the words of the Gospel
figure, they are hiding the light of their Faith under a bushel.
Unwilling to preach the strong, sundering truths of the Faith, that will
make converts but will also make enemies, American Catholics have
settled down to a stagnant complacency. The strong voices raised among
them are those of the liberals, protesting their loyalties to the
principles of Interfaith, and thus piping the listless faithful to
destruction.
“Now all these gentlemen, these liberal broad-minded Catholics,” Walsh
writes, “many of whom are teaching the next generation of American
Catholics, no doubt think they are doing a service to God in smoothing
out our differences with others, and neglecting to utter the challenge
which Christianity has uttered everywhere else in the world ... But if
the history of Christianity teaches anything, it fairly cries out from
the stones of desecrated and forsaken and stolen churches, that if they
have their way ... they will lead us, if we are foolish enough to follow
them, to that abyss over which the English Catholics fell, one by one
and family by family, in the sixteenth century. ... Our one hope of
winning, for their own good, the millions of unbelievers who surround us
... is to speak boldly the truth God has given us, in season and out of
season ... This will inevitably bring persecution upon us ... If we are
suspected, ostracized, insulted, starved, beaten, imprisoned,
misrepresented, neglected, put to death in a thousand new ways — that is
what we have to expect as Christians; and it is a method that will
prove as irresistible in the twentieth century as it was in the first
and second. Or does anyone imagine that here in America, as an unique
exception, the servant shall be greater than his Lord?”
* * * * *
At the end of World War II, William Thomas Walsh journeyed to the tiny
village of Fatima in Portugal. He had come to learn at first hand the
terrible, beautiful story of what had happened there in 1917: when the
Queen of Heaven appeared to three shepherd children and entrusted them
with the knowledge that unless the world were converted to her
Immaculate Heart, every nation, without exception, would feel the wrath
of her Divine Son.
When Walsh returned to the United States, it was with the conviction,
“that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God
asked in those apparitions of 1917, which for some reason have been so
neglected, so distorted, so misunderstood.” In 1947, he saw the
publication of Our Lady of Fatima, the most popular of his books, and the most popular account in English of the Fatima apparitions.
Our Lady of Fatima was no pious supplement to William Thomas
Walsh’s lifework, but its logical climax. Those anti-Church movements
that he had traced through five centuries to our present evil day led
inexorably to Our Lady’s warnings of divine vengeance about to fall upon
the world. And Walsh had even foreseen the shape of this vengeance. He
had predicted One World united in Socialism, in opposition to the
catholic unity of the Church. Our Lady of Fatima warned that the
Communism of Russia would assuredly dominate the entire world,
devastating the Church at the same time, unless her demands were heeded.
* * * * *
It would be false to suggest that one can read every page of William
Thomas Walsh without ever encountering any weaknesses. What can be
affirmed is that the back-tracking, compromising statements, though
present, are not essential to his arguments, nor do they follow from
them. It is as though he had descended, momentarily, from the heights of
militant Catholic utterance out of sheer dismay at finding himself
there all alone.
Thus, in any appreciation of William Thomas Walsh, there is inevitably
bound up a contrary and stern indictment of those who by vocation and
the grace of their office should have joined him — indeed, should have
led him — in the battle against the Church’s enemies. That these leaders
failed in their obligation is the central reality, and tragedy, of our
times. It is a tragedy in which all American Catholics have accepted a
role, and which seems to be moving rapidly toward its climax.
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An Interesting e-mail exchange from MHFM:
What must?
This is indeed
disturbing. What must an average catholic, as myself, is to do if nothing else
but the novus ordo is available? Is it preferable not to attend a church at all?
Is that truly what you want me to do? I have an issue with that. How to obtain
the eucharist then? Do you know you áre causing great concern, dissention and
confusión? What is the solution you offer to the problem you present? I live
outside the US. I live in tijuana, baja, in México. Where do i go?
Mo Elrawi
MHFM: Yes, if the only
option is the New Mass, you must stay home. There is no obligation to attend Mass on Sunday
when the Church does not provide you with a fully Catholic option in your area.
There were many situations in Church history in which Catholics had nowhere to
attend Mass or receive the Eucharist.
There are places to make a confession today, but few options for Communion, as
our file on where to receive sacraments covers.
The New Mass is a
non-Catholic service that must be avoided under pain of grave sin. With regard to the solution to the
problem, you need to embrace and practice the true Catholic faith if you want to
be saved. The material explains how to do that.
See the sections of our website on 'the steps to convert' and 'where to
receive sacraments'. We are in the Great
Apostasy.
Also, before receiving
a sacrament, one must reach the point where one is committed never to attend the
New Mass again, rejects the Vatican II sect and its antipopes as non-Catholic,
believes in Outside the Church There is No Salvation without exception (no
“baptism of desire”, no salvation for those “invincibly ignorant” of the
Catholic faith), rejects NFP, won’t support any heretical priests, etc. With regard to your statement about 'concern,
dissension, and confusion', it is not our material, but adherence to the false
and heretical Vatican II sect that causes confusion and dissent from the
Magisterium. The material we present
brings hope, clarity and knowledge about how to attain salvation in the
true Catholic faith. It's also important
to pray 15 decades of the Rosary each day and the Hail Mary frequently. You
should look at more of the material and videos to get the full picture of what's
happening.
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Sunday 16 July, 2017. Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
An Interesting E-Exchange from MHFM:
Reading, Watching
I've been reading your
materials and watching your videos for a few months. I'm still making up my mind
but I am increasingly learning that the Sedevacantist position is the only sane
& rational one. To wit, I attended a Vatican II 'mass' tonight. I didn't take
'Communion' I simply attended to see if what you claim is true. Not that I doubt
you but I am something of a Doubting Thomas -- seeing is believing. Well, you
were proven 100% correct on ALL accounts. The 'altar' looked like a Masonic
Lodge (presider chairs, a table instead of an altar, the 'tabernacle' off to the
side) there were women involved and all over the 'altar'. Not to mention most of
the women attending 15-30 years of age were dressed VERY immodestly as were some
of the men. I'd never seen so many Hawaiian shirts, shorts and the like outside
of a casual Friday day at the office. The homily of the priest was almost
straight out of Manly P. Hall. The 'priest' -- who looked old enough to have
been ordained before Vatican II -- actually used the term 'Cosmic Christ' and
held it up as a 'catholic' belief not to mention extolling the 'virtues' of
Socialism and Communism - just not the atheistic Soviet model. The whole service
seemed hollow, tepid yet insidious. I'll never attend another 'mass' at that
church or any other.
Iwanttobelieve7
MHFM: Yes, it’s crucial
that you never go to the New Mass again. We recommend that you continue to look
over the material, pray 15 decades of the Rosary each day, and pray the Hail
Mary frequently. In addition to the
videos that explain how this situation was prophesied, we recommend that you
watch some of the key foundational videos on each of the antipopes. They demonstrate what complete and total
apostates they were. We will list a
few of those videos below. We also
have sections in writing on those issues.
Generally speaking, once people grasp what utter apostates and non-Catholics the
Vatican II antipopes are – once they see the overwhelming evidence of their
heresies and apostasy, which is in our material – the true position becomes
quite obvious. The problem with many people is that they
lack the grace or attention span to even look at the evidence against the
Vatican II antipopes, and they remain in the Counter Church or in false
positions as a result. We also
recommend that you consult our material on the heresies of Vatican II.
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http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/news/cnn-simply-jewish-news-network/#.WYFOGOlLeZM
MHFM: Yes, we believe so. It’s as if they are trying to shield themselves from destruction under the cover of the rainbow (the sign of the promise that God would never destroy the entire world again through a flood), when God says: Okay, I can just destroy the world in another way (e.g. by fire). Scripture specifically tells us that the end is associated with a destruction by fire.
The fact that the rainbow is being used in connection with a totally abominable movement and abominable activity that has gone mainstream and been embraced across the world (the ‘LGBTQ’ movement), activity for which God is known to destroy and eliminate through fire (e.g. Sodom and Gomorrah), is another indication of where we are in the End Times – that is, the time shortly before God will destroy and cleanse the Earth by fire.