Compiled from The Point (1952–1959), Saint Benedict Center, Cambridge, MA
Prefatory Note
The following passages are drawn verbatim from The Point, the monthly newsletter edited under Fr. Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M., at Saint Benedict Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The newsletter ran from 1952 to 1959. Each quotation is cited by month and year of issue.
Scholarly context: Fr. Feeney (1897–1978) was a Jesuit poet and controversialist known primarily for his strict interpretation of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. He was excommunicated in 1953 (later reconciled to the Church without abjuring his theological positions in 1972). His writings on the Jewish question — which he and his community considered a theological and civilizational issue — belong to the long tradition of Catholic Adversus Judaeos literature, though they often cross from theological anti-Judaism into what contemporary scholars and Church documents would classify as antisemitism. The compiler does not endorse these views; they are presented for scholarly and historical analysis.
All quotations are taken directly from: https://fatherfeeney.wordpress.com/
I. DEICIDE — The Charge That the Jews Killed God
1. The Blood-Curse Invoked (July 1952)
In “Pointers,” critiquing Archbishop Haas for addressing B’nai B’rith without mentioning the Passion:
“Notably missing from Bishop Haas’ talk was any reference to the Divine Person Who, two thousand years ago, looked down upon B’nai B’rith’s ancestors, a howling Jerusalem mob who accepted the consequences of murdering God when they shouted, ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children.'”
— The Point, July 1952
2. “Crucify Him! … His blood be upon us” (October 1955)
From the handbill text distributed during the Brandeis University protest, as quoted in full within the article:
“You are thus being asked to approve a scheme whereby Our Lord will be turned over to that people which for 2,000 years has rejected, sneered at, reviled, and desecrated Him in the Blessed Sacrament. Catholics of Boston: In the name of the Immaculate Mother of God, this must not happen! Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament must not be betrayed again into the hands of that people who cried out, ‘Crucify Him! Crucify Him! … His blood be upon us and upon our children.'”
— The Point, October 1955
3. “Our Lord was again placed within the grasp of His crucifiers” (October 1955)
“The next few days brought contented cacklings from the Boston press, and gloating public statements by Brandeis officials. The following Sunday brought more than 300 young Jews to Boston Commons, where they attempted to break up the Center’s outdoor meeting, shouting foul obscenities in the midst of the prayers, spitting on the life-size crucifix and the picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe — all of which served only to sharpen and sustain the bitter realization of that Friday (that day which was so fittingly Friday) when Our Lord was again placed within the grasp of His crucifiers.”
— The Point, October 1955
4. The “Deicide Race” (September 1955)
“…laws that will forbid a Christian to exclude from his hotel, his payroll, or his neighborhood club, any member of that deicide race which God has so emphatically rejected and cursed.”
— The Point, September 1955
5. The Tradition of “His Crucifiers” (October 1955)
“The Jews knew that those basic doctrines which had given rise to and sustained the Church’s anti-Jewish policies were still held, still taught. And they knew, consequently, that whatever surface cordiality might presently appear, at heart the Church believes as she believed in the time of Saint John Chrysostom, who is called ‘golden-mouthed’ on account of the doctrinal purity of his preaching, and who said: ‘The Jews have crucified the Son and rejected the Holy Ghost, and their souls are the abode of the Devil … It is not insignificant controversies which separate us, but the death of Christ.'”
— The Point, October 1955 (quoting St. John Chrysostom approvingly)
6. Saint Pius X on Deicide and Non-Recognition (April 1957)
Quoting Pope Saint Pius X’s response to Theodore Herzl:
“After listening quietly to the Zionist plan for restoring the Holy Land to the Jews, Pius X ‘answered in a stern and categorical manner: “We are unable to favor this movement. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem — but we could never sanction it. The ground of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church, I cannot answer you otherwise. The Jews have not recognized Our Lord; therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people.”‘”
— The Point, April 1957
7. Jerusalem — The Fruits of Crucifixion (April 1957)
On the Roman destruction of Jerusalem as divine punishment:
“It was less than forty years after the Crucifixion that Jerusalem quaked and collapsed under the force of Jesus’ fulfilled words. Roman armies under Titus slaughtered over a million Jews, dispersed the Jewish nation and demolished the Temple, in explicit resolution of Our Lord’s threat that ‘there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone.'”
— The Point, April 1957
8. Our Lord’s Prophecy of Dispersion (April 1957)
“The lesson started with Our Lord’s own prophecy that the obstinate Jews to whom He was speaking would ‘fall by the edge of the sword and be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles …'”
— The Point, April 1957
9. The Root of the Jewish “Tradition” (May 1955)
Tracing the anti-Christian spirit to the Sanhedrin:
“It is not, however, a fleeting ‘intellectual experiment.’ For what is going on at Brandeis is old. It has sprung, however awkward and unsteady, from a long, long tradition — that ubiquitous tradition which must answer for the Loyalists in Spain, the Marxists in Russia, the Carbonari in Italy, the Freemasons in France, the Illuminati in Germany; that unbroken tradition which reaches back nineteen hundred years to find its root and sustenance in a howling Jerusalem mob which cried, ‘His blood be upon us and upon our children!'”
— The Point, May 1955
10. “Bring on Christ again and we’ll crucify Him again” (October 1955)
Reporting speech from Jewish counter-protesters:
“They were from the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and from a local ghetto-gang called the ‘Hipsters’ — groups which had often turned up as hecklers at Saint Benedict Center’s Sunday afternoon talks on Boston Common, where they sounded forth with remarks like the one by YMHA’s Bill Klein: ‘Bring on Christ again and we’ll crucify Him again.'”
— The Point, October 1955
II. SUPERSESSIONISM — The Old Covenant Superseded, the Jews Rejected
11. “He is no longer their Father” — Saint Cyprian (October 1957)
“This is the source and sustenance of the supernatural brotherhood which for nineteen hundred years has faced the enmity of the Jews. For Catholic brotherhood presupposes that truth which the great Martyr-Bishop of Carthage, Saint Cyprian, set forth in his treatise on the Our Father: ‘We who are Christians say, “Our Father,” in reproach of the Jews because He is no longer their Father — since they have abandoned Him — and has become ours. A sinful people cannot enjoy sonship. Only those who have received remission of sins are given the name of son and promised eternity by the Lord.'”
— The Point, October 1957 (quoting St. Cyprian approvingly)
12. God Has “Irrevocably” Taken Jerusalem from the Jews (April 1957)
“A couple of generations later, around the year 132 A.D., the Jews tried hard to regain their rule over Jerusalem … A law was enforced which prohibited all Jews from residing in this capital which God had once given them, and which God had now irrevocably taken away.”
— The Point, April 1957
13. King David’s Prophecy Fulfilled (April 1957)
“…a stark truth — that God has turned aside from the people who rejected His Divine Son, that He has blotted their name out of the book of the living (as King David foretold He would) and that He has given over the holy city of the Old Testament to the love and prayers of His New Testament, Gentile faithful.”
— The Point, April 1957
14. The Curse of Rejection (November 1956)
“The Church’s explanation of this phenomenon is, of course, that it springs, directly and inevitably, from the curse which the Jews called down on their race when they rejected and crucified Christ.”
— The Point, November 1956
15. Papal Definition: Jews Cannot Be Saved Outside the Church (November 1956)
Quoting Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino (1441):
“The most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire ‘which was prepared for the devil and his angels,’ unless before death they are joined with her…”
— The Point, November 1956
16. Saint Peter Canisius on Jews and Salvation (November 1956)
Quoting Saint Peter Canisius, S.J., Catechism:
“Outside this communion (as outside the ark of Noe) there is absolutely no salvation for mortals: not to Jews or pagans, who never received the Faith of the Church; not to heretics who, having received it, forsook or corrupted it; not to schismatics who left the peace and unity of the Church…”
— The Point, November 1956
17. Pope Pius VII: “Jewish Perfidy” (November 1956; also October 1957)
Quoting Pope Pius VII:
“By the fact that freedom of all forms of worship is proclaimed, truth is confused with error, and the Holy and Immaculate Spouse of Christ, outside of which there is no salvation, is placed on the same level as heretical sects and even as Jewish perfidy!”
— The Point, November 1956 (repeated in October 1957)
18. Convert’s Abjuration — Jews Excluded from Christ’s Covenant (November 1956)
Quoting the traditional Rite of Abjuration of Heresy for converts:
“I, _____, having before me the holy Gospels which I touch with my hand, and knowing that no one can be saved without that Faith which the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church holds, believes and teaches… I believe the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Roman Church to be the only and true Church established on earth by Jesus Christ, to which I submit myself with my whole soul. I believe all the articles of Faith that she proposes to my belief and I reject and condemn all that she rejects and condemns… With a sincere heart, therefore, and with unfeigned faith, I detest and abjure every error, heresy, and sect opposed to the said Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Roman Church.”
— The Point, November 1956
19. Saint Augustine on the Impossibility of Jewish Salvation (November 1956)
Quoting Saint Augustine:
“No man can find salvation save in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church he can find everything except salvation. He can have dignities, he can have the Sacraments, can sing ‘Alleluia,’ answer ‘Amen,’ accept the Gospels, have faith in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and preach it, too, but never, except in the Catholic Church, can he find salvation.”
— The Point, November 1956
20. “Jewish Blood is Much Stronger … Than the Waters of Baptism” (October 1957)
“In retrospect, the number of Jews who have availed themselves of this generosity of the Church has been small, indeed. And of this small number, the unashamed majority have been converts seeking some personal advantage; or worse, seeking the positive disadvantage and ultimate destruction of the Church. It was such wholesale perfidy of Jewish Catholics that introduced into the familiar reference of Christian nations the saying, ‘Blood is thicker than water’ — which originally meant, ‘Jewish blood is much stronger in a Jew than the waters of Baptism.'”
— The Point, October 1957
21. The Inquisition as Necessary Against “Marrano” Catholics (October 1957)
“Perhaps the most significant is the one which we touched on a few issues ago, when we spoke about the plague of Marrano (secret-Jew) Catholics in Spain, and the extreme means (the Inquisition) which was necessary to keep their influence from spreading. Encouragingly, the very brotherhood — Christian brotherhood — which the Spanish Jews sought to corrupt provided the strong and unified action which, in 1492, expelled them from the country.”
— The Point, October 1957
III. THEOLOGICAL ENMITY BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS
22. The “Enmity” Framed as Nineteen-Century Reality (October 1957)
“This is the source and sustenance of the supernatural brotherhood which for nineteen hundred years has faced the enmity of the Jews.”
— The Point, October 1957
23. “The Priest, the Minister, and the Rabbi” — Irreconcilable Difference (April 1953)
“…a rabbi who says that God is not Jesus, there awaits the warning of St. Paul: ‘Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.'”
— The Point, April 1953
24. The Church Has Always Regarded Jews as “Outcast, Perfidious, and Cursed” (October 1955)
“The Jews, too, were well aware that to have the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament under their jurisdiction was an accomplishment which their forebears, living in Catholic Europe, would have considered a wild, impossible dream. To ‘stop the Jews’ had been the Church’s vigilant concern throughout the centuries — and she had stopped them long before they were within reach of the sacred altar. Confining them in ghettos, depriving them of citizenship, forbidding them to move freely in Christian society, the Church had shown abundantly in practice and teaching that Jews were to be looked on as outcast, perfidious, and cursed.”
— The Point, October 1955
25. St. Hilary of Poitiers — Jews as Perpetual Threat (September 1955)
“We American Catholics do not need that learned bishop and theologian, Saint Hilary of Poitiers, to warn us (as he does in his Tractatus Mysteriorum) that ‘The Jews are always seething to slaughter the Christian people.’ Every day we are coming to see more clearly for ourselves how the Jews are maneuvering to destroy all trace of what is Christian in our land.”
— The Point, September 1955
26. Saint Gregory of Nyssa — Full Adversus Judaeos Catalogue (September 1955)
“…the saints had a lot on their side when they said (as Saint Gregory of Nyssa did in his famous sermon on the Resurrection) that the Jews are nothing more than, ‘Slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, adversaries of God, haters of God, men who show contempt for the law, foes of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, advocates of the devil, brood of vipers, slanderers, scoffers, men whose minds are in darkness, leaven of the Pharisees, assemblies of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners and haters of righteousness.'”
— The Point, September 1955 (quoting St. Gregory of Nyssa approvingly)
27. Saint John Chrysostom and Bossuet — “Jews, God Hates You!” (January 1956)
“These two, who had eloquence and the episcopacy in common, were likewise the sharers of a common sentiment toward the Jews. Saint Chrysostom, in a homily to his people, and Bossuet in an instruction to the Dauphin, both made the Church’s position imperishably clear with the statement, ‘Jews, God hates you!'”
— The Point, January 1956
28. St. Peter of Arbues and the Inquisition — A Catholic Martyr Killed by Jews (October 1952)
Quoting the Roman Martyrology directly:
“At Saragossa in Spain, of Saint Peter of Arbues, first Inquisitor of the Faith of the Kingdom of Aragon who was cruelly butchered by relapsed Jews for the sake of that Catholic Faith which he had so zealously protected by virtue of his office. Pope Pius IX added him to the list of Martyr Saints.”
And the editorial comment:
“Every September 17th the ache is intensified as Holy Mother Church celebrates the feast of the first Inquisitor, a man who carried on in such a way that the Jews killed him and the Pope canonized him.”
— The Point, October 1952
29. Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Jewish Badge (March 1954)
Quoting St. Thomas Aquinas’s letter to the Duchess of Brabant:
“And is it correct that all Jews in your realm should be obliged to bear some special sign to distinguish them from the Christians? To this the answer is easy and in conformity with the decision given by the General Council. Jews of both sexes and in all Christian lands should on all occasions be distinguished from other people by some particular dress.”
— The Point, March 1954
30. The Rabbinical Council Against Christmas — “Traditional, Predictable Jewish Pattern” (April 1953)
“When the Rabbinical Council of America came out against the observance of Christmas, we protested — but looked elsewhere for the real Jewish threat. These overt demonstrations of hatred for Jesus are of the traditional, the predictable, Protestant and Jewish patterns.”
— The Point, April 1953
31. The Jewish “New Testament” — Against Catholic Doctrine on Jewish Enmity (June 1955)
Citing Scripture against Jewish objections:
“Classed as even more offensive will be the New Testament, which records such overt anti-semitic sentiments as those of Our Lord when He calls the Jews the children of the devil (Jn. 8:44), and of Saint Paul when he says about the Jews that they are not pleasing to God and are the enemies of all men (I Thess. 2:15).”
— The Point, June 1955
IV. CRITICISM OF THE TALMUD
32. Pope Innocent IV’s Condemnation of the Talmud (January 1956)
“On Boston’s chief downtown street, the Jews have lately dedicated the ‘Associated Synagogues Building,’ whose street-level, store-front window boldly flaunts copies of the Talmud, the Jewish book so repeatedly condemned by the popes for containing, as Pope Innocent IV said, ‘every kind of vileness and blasphemy against Christian truth.'”
— The Point, January 1956
33. “Blatantly Talmudic” UN Health Program (June 1955)
“Measures called for by this blatantly Talmudic program include ‘population planning’ (a scheme whereby birth-control will be encouraged in some locales, fecundity rewarded in others); mass inoculations… the inducing of ‘painless death’ in incurables and the aged; and a vast plan for conducting Jewish investigations and prescribing Jewish remedies, with a view to attaining a Jewish conception of ‘mental health.'”
— The Point, June 1955
34. Talmudic Logic in the Supreme Court (September 1955)
On Justice Frankfurter’s ruling in the “Miracle Case”:
“He agreed that back in the Catholic days of Saint Thomas Aquinas the words ‘blasphemy’ and ‘sacrilege’ may have had a precise meaning, but today, he said, there is no definition on which we can agree. In his long written opinion, Jewish Justice Frankfurter concluded, with Talmudic logic, that one man’s blasphemy might well be another man’s art.”
— The Point, September 1955
35. Brandeis Commentary — Jewish Accusation of “Blasphemy” Against the Trinity (May 1955)
Quoting Commentary magazine (published by the American Jewish Committee):
“The division of the divinity into ‘Father’ and ‘Son’ splits the divine essence; it was and is regarded by the synagogue quite simply as blasphemy.”
— The Point, May 1955 (cited as a characteristic Jewish Talmudic position)
V. OPPOSITION TO ZIONISM AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL
36. Zionism as a “Messianic” Substitute for the True Messias (June 1955)
“The Jews are no longer waiting for the birth of a Jewish Savior. They are sighing after and plotting for the day when the Jewish race will at last come into its own, lording it over the world from the new world-capital, Jerusalem. It is as an instrument toward achieving this Zionistic goal that the Jews promote both the U. N. and its complementary international movement, Communism.”
— The Point, June 1955
37. The Founding of Israel — A Catholic Assessment (March 1956)
“On the night of May 14, 1948, the Jews of America staged a celebration. From New York to Los Angeles, great roaring throngs of them, waving strange flags and bellowing strange anthems, shoved and shouted their way through city streets.”
And on the pressure placed on President Truman:
“It all came about as the Jews had planned. Mr. Truman granted official recognition at 6:11 P. M., May 14, 1948. And the Jews kept their part of the bargain. The President was returned to office the following November.”
— The Point, March 1956
38. “Jewish Imperialism” and the Holy Places (March 1956)
“The prospect of American boys dying for the cause of Jewish imperialism is hardly a comforting one. It is eclipsed in the minds of American Catholics only by the more devastating prospect of what will happen to the Holy Land’s churches and shrines in those not-yet-Jewish areas which, in a future war, would pass into Jewish hands.”
And:
“The story of the Crucifixion comes to us with new and stark clarity this Lenten season, in the knowledge that the immediate path of Israeli expansion takes in all the sacred shrines of Our Lord’s Passion and Death, the Holy Places of the First Good Friday.”
— The Point, March 1956
39. Jewish Pledge of Loyalty to Israel Over America (March 1956)
Quoting the Young Men’s Hebrew Association of Washington Heights pledge:
“‘Here is Our Pledge, Israel: I pledge my loyalty to God, to the Torah and to the Jewish people and to the Jewish state.'”
With commentary:
“The young pretended-Americans who take this vow of loyalty to a foreign nation owe an enormous debt of gratitude to a top-notch Mason from Missouri.”
— The Point, March 1956
40. Justice Louis Brandeis on Jewish Nationhood (March 1956)
Quoting Jewish Justice Brandeis:
“‘Jews are a distinctive nationality,’ said Jewish Justice Louis Brandeis, ‘of which every Jew, whatever his country, his station, or his shade of belief, is necessarily a member.'”
With comment:
“The notion of America as a great melting pot, blending together all peoples and cultures, thus had to be modified with the significant exemption, ‘But Jews don’t melt.'”
— The Point, March 1956
41. Ben-Gurion’s War Policy (March 1956)
Quoting Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion:
“‘We have come a long way without peace. We can go a long way in the future without it.'”
— The Point, March 1956
42. Moses Hess: Rome and Jerusalem — Zionism’s Anti-Catholic Foundation (April 1957)
Quoting the Zionist founding text:
“‘Papal Rome,’ writes Hess, ‘symbolizes to the Jews an inexhaustible well of poison. It is only with the drying up of this source that Christian German anti-Semitism will die from lack of nourishment.'”
And:
“‘It is true that Christianity shed a certain glow during the dark ages of history … but its light only revealed the graves of the nations of antiquity. Christianity is, after all, a religion of death.'”
And:
“By the time he gets to page 138, Hess is confidently telling his Jewish patriots that ‘The Messianic Era is the present age.’ A ‘regeneration’ of the world has been going on since the ‘great’ French Revolution. Rome is already on the way down, he declares, and the job of the loyal Jew is to establish Jerusalem in its place. Christianity will be ‘finally replaced among the regenerated nations by a new historical cult. To this coming cult, Judaism alone holds the key.'”
— The Point, April 1957
43. Herzl’s Comment: “The Conflict Between Rome and Jerusalem” (April 1957)
Quoting Theodor Herzl’s Diaries after his audience with Pope St. Pius X:
“And to the Pope’s pointed words, Herzl adds in his Diaries the pointed comment: ‘The conflict between Rome and Jerusalem, represented by the one and the other of us, was once again under way.'”
— The Point, April 1957
44. Destruction of Catholic Shrines in the Holy Land (April 1957)
“Trying to calculate an incalculable loss, the Vatican has charged the Jews with ravaging Church property in the Holy Land at the rate of two million dollars’ worth a year. Targets of Jewish attack in Jerusalem have included the Cenacle, where Our Lord celebrated His Last Supper; the Convent of Mary Reparatrix, which was dynamited during the night while six nuns were known to be still inside; and the Church of the Dormition, which marks the venerated place of Our Lady’s Death, and which the Jews turned first into an artillery post and then into a dance hall for the Jewish army.”
— The Point, April 1957
45. Archbishop Hakim on Arab Expulsion from the Holy Land (April 1957)
“As Archbishop Hakim of Galilee recently insisted, the main reason why one million Arabs have fled from their life-long homes in the Holy Land is that they ‘were terrorized out by the Israelis.'”
— The Point, April 1957
46. Every Pope of the Twentieth Century Against Zionism (April 1957)
“Every Pope of this century has followed Pius X’s example of denouncing and warning against the Jews’ ambition to usurp the Holy Land. But the Jews have not been stopped.”
— The Point, April 1957
VI. THE INTERFAITH MOVEMENT AS A JEWISH STRATAGEM TO DESTROY CATHOLIC DOGMA
47. The Goal of Interfaith: Denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (November 1956)
“Any participation in Interfaith involves a tacit but clear denial of this belief in the Church’s singularity. It involves the assumption that there exists a supreme, transcendent ‘Religion’ with three aspects, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism, which are all three on a par, both naturally and supernaturally.”
And quoting Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan:
“The very first obstacle in the way of ‘intergroup goodwill,’ says the Rabbi, is the mistaken belief that, ‘There can be only one true method of salvation for all human beings, regardless of their group affiliations.’ Driving this point home, Kaplan then continues, ‘As the United Nations should call for the surrender of absoluteness in national sovereignty, so should the World Parliament of Religions call for the renunciation by every religious communion of any claim to exclusive possession of salvation.'”
— The Point, November 1956
48. The Stated Jewish Goal: Dissolution of All Religions into “Greater Judaism” (November 1956)
Quoting the Jewish World of London (February 9, 1883):
“‘The dispersion of the Jews has rendered them a cosmopolitan people. They are the only cosmopolitan people, and in this capacity must act and are acting as a solvent of national and racial differences. The great ideal of Judaism is not that Jews shall be allowed to flock together one day in some hole-in-the-corner fashion, for, if not tribal, at any rate separatist objects, but that the whole world shall be imbued with Jewish teachings, and that in a universal Brotherhood of Nations — a greater Judaism, in fact — all the separate races and religions shall disappear.'”
— The Point, November 1956
49. Interfaith’s True Intent: To Revise the Crucifixion Narrative (October 1957)
Quoting the American Jewish Yearbook (Vol. 50) on the 1949 World Brotherhood Congress:
“‘The conference unanimously agreed on the necessity for a permanent organization and on a proposal to revise Christian religious teaching, particularly the story of the Crucifixion, in such a manner as to reduce the danger of implanting anti-semitism in the minds of the young.'”
— The Point, October 1957
50. Fr. Edward Brophy’s Canonical Condemnation of Brotherhood (October 1957)
Quoting Fr. Edward Brophy’s booklet, The Brotherhood Religion:
“‘As conceived by its authors and applied by its leaders, Brotherhood is condemned by Catholic Theology, by Canon Law and by Popes Pius VII, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius XI, and Pius XII … Hence, none but ignorant and disloyal Catholics yield to the proposals of Brotherhood, notwithstanding the seductive forms in which they may be presented. Catholics are bound in conscience to abstain from Brotherhood activities. They are not permitted to remain silent. They are obliged to protest against Brotherhood’s vain pretensions to brush aside Christianism. They are required to oppose its harmful incursions upon Christianity and Christian civilization. They must repress its blasphemies against Christ and His Religion.'”
— The Point, October 1957
51. The Genocide Convention as a Tool Against the Crucifix (June 1955)
“And the Jews do not plan to use Genocide solely as a negative protection. They are counting on it as a positive weapon in their continual struggle against the Church. For by means of Genocide restrictions, the Jews will be able to get rid of much that is essential Christianity, on the score that it leads to, or is openly, ‘anti-semitism.’ For example: Crucifixes, with their reminder to Christians that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ, will be done away with as ‘incitements’ to Genocide.”
— The Point, June 1955
52. Archbishop Hughes’s Apostolic Mission — Explicitly Including Jews (June 1955)
Quoting Archbishop Hughes of New York, 1850:
“‘Everybody should know that we have as our mission to convert the world — including the inhabitants of the United States — the people of the cities and the people of the country, the officers of the Navy and the Marines, the commanders of the Army, the Legislators, the Senate, the Cabinet, the President, and all.'”
With Feeney’s application:
“This, very briefly, is our self-interested motive in joining the current battle against the United Nations, an organization which demands the scrapping of our country’s sovereignty, the undermining of our Constitution, and the ‘ultimate halting of all sectarian proselytism,’ a recently coined phrase, of Semitic origin, which means that once the U.N. fully takes over, Catholic priests will have to stop insisting to their neighbors that Baptism, the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady, and the Pope are necessary salvational concerns.”
— The Point, June 1955
VII. MASONIC-JEWISH INTERNATIONALISM VS. CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION
53. The Medieval Order vs. the “Masonic-Jewish Proposal” (March 1954)
“We are left with a split world which has decided that for survival it must adopt the Masonic-Jewish proposal, ‘Internationalism’ — forming leagues, writing charters, building buildings, hoping that, thereby, men of different countries will believe they are brothers, and will act that way.”
And:
“Our concern is rather this: that there are men of the Catholic Faith, prelates even, who are actually promoting Masonic-Jewish Internationalism.”
— The Point, March 1954
54. The French Revolution and Jewish Emancipation (October 1957)
“Yet, Voltaire and his fellow-Freemasons, though evangelists of the Brotherhood cult, were not to be its chief apostles. That role would be taken by a people to appear unleashed upon the Christian scene as one dread consequence of the Mason-mastered French Revolution of 1789. Within 150 years from the time they were set free of the Church’s restrictions, this people — the Jews — were to become the virtual lords of all avenues of public communication.”
— The Point, October 1957
55. Brotherhood as a “Judaeo-Masonic” Cult (October 1957)
“The Catholic Church in the U.S. is being turned into a subsidiary of the super-religion, Brotherhood. The public utterances of Catholics are becoming indistinguishable from those of non-Catholic Americans; instead of the dogmas of their Faith, they proclaim the platitudes of the Judaeo-Masonic cult.”
— The Point, October 1957
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS THEOLOGICAL ANTI-JUDAISM
56. The “Rabbit” Hillel — Head of the Sanhedrin During the Slaughter of the Innocents (May 1955)
“…Dr. Sachar has resolved upon a rededication of himself to the spirit and ideals of that Rabbi Hillel for whom the Hillel movement was named — the rabbi who, until his death in 10 A.D., was head of the Jerusalem sanhedrin and who was, as such, the chief promoter of King Herod’s ‘slaughter of the Holy Innocents,’ the first of the Jewish attempts to get rid of Jesus.”
— The Point, May 1955
57. St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Call to Defend the Holy Land (April 1957)
“‘Will you allow the infidels to contemplate in peace the ravages they have committed?’ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux had asked that world in the twelfth century. ‘The Living God has charged me to declare to you that He will punish them who will not avenge Him against His enemies.'”
— The Point, April 1957
58. Archbishop Cushing — “Not Telling Jews What Our Lord Said” (October 1952)
On Archbishop Cushing’s approach:
“He never indicates that what Our Lord said about the necessity of Baptism applies to the Jews he is talking to; never indicates that what Our Lord said about the necessity of receiving His Body and Blood applies to the Protestants he is talking to.”
And quoting Cushing:
“To the Jews, who have for 2,000 years proclaimed their rejection of the Christ he professes to love, the Archbishop offers this expression of muddled charity: ‘No man could have my faith concerning Christ … without loving Him and the people who produced Him, the Jews.'”
— The Point, October 1952
59. The Simulation of Jewish “Dedication” (October 1955)
After the dedication of the Brandeis Chapel, on receiving a mocking phone call:
“Shortly after 10 AM on Friday, the telephone rang at Saint Benedict Center. On the other end of the line a mockingly musical voice said, ‘We have your Jesus now!'”
— The Point, October 1955
60. “We Cannot Recognize the Jewish People” — The Theological Principle (April 1957)
Restating the principle of St. Pius X as a binding ecclesial norm:
“The words that Saint Pius X spoke to Theodore Herzl — ‘We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem …’ — have been manifestly, tragically prophetic. Every Pope of this century has followed Pius X’s example of denouncing and warning against the Jews’ ambition to usurp the Holy Land.”
— The Point, April 1957
End of Compilation
Source
All quotations taken from: Father Feeney’s The Point, https://fatherfeeney.wordpress.com/ (1952–1959 archive).
Recommended Secondary Literature
- John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (Harvard University Press, 2012)
- Robert Michael, A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- Catherine Goddard Clarke, The Loyolas and the Cabots (Ravengate Press, 1950)
- Gavin Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism (University of California Press, 1990)
- Nostra Aetate (Vatican II Declaration, 1965) — the conciliar reversal of many positions reflected above