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Fr. Feeney FAQ
Hitler greets a cardinal 2. Was Fr. Feeney Anti-Semitic? 3. Did Fr. Feeney Support Hatred? 4. Did Fr. Feeney “Deny the
Holocaust”? Fr. Leonard Feeney would probably be considered a
racist by most people today, not only because of his beliefs about the Jews –
which we shall come to – but with regard to the mixing of the Black and White
races in the US. Far from opposing racial segregation in the US, he
complained that the Jews were “indiscriminately mixing up black and white
families” in housing projects and “creating jungles of crime.” “It was immediately evident to most Jews that
there were tremendous advantages in putting lots of Gentile families under
one roof and having many such identical roofs congregated in a small area.
For those who needed more convincing, the first such assemblages (called by
the innocuous name “housing projects”) provided the clincher. Placing the
inhabitants in compact, uniform stalls; indiscriminately mixing up black
and white families; compelling them to lead a kind of life that strips
off the properties and conventions of civilized man — these measures have
proven their effectiveness. Housing projects are openly, notoriously, jungles
of crime, cruelty, depravity, and vice. As enforcers of Talmudic theology,
they are unbeatable.” (Fr. Leonard Feeney, Designs
of the Jews on Art and Architecture) The Roman Catholic Church in America historically
taught race-mixing is extremely undesirable. [add Glenn quote] 2. Was Fr. Feeney
Anti-Semitic? Fr. Feeney was one of the most famous US
anti-Semites of his generation. That is not to say that he had a problem with
Semites generally, it was Jews that he was concerned about. He explained his
prolonged insistence on “the problem of the Jews” and “their malice” in the
penultimate edition of his monthly publication The Point. “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 counselled 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.” (Fr. Leonard Feeney, The
Point, February 1959) Fr. Feeney also preached against the Jews on Boston
Common through the 1950s. He enjoyed calling them “kikes” and stating that he
“hates” them. A Catholic journalist Grace Uberti
recorded some of his statements, some of which are reproduced in Transcending
Boundaries: Boston’s Catholics and Jews, 1929-1965 by Jenny Goldstein. “The Jews have taken over this city.” (14
September 1952) “Every Protestant hates the Jews. Harvard loathes
Jews. That is why they got a new President – to keep the Jews away. I don’t
hate Jews for the reason he hates them. I hate them because they hate Jesus.
They hate Jesus because they are JEWS!” (9 August 1953) “Those kikes are from Hillel
House. I warn you of what the Jews are going to do to the Catholic City of
Boston.” (31 July 1955) Br. Bernard, was one of
the three MICM brothers who spoke publicly with Father Feeney almost every
Sunday on Boston Common for seven years, when several thousand listeners were
usually in attendance. He recounted in My
Recollections of Boston Common how Fr. Feeney’s Saint Benedict Center trained him to speak about the Jews each Sunday,
and some of the riots that the Center adherents
were involved in with them. “Every Sunday I gave forth on the Jews and what
they were up to, and also the traditional Catholic position on the Jewish
problem, from Scripture and from history. I also used many of the Jews’ own
statements. The Talmudic teachings about Jesus and Mary I often recounted
because of my first hand conversations with my Jewish friend Maxwell Lazarus.
We were both students at Brookline High School, a 90% Jewish Public High
School in Massachusetts from which I graduated. I liked to give lists of the
Jewish Communists ruling the countries behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s.
I also kept the crowd up to date with the names of Jewish traitors and spies
in our own country. I had memorized the dates on which every country in
Europe had expelled the Jews to protect the Church and to return civil order. “Another favorite
subject was the final destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 363
under Julian the Apostate. I told how fire came up out of the earth to make
rebuilding impossible. I had many quotes from Jewish authors concerning the
continuing struggle between Rome and Jerusalem. The Jews proclaimed, ‘Rome
must be destroyed before Jerusalem can be the center
of a world religion and courts of justice.’ “I drew from history to demonstrate the unceasing
efforts of the Jews to destroy the Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic
Church.” 3. Did Fr. Feeney Support
Hatred? We have just seen that Fr. Feeney publicly
professed his hatred for the Jews on Boston Common. He was quoted in Time
Magazine as shouting there, “I preach hatred” (“I Preach Hatred”, Time, October 13, 1952.) The
Bible also preaches that hatred is a good thing in appropriate circumstances. 4. Did Fr. Feeney “Deny
the Holocaust”? Fr. Feeney would probably be accused of “denying
the Holocaust”. He demonstrated in the April 1956 edition of The Point
that it is normal for the Jews to be slaughtered all over the place and he was
careful to note that it is but a Jewish “claim” that the Nazis were the
“bloodiest” in their regard. “The usual history text which sets out to tell
the story of the Jews over the past 2,000 years becomes, in effect, a
repetitious catalogue of one mass slaughter after another. For, since the
dispersion of the year 70, when more than a million Jews were left dead in
the streets of Jerusalem, wholesale death — the riot and then the pogrom —
has followed the Jew down each new path of his wanderings. “The total number of Jews put to death under the
authority of the later Roman Empire has never been tabulated to the Jews’
satisfaction. In one three-year period (132-135) 500,000 Middle East Jews
fell before Roman swords. And each succeeding age, down to our own day, has
left a similar record behind it. “The year 523 saw thousands of Jews slaughtered
by Christian Abyssinians in Yemen. The Mohammedan
Caliph of Damascus took a comparable toll in the early 700’s. The first days
of the Crusades brought death to numberless Jewish communities in Central
Europe, and when Jerusalem was finally taken by the Christian armies in 1099,
the city’s Jewish inhabitants died in the flames of the principal synagogue.
The century following saw pogroms in many countries, the most extensive being
those of Mohammedan Spain, of France, and of
England. “Christian Spain and England both started off the
next century with slaughters of the Jews, and Germany concluded it with the
pogroms of 1283 and 1298. The year 1321 brought anti-Jewish riots in France,
which were surpassed in intensity by those of Spain
in 1355. During the fourteenth century, in Germany alone, 300 entire
communities of Jews were destroyed. Early in the fifteenth century, all the
Jews of Salzburg were burned alive and, shortly after, the riots in Rome
provoked by the preaching of Saint John Capistrano forced all the Jews in the
city to barricade themselves in their houses. “The most notable Jewish slaughters of the l600’s
were those in Poland, where more than 200,000 were slain under the Cossack
leader, Chmielnicki. Such treatment for the Jews of
Eastern Europe (over half the world’s number at that time) continued into the
present century. During Russia’s anti-Jewish demonstrations of 1905, there
were 690 separate pogroms within one eleven-day period. And in the years that
followed, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Romania all
conducted extensive slaughters of their respective Jews — until these
countries became incorporated into that potent anti-Jewish machine which
the Jews claim was the bloodiest of all time: the National-Socialist
Government of Germany.” |
