"Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini! Hosanna in Excelsis!", part six

Well, the October surprise, which is really no surprise at all, is here: Another escalation  of war in the Middle East is occurring thanks to the diabolical hatred that the Israeli Zionists and the Mohammedan leaders of various terrorist organizations have for each other.

As I have noted to many times in the past, men whose souls are captive to the devil by means of Original Sin and who have darkened their intellects and weakened wills even more by the objective effects of their Actual Sins even though they are entirely unaware of such sins are prone to hatred and violence, which only produces a never-ending cycle of more and more hatred and violence that is passed down from one generation to another.

The work of this website has always focused on root causes, so I am here to remind you that, mindful that all which occurs is the world is within the Providence of God, Who seeing all things from the beginning to the end of the world in an “instant now,” has known from all eternity that we are witnessing in the world now was going to happen as it is unfolding before us presently, the adversary inspired the false prophet Mohammed to rise up to foment a false religions with precepts that demand the death of infidels. At the same time, of course, the adversary inspired the Talmudic descendants of the Biblical Jews to gain support from Masonic world leaders to resettle in the Holy Land even though their Biblical ancestors were driven in the year 70 A.D. as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ used the pagan Romans to expel them for persistence in unbelief after He had granted them a thirty-seven year period of mercy for them to respond to the preaching of the Holy Apostles and be converted to the true Faith. Men must be driven into the waiting arms of the adversary the more and more that they defy the holy will of the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Holy Trinity, which drives them ever deeper into the pit of a cycle of hatred and violence that can only be remedied by their conversion to the true Faith, outside of which there is no salvation and without which there can be no true social order within nations and a just peace among them.

Thus, we have another large-scale conflict in the Middle East as the Israeli Defense Forces, after having destroyed most of the infrastructure in Gaza, dislocated most of its population to turn them into refugees in their own and, and having killing scores of thousands of innocent Palestinians whose only crime is that they were born as Arabs, are now starting to do in Lebanon in 2024 what they had done in West Beirut in 1982.

Under the command of the zealous anti-Arab racialist named Ariel Sharon, the then the Israeli Defense Minister, the Israeli Defense Forces brutally invaded and occupied Beirut from June 14, 1982, to August 21, 1982, as most of that fabled city’s infrastructure was blown to smithereens by the peace-loving Zionists in their efforts to destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization and to kill its leader, Yasir Arafat. Nearly five thousand Lebanese civilians were killed, the Palestine Liberation Organization was not destroyed, and Yasser Ararat died of natural causes long after signing the Oslo Accords with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on September 13, 1993, at the White House as a reluctant Rabin shook hands with Arafat upon agreeing to accords that could never stop those whose souls are steeped in the throes of Original Sin from viewing each other with hatred and suspicion. (A secular analysis of the Oslo Accords can be found at Why the Oslo Peace Process Failed. This analysis, even though very measured and balanced on a purely naturalistic level, failed to comprehend the simple fact that everyone in the Holy Land needs to convert to the Catholic Faith, offer forgiveness to one another, and exclaim in unison, “Benedictus qui venit in Nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis!”)

Time and time again since the end of World War II when the Zionists such as Menachem Begin, who was considered a terrorist by the first Prime Minister of  and Arabs such as Anwar Sedat were both imprisoned in King David prison as they were fighting different battles against the British control of Egypt and the Holy Land before the establishment of the Zionist State of Israel on May 14, 1948, the Israeli Defense Forces have specialized in the brutal displacement, imprisonment, torture and wanton killing of Palestinian Arabs, both Christian and Mohammedan, as well as feeling free to invade sovereign nations to destroy their infrastructure in the never-ending quest to root out terrorists of one kind of another who are just as contemptuous of the lives of innocent Israelis as most of the Talmudists who have governed Israel have been and continue to be of Arabs.

Such wanton killing has taken place without any regard to innocent civilians and their property, regardless of the lip service that Israeli leaders pay now and again to protecting civilians.

Consider the reckless regard for innocent life last month when the IDF sent signals to pagers that had been implanted so that they would explode to kill Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon without regard for who might be nearby when the pagers exploded:

Israel carried out part of its device attack targeting Hezbollah by concealing explosives inside the batteries of pagers brought into Lebanon, according to two high-ranking Lebanese security officials, who said the technology was so advanced that it was virtually undetectable.

Lebanese security officials watched a series of controlled explosions of some of the weaponized pagers, as investigations into who manufactured the wireless communication devices and how they made their way into Hezbollah’s pockets continued.

The pagers used in the controlled explosions were switched off at the time of the attack on September 17, which meant they did not receive the message that caused the compromised devices to detonate. The officials had a front-row seat to see just how catastrophic the blasts would have been to those carrying the devices and others around them.

Thousands of explosions struck Hezbollah members last week, targeting their pagers on Tuesday, and then walkie-talkies a day later. In all, the blasts killed at least 37 people, including some children, and injured nearly 3,000, according to Lebanese health authorities, many of them civilian bystanders. The attack blindsided the group, which had opted for analogue technologies after forgoing cell phones to avoid Israeli infiltration. . . .

Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an address last Thursday, said that the militant group had formed multiple internal investigative committees to get to the bottom of what happened, vowing a “reckoning” for those responsible.

“Regarding the explosions, we have reached an almost certain conclusion, but we still need some time to confirm it,” Nasrallah said. “This entire matter is under thorough investigation and review, from the company that sold the devices, to manufacturing, transportation, arrival in Lebanon, and distribution, all the way to the moment of the explosion.”

He added that while the apparent goal of the attack was to kill as many senior Hezbollah officials as possible, much of the leadership had been unaffected because they were carrying older pager models, suggesting that the form of communication has been used by the group for some time.

“The new ones were sent elsewhere,” he said, apparently referring to the batch of pagers a Lebanese security source told CNN was purchased by Hezbollah in recent months.

“These attacks represent a new development in warfare, where communication tools become weapons, simultaneously exploding across marketplaces, on street corners, and in homes as daily life unfolds,” UN human rights chief Volker Türk told the Security Council last Friday. “Authorities have reportedly dismantled unexploded devices in universities, banks, and hospitals.”

He added that simultaneously targeting thousands of people – whether civilians or armed forces – without the knowledge of who is in possession of the targeted devices and their surroundings at the time of the attack, violates international human rights law. (Israel concealed explosives inside batteries of pagers sold to Hezbollah, Lebanese officials say.)

Hassan Nasrallah, who was the current leader of a terrorist group that was formed in 1982 to fight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon to, as noted above, root out the Palestine Liberation Organization and kill Yasir Arafat, did not live long enough to start his investigation:

Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut, dealing a heavy blow to the Iran-backed group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks.

The Israeli military said on Saturday it had eliminated Nasrallah in the strike on the group's central command headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday. Hezbollah confirmed he had been killed, without saying how.

Nasrallah's death is a major blow to both Hezbollah and Iran, removing an influential ally who helped build Hezbollah into the linchpin of Tehran's network of allied groups in the Arab world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the killing of Nasrallah as a necessary step toward "changing the balance of power in the region for years to come."

"Nasrallah was not a terrorist, he was the terrorist," Netanyahu said in a statement, warning of challenging days ahead.

U.S. President Joe Biden described Nasrallah's death as a measure of justice for what he called his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis and Lebanese, and said the U.S. fully supported Israel's right to self-defence.

But when asked if an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon was inevitable, Biden told reporters on Saturday: "It's time for a ceasefire."

A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, deputy commander Abbas Nilforoushan, was also killed in the Israeli attacks in Beirut on Friday, Iranian media reported.

Sources told Reuters that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been moved to a secure location in Iran following Nasrallah's killing.

Iran later called for a United Nations Security Council meeting on Israel's actions in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region. It also warned against any attacks on its diplomatic facilities and representatives.

"Iran will not hesitate to exercise its inherent rights under international law to take every measure in defense of its vital national and security interests," Iran's U.N. ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, said in a letter to the 15-member council.

Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed 33 people and wounded 195 others on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said.

The strikes continued on Beirut's southern suburbs throughout the early evening on Saturday, according to a Reuters live broadcast, sending large clouds of smoke over the city.

One Israeli strike hit an industrial area 500 metres (yards) from Beirut airport buildings, a security source told Reuters. The airport continued to operate normally, according to Middle East Airlines boss Mohammad al-Hout.

More than 1,000 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded as a result of Israeli attacks in the past two weeks, the health ministry said, and about one million Lebanese have been displaced by the strikes, including hundreds of thousands since Friday, Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating the government's crisis response, told Reuters on Saturday.

Israel said it killed a senior Hezbollah intelligence official in a strike on southern Beirut, naming him as Hassan Khalil Yassin. Hezbollah has made no mention of this.

In Israel, air raid sirens sounded across the centre of the country - including Tel Aviv - and large bangs were heard after a missile was fired from Yemen and intercepted, according to the Israeli military.

A projectile fired from Lebanon crashed in the occupied West Bank, sparking fires, the Israeli military said. There were no casualties, according to the Israeli ambulance service.

Hezbollah said in a statement that it would continue its battle against Israel "in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defence of Lebanon and its steadfast and honourable people".

Iran's Khamenei said Nasrallah's death would be avenged and his path in fighting Israel would be pursued by other militants.

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said his country was facing the threat of danger, without mentioning the death of Nasrallah. His office later announced three days of mourning for the Hezbollah chief.

Hezbollah and Israel have been fighting a conflict in parallel with Israel's war against the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza since Hamas' attack on Israel last Oct. 7, in a cross-border confrontation that has sharply escalated in recent days.

Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV aired verses from the Koran after Nasrallah's death was announced. Bursts of gunfire were heard in Beirut and Lebanon's army deployed tanks in the city centre, according to Reuters witnesses.

The Israeli military said Nasrallah was eliminated in a "targeted strike" on the group's underground headquarters below a residential building in Dahiyeh - a Hezbollah-controlled southern suburb of Beirut. It said he was killed along with senior Hezbollah official Ali Karaki and other commanders.

Nasrallah's death is by far the largest blow in a traumatic fortnight for Hezbollah, starting with a deadly strike on thousands of communications devices used by its members.

Days later, Israel significantly ramped up airstrikes in Lebanon, killing several top Hezbollah commanders and hundreds of other people across wide areas of the country. (Israel kills Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in airstrike.)

Yes, over a thousand people killed and six thousand wounded just to take out Hezbollah fighters and their leader, Hassan Nasrallah, all of which was just a prelude to Israeli air strikes in Lebanon and their ongoing invasion of southern Lebanon, which is just a prelude to another IDF occupation of a sovereign country:

Huge consecutive blasts were heard across the Lebanese capital just after midnight local time, Reuters witnesses said, as the Israeli military carried out strikes on the city’s southern suburbs.

A massive smoke cloud could be seen in a Reuters live broadcast.

The Israeli military had warned an hour earlier that it would strike specific buildings in the typically densely populated southern suburbs, saying armed group Hezbollah was using them and telling residents to leave.

Many residents had fled the area in recent days after a spike in Israeli strikes but ended up sleeping in the streets of the city as shelters were full.

Families told Reuters they had struggled to find taxis to get them out of the district fast enough.

The Israel Defense Forces ordered the immediate evacuations of civilians from their homes in parts of southern Beirut.

The military shared pictures indicating particular buildings in the suburbs of Laylaki, Haret Hreik and Burj Al-Barajneh and ordered residents to leave.

"You are located near interests and facilities belonging to the terrorist Hezbollah, and therefore the IDF will act against them forcefully," IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X. "For your safety and the safety of your family, you must evacuate the buildings immediately, starting at a distance of no less than 500 meters."

Israel is planning a limited ground operation into Lebanon that could begin imminently, according to a U.S. official, a Biden administration official and a source familiar with the planning.

Israel informed the U.S. that the incursion into southern Lebanon could begin as early as today and that the intent is to push Hezbollah forces further away from the Israeli border and target their infrastructure, including stockpiles and weapons, the officials explained.

The offensive will be limited in duration and scope, possibly beginning as early as tonight and lasting for days, not weeks, they said, adding that the geographical reach will be limited.

Israel has begun probing operations already, the U.S. official said, including small-scale ground missions with their Special Forces. They have also deployed combat engineers and other troops for missions like breaching. The IDF currently has about five brigades forward deployed but not all of those are expected to move across the border, the official said.

The official stressed that the operation is intended to be limited in duration and scope, targeting Hezbollah stockpiles and weapons, including underground facilities.

Israel was planning for a larger invasion but after U.S. officials urged them to reconsider during extensive conversations over the weekend, they have decided to scale back, the administration and U.S. officials said.

But the Biden administration remains concerned the mission could expand, the administration official said, adding that President Joe Biden is still pushing for a cease-fire.

areas that have been attacked are flocking to Martyr’s Square in Beirut.

NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel reports that many there fear what happened in Gaza will happen to them as well.

A total of at least 95 people were killed and 172 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s southern regions, the eastern Bekaa Valley and Beirut in the past 24 hours, Lebanon’s health ministry said just after midnight in Lebanon. 

The vast majority were killed in the south, with 23 killed in the east and four in Beirut.

According to Lebanese government daily figures, 1,745 people have been killed and 8,767 wounded since cross-border fighting began nearly a year ago. (Israel-Hezbollah live updates: Ground operation in Lebanon could be imminent, officials say.)

Israel has begun its invasion of southern Lebanon, which US and Israeli officials say is a limited incursion aimed at taking out Hezbollah outposts.

After mobilizing its tanks and troops, and securing a wide stretch of the northern border on Monday, the IDF began conducting a series of “limited” ground raids into southern Lebanon before midnight local time.

The boots-on-the-ground operation will see Israeli soldiers take out Hezbollah’s tunnels, rocket launchers and weapons caches along the southern border, all in an attempt to halt the terror group’s ability to launch daily attacks over the border, Israeli officials said.

“In accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IDF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon,” the IDF said in a statement announcing the ground operation.

“These targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel,” the IDF statement said.

Just before the operation began, the Lebanese army withdrew, according to reports — leaving the terror group Hezbollah alone to face the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel said the primary goal of its operations against Hezhollah is to halt the daily rocket and missile attacks on towns and villages in the north of the Jewish state — and allow tens of thousands of displaced residents to return home.

The US was allegedly made aware of the plan just hours before it began, with President Joe Biden *telling reporters Monday afternoon that he was opposed to further escalation in the region.

“I’m more aware than you might know,” Biden said of the looming incursion, “and I’m comfortable with them stopping. We should have a cease-fire now.”

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said the US is being briefed on the incursion as it advises Israel to avoid “miscalculations” and “unintended consequences.”

“They have at this time, told us that those are limited operations focused on Hezbollah infrastructure near the border, but we’re in continuous conversations about it,” he said of the evolving situation.  

Biden and Miller’s concerns were echoed by several foreign ministers in the European Union, who backed the American president’s call for a cease-fire through diplomacy.

Israel, however, has maintained that a policy of “de-escalation through escalation” is the only way to end Hezbollah’s daily attacks on northern Israel that has left tens of thousands displaced since Oct. 8.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel’s latest operation was part of a new phase to end the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah.

“It will be a significant factor in changing the security situation and will allow us to complete the important part of the war’s goals, returning the residents to their homes,” Gallant said in a statement. (Israel begins ground invasion of Lebanon against Hezbollah.)

Additionally, the IDF is also bombing “targets” in Beirut that involve killing a lot of innocent civilians, including at least one American citizen:

• At least six people have been killed and eight wounded in Israeli air strikes targeting central Beirut overnight.
• A further 46 people were killed and 85 injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon in the previous 24 hours, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
• Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops are engaged in heavy fighting in southern Lebanon where Israel confirmed that at least eight of its soldiers have been killed in close combat so far.
• Israel intensified attacks on Gaza, killing dozens of people in separate strikes on shelters and schools, including an orphanage.
• In Gaza, at least 41,689 people have been killed and 96,625 injured in Israeli attacks since October 2023. In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people were taken captive.

A resident of the city of Dearborn in the US state of Michigan has been killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon, the Reuters news agency reports.

The US State Department said it was “deeply saddened” by the killing of Kamel Ahmad Jawad, whom a friend and a local group in his home town of Dearborn said was killed in an Israeli air strike, describing him as “one of the kindest and most generous humans”.

Jawad was in Lebanon taking care of his elderly mother, according to the Detroit News.

When asked about reports of an American killed in Lebanon, a State Department spokesperson said: “It’s our understanding that it was a legal permanent resident, not an American citizen [who was killed in Lebanon] but we obviously offer our sincerest condolences to the family.” (Live: Israel hits Beirut as Hezbollah battles Israeli army in south Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon News. A very good summary of Israeli barbarity was written by a Protestant pastor and columnist, Chuck Baldwin, who was the presidential candidate of the Constitution Party in 2008, can be read by clicking the following link: Trump: 'Make Israel Great Again', part of which is appended below the body of this article.)

This is all so very monstrous.

However, as has been noted the course of this ongoing series, this what must happen when men do not see the Divine impress in themselves or those they consider, whether justly or unjustly, and thus believe in the same kind of “final solution” that Adolf Hitler believed would “finish off” the European Jews once and for all and thus establish his reign of a thousand years. Such are the delusions of men who do not believe in the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus and/or everyone else who does not believe in, have access to, or can cooperate with Sanctifying Grace as members of the Catholic Church.

Mind you, as I have noted so many times before on this website, none of this justifies Mohammedan attacks upon innocent Israelis at any time for any reason, no, not even to displace the Israeli settlers in the occupied territories. To be sure, the leaders of Israeli provoke such attacks by permitting the settlers to displace Palestinians just as their predecessors had done in 1948 and again during the Six Day War in 1967 and the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and has been done with such reckless abandon in Gaza in the past year. However, it is nevertheless true that these problems are intractable until all in the Middle East are converted and exclaim, “Benedictus qui venit in nomini Domini. Hosanna in excelsis!”

As always, course we must bear ourselves kindly to all others and to treat them as we would treat Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the very Flesh. Our opposition to Talmudism and to the policies of the Zionist marauders who govern in Israel is in no way any kind of anti-Semitism as it is a fundamental Spiritual Work of Mercy to instruct the ignorant and to least pray for the conversion those who reject the Sacred Divinity of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Father Denis Fahey put the matter this way in n the Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation:

Yet all the propaganda about that display of Anti-Semitism should not have made Catholics forget the existence of age-long Jewish Naturalism or Anti-Supernaturalism. Forgetfulness of the disorder of Jewish Naturalistic opposition to Christ the King is keeping Catholics blind to the danger that is arising from the clever extension of the term “Anti-Semitism,” with all its war-connotation in the minds of the unthinking, to include any form of opposition to the Jewish Nation’s naturalistic aims. For the leaders of the Jewish Nation, to stand for the rights of Christ the King is logically to be “anti-Semitic.” (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

These words of wisdom apply to the cultural and political legal warfare that has been waged in this country by Judeo-Masonry. Indeed, as Father Fahey quotes from Pope Pius XI:

“Comprehending and merciful charity towards the erring,” he writes, “and even towards the contemptuous, does not mean and can not mean that you renounce in any way the proclaiming of, the insisting on, and the courageous defence of the truth and its free and unhindered application to the realities about you. The first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about him is service to the truth, the whole truth, the unmasking and refutation of error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself.” (Pope Pius XII, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 14, 1937) (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

Yes, we must always be about the business of serving the truth, the whole truth and of umasking and refuting error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself. This includes Talmudism and Modernism, and it includes Talmudism’s useful tool to create a “safe” form of Catholicism, Americanism.

Father Fahey explained that the Jews conceive of a “natural messias,” who is none other than Antichrist, which is why they must make upon the true Church and mock the true Messias, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ:

The decay in the social acceptance of the divine plan for ordered life, since the thirteenth century, has had for inevitable consequence the gradual disappearance of supernatural influences and ideals from the political and economic life of nations. This is the first result. There is a second. The elimination of the supernatural from public life is making smooth the path for the coming of the natural messias. “He that is not with Me is against me.” (St. Matt. XII, 30). The world is not standing still and the once Christian nations have to choose between returning to the integral truth of the Catholic Church and falling more and more fully under the yoke of those who are systematically preparing for the advent of the natural messias. The supernatural Messias proclaimed the supremacy of the Catholic Church, His Mystical Body, which is both supernatural and supranational and respectful of the natural qualities and particular rôles of all nations. The natural messias can only have for end the subjection of all nations to the Jewish nation; for the refusal of the Jews, whose national organisation had been set up by God to prepare for Christ, to accept the supranational Church of Christ, inevitably leads to their setting up their nation as the highest embodiment of the divine order.

Calvary has then a twofold aspect. It is at one and the same time the rejection of the supernatural Messias with His programme, which is summed up in the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ, and the proclamation of a programme to be accomplished by the natural messias to come. In the Mystical Body of Christ all nations are on equal footing, each nation aiming at the temporal prosperity of its subjects so as not only not to hinder but to favour their attaining their supernatural end—union with the Blessed Trinity in supernatural life. The natural messias to whom the Jews look forward is to bring happiness to the world by the imposition of Jewish domination. It cannot be otherwise, given their messianic aspirations. Our Lord asked them to be the heralds of a supranational kingdom. Their refusal meant that they elected instead to impose their national form on the world, and they have put all their intense energy and tenacity into the struggle for the organisation of the future messianic age. Thus when any nation turns against the supernatural Messias it will be pulled in the direction of subjection to the natural messias. Satan has a wide view of things. He will be quite prepared to utilise German naturalism against our divine Lord. There is laughter in hell when human beings succumb once more to the temptation of the Garden of Eden and put themselves in the place of God, whether the new divinity be the Jewish race or any other race.

The Jewish ideal is interpreted differently by different Jews. The orthodox Jews want to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild the temple and to reinstitute their worship, while awaiting the coming of a personal Messias. The non-orthodox or Reform Jews have departed from the central hope of Judaism by rejecting belief in a personal messiah.1But they believe in the advent of a messias in the sense of a messianic age which will come through the leadership and domination of their race. “In general the Jews,” writes the Jew, Bernard Lazare, in his well-known work, L’Antisémitisme, “even the revolutionaries, have kept the Jewish spirit, and if they have given up religion and faith, they have nevertheless been formed, thanks to their ancestry and education, by the influence of Jewish nationalism. This is true in a very special way of the Jewish revolutionaries who lived in the first half of this [nineteenth] century. Heinrich Heine and Karl Marx are two typical examples.” This is true also of the Jews of high finance, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Kahns, the Schiffs, etc., etc. They are one with their people in the ideal of the domination of the race and, therefore, in opposition to the supernatural life coming from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to them, attempted to turn aside the Jewish nation from its destined goal.

Does that mean that all Jews are bad men? Needless to say, it does not. There are Jews in whom may be seen excellent natural qualities, and the supernatural life of grace is poured out upon us all by our Lord, even upon those who reject Him. It does mean, however, that all Jews, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural life in society and will be an active ferment of naturalism. Let us take some examples from New York where the Jews are powerful. We read in the New York Jewish paper, Freiheit, of January 10th 1937: “According to the Jewish religion, the Pope is the enemy of the Jewish people by the very fact that he is the head of the Catholic Church. The Jewish religion is opposed to Christianity and to the Catholic Church in particular.” Again we find in the New York Jewish National Day of December 14th 1935: “The public schools must be kept clear of Christmas carols and other Christmas influences. We want all this Christmas propaganda stopped.”

Thus where the Jews are powerful, they openly attack the supernatural Messias and the supernatural life of grace which comes from Him. In countries where they are only advancing to power, they content themselves with de-supernaturalising the observances and customs which have sprung from acceptance of the supernatural Messias. When the latter process has been carried on for a sufficiently long time and Catholics have grown weak, the open attack on the observance of Sunday or Christmas Day, for example, can then be launched.

As an example of Jewish action in the elimination of the supernatural significance of a Christian observance, let us take the custom of exchanging Christmas cards. Christmas is in reality the anniversary of the birth of our Redeemer, of the Second Adam who restored the supernatural life of our souls. That is the real inner reason for our joy on that day. Families and friends come together to celebrate the coming amongst us as a little human child of Him in Whom we are one as members of His Mystical Body. The body is meant to have its share of the happiness too, because the Son of Man knows that we are human beings. Now the exchange of Christmas cards is meant to remind us of these great facts in their due relation. The supernatural significance of the great feast of the Nativity should of course be always prominent. Yet what do we find? Cards which show only holly and Christmas puddings have some relation to the feast, it is true, but not to the Christ Mass. Others with merely a row of dogs or a few birds have nothing to remind the recipient of what the rejoicing is for, while Yule tide greetings seem to refer to some pagan festival and to be preparing the way for a revival of paganism.

In this process of eliminating the supernatural Messias from the celebration of the anniversary of His birth, Messrs Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., the largest firm of Christmas card manufacturers, have certainly played a great part. “The Directors of this firm,” according to The Britisher of December 15th, 1937, “are registered as Gustave Tuck, Desmond Adolph Tuck and William Reginald Tuck, Bt., and the Secretary is a Mr. A. G. Jacobs. All three directors appear in the Communal Directory of the Jewish Year Book. Mr. Desmond Tuck is a warden of the Central Synagogue. Gustave Tuck is a member of the Jewish Board of Deputies Committee, a member of the Committee for the fund for German Jewry,” etc. This firm is not alone, but it has certainly been a great influence in propagating naturalism by fostering a naturalistic tone.

It will be useful for Irishmen to examine how much of Dublin’s real property has already passed into Jewish hands. Such a control must bring influence, and Jewish influence will operate against Christian social principles. Irish Catholics can see the advance of the elimination of the supernatural from public life, when a Jewish shop exhibits a card to the effect that the shop will be open all day on Christmas Day, and when Jewish professional men make appointments for Sunday morning. This disruption of the organisation of society based on the reality of the supernatural life of grace and on the vital significance of the Mass cannot proceed without disastrous effects on Catholics individually and as a body. For we know that it is only through the supernatural life which comes from our Lord that we can be good men according to the way which God requires and can correct the defects of our natural life. On the one hand, then, the increase of Jewish influence, with its inevitable naturalistic, that is, anti-supernatural, character, cannot take place without such disruption. On the other hand, we are exhorted to work for the return of society to Christ the King so that, instead of having to combat influences hostile to our supernatural life when we leave the Church after Mass, we shall on the contrary be aided by the current of life around us. Accordingly, Jewish naturalism renders conflict inevitable.

The Jews, as a nation, are objectively aiming at giving society a direction which is in complete opposition to the order God wants. It is possible that a member of the Jewish nation, who rejects our Lord, may have the supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul, and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively, the direction he is seeking to give to the world is opposed to God and to that life, and therefore is not good. If a Jew who rejects our Lord is good in the way God demands, it is in spite of the movement in which he and his nation are engaged. Our Lord Jesus Christ alone is the source of the goodness God wants to see in every human being, the goodness due to participation in the inner life of the Blessed Trinity. No Jew, in virtue of what he objectively stands for, is supernaturally good as God wants him to be.

Hence there would seem to be a regrettable confusion of thought in the article on The Jews in Ireland, which appeared in The Standard (Dublin), March 3rd 1939. The article stated: “The Standard stands for the practical application of Christian principles in the public life of Ireland . . . Doubtless, there are good Jews and bad Jews, just as there are good and bad non-Jews in every country. We may praise the good and reprobate the bad . . .”

The article in The Standard was perfectly correct in insisting upon the Christian principle of exclusion of hatred of the Jews as a race. The inculcation of that spirit of charity towards the Jews, however, is not the only Christian principle that has a bearing on the problem. To work for the return of society to Christ the King, and so secure the triumph of the supernatural spirit of the Mystical Body in social life, is surely a Christian principle. The Jewish nation in an organised entity opposed to the treatment of our fellow human beings as members of Christ. We, must, therefore, combat their naturalism. Some Catholics seem to forget that the Jews who, in their terrible opposition to God, were plotting the death of our Saviour were so “pious” and “God-fearing” and “good” that they would not go into the hall of Pilate’s palace, “that they might not be defiled but that they might eat the pasch.” (St. John XVIII, 28). Pilate had to yield to their scruples and go out to them, yet alas! they were intent on the most awful crime ever committed, the crime of deicide.

Jewish naturalism, then, is disruptive of all social organisation based upon the divinity of our Lord. This disruptive process inevitably leads to a reaction on the part of the subjects of Christ the King and thus renders social conflict unavoidable. But, besides these two harmful effects, there is a third. Jewish naturalism is injurious to the Jews themselves. Opposition to the supernatural life of grace that comes from our Lord and, consequently, to ordered submission to God, our Father, is disastrous for the Jewish soul and character. Writing of the ceremonies and rites of the Old Law, such as circumcision and the worship of the synagogue, St. Thomas says: “In like manner, the ceremonies of the Old Law prefigured Christ as having yet to be born and to suffer; whereas our sacraments signify Him as already born and having suffered. Consequently just as it would be a mortal sin now for anyone, in making a profession of faith, to say that Christ is yet to be born, which the fathers of old said devoutly and truthfully; so too, it would be a mortal sin now to observe those ceremonies which the fathers of old accomplished with devotion and fidelity. Such is the teaching of St. Augustine” (Ia IIae, Q. 103, a. 4). Objectively, therefore, the Jews as a nation put themselves against the ordered return to God, which can only be through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Their opposition has not only had dire consequences in preventing and retarding the world’s acceptance of Him, but also sad effects on themselves. The results of that ceaseless battle against order are becoming increasingly visible amongst them. The persistent rejection of the one mediator, Christ Jesus, in spite of abundant light and grace, is having its inescapable consequences. As their power in the material order grows, the Jews are ceasing to believe in the God of Israel and are falling a prey to pantheism in its various forms, Marxian and other.

Does it then follow that all Jews are pantheists? It does not. In all this reasoning about the Jewish nation we are dealing with what we may speak of as moral laws in a wide sense. We cannot deduce conclusions therefrom to every individual member of the race. We must take account of the play of human liberty under the influence of the grace that comes from the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the members of the race which He loves as His own. We must affirm, however, that the Jews as a nation and therefore the vast majority of their individual members, given the solidarity of their national organisation, will everywhere show themselves hostile to the supernatural life.

His Excellency Right Rev. Antonio Garcia, Bishop of Tuy, one of the signatories of the Collective Letter of the Spanish Hierarchy of July 1st 1937, has summed up in striking language the essential features of the present struggle in the world. He had a splendid opportunity of seeing the Spanish phase of it. Mgr. Garcia writes as follows: “It is evident that the present conflict is one of the most terrible wars waged by Antichrist, that is, by Judaism, against the Catholic Church and against Christ. And at this crisis in the history of the world, Jewry uses two formidable armies: one secret, namely that of Freemasonry; the other, open and avowed, with hands dripping with blood, that of the Communists and all the other associated bodies, Anarchists, Anarcho-Syndicalists, Socialists, as well as the auxiliary forces, Rotary, and Leagues of Benefaction . . . in which are preached the exclusion of Christ, of His morality and of His doctrine, or in which one hears at least that abstraction is made of such, as if Jesus Christ had not clearly declared: ‘He that is not with me is against me.’”

A writer who sees in a study of the consequences of the Jewish nation’s naturalism merely a series of fantastic statements about a supposed Jewish conspiracy has not grasped either the unity of the divine plan or the meaning of the Kingship of Christ. The Jews do work with abnormal secrecy, and in the Masonic society they certainly have a powerful secret auxiliary force working for naturalism, along with open and avowed auxiliary forces of Communists, Anarchists, etc. But it is a fact patent for all to see, that, in the world as it exists, the Jews, as an organised nation, refuse to accept Him Who is the Cornerstone of the building and the Foundation of right order, and look forward to a messianic era to be ushered in by another messias. Do they not proclaim this from the house tops? Klausner, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in his book, Jesus of Nazareth, writes as follows: “What is Jesus to the Jewish nation at the present day? To the Jewish nation he can be neither God nor the Son of God, in the sense conveyed by belief in the Trinity. Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible. Neither can he, to the Jewish nation, be the Messiah: the kingdom of Heaven (the ‘Days of the Messiah’) is not yet come . . . [The ethical code of Jesus] is no ethical code for the nations and social order of today, when men are still trying to find the way to that future of the Messiah and the Prophets, and to the ‘kingdom of the Almighty’ spoken of by the Talmud, an ideal which is of this ‘world’ and which, gradually and in the course of generations, is to take shape in this world.” A critic may point out that the attack on Christianity by immoral art and by unbelief would continue without Jews in the world. It is quite true that, even if the Jews were to disappear utterly, there would still be original sin in the world and consequently forces of revolt working for naturalism, under the leadership of Satan, whose whole being is in revolt against the supernatural life of grace. What must be insisted upon, however, is that in that hypothesis, the best organised visible force, the one with the greatest cohesion and dynamic energy, would be withdrawn from the naturalist camp.

The leaders of the Jewish race have a terrible responsibility. St. Thomas insists (IIIa P.Q. 47, a. 6 ad 1), that the excusing words of our Lord: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do” (St. Luke XXII, 34) were uttered on behalf of the common people, but not on behalf of the leaders of the Jews. Not only have they formed the ordinary people of their race to consider the idea of Our Lord being the Messias promised to their fathers as absolutely absurd, but they keep them in strict subjection. Pogroms in which the rank-and-file of the Jewish nation suffer serve the useful purpose of keeping them in absolute dependence on their leaders. 

THE OPPOSITION OF JEWISH NATURALISM TO OUR SUPERNATURAL WELL-BEING 

The fundamental nature of this opposition will be seen more clearly when we examine a point in which what I have been saying differs to some extent from the thesis of a writer whose name is a household word in Catholic circles. In his work on the Jewish question, Mr. Belloc writes as follows: “We are asked to believe that this political upheaval [the Bolshevik revolution by which the Jews got control of Russia] was part of one highly organised plot centuries old the agents of which were millions of human beings all pledged to the destruction of our society and acting in complete discipline under a few leaders superhumanly wise. The thing is nonsense on the face of it. Men have no capacity for acting in this fashion . . . moreover the motive is completely lacking. Why merely destroy, and why, if your object is merely to destroy, manifest wide differences in your aims? . . . The conception of a vast age-long plot, culminating in the contemporary Russian affair, will not hold water.”

Four points need to be touched upon. First of all, the opposition between the supernatural Messias and the natural messias is in the very nature of things. The Jews, as a nation have refused to accept the supernatural Messias, God Himself, Who came into His own world to restore our most real life, and they still look forward to another messias. They are therefore necessarily opposed to the true order of the world. As I have already said, the Jews work with abnormal secrecy and in the Masonic society they have a powerful secret auxiliary force working for naturalism, but I am here speaking of their opposition as a nation to the supernatural. It is absurd and confusing to speak of that opposition as a plot or a conspiracy, for not only is it clear to us but the Jews themselves proclaim it openly. We must always bear in mind that the world is one, and that it is, only through acceptance of our Lord Jesus Christ as the true Messias that we can live our lives as the objective order of the world demands. Mr Belloc seems to miss the force of the opposition between naturalism and the supernatural. That is one point.

Again, opposition to the order God has established in the world leads inevitably to decay in belief in God among the Jews, and to corruption in regard to the correct attitude towards their fellow human beings and in regard to the means to be employed to get other nations to accept the messianic message. It is morally inevitable that nations which resist and oppose the supernatural order of the world should suffer decay in the process. The excesses of the Bolshevik revolution thus find their explanation. We are, however, dealing with a moral law in the wide sense. God is merciful, and the Sacred Heart of Jesus loves the members of His own race with a special love. We cannot, as has been said, draw conclusions from such a law to all the individual members of the nation.

The third point concerns the differences amongst the Jews. Of course, there are differences amongst them and that, more unavoidably than amongst other nations, because of their opposition to order, but that fact cannot hide the truth of their strongly organised national solidarity. Is not the sympathy of the Jewish-controlled press throughout the world with the Muscovite, that is, Judaeo-Russian, Red government of Spain a proof of a strong unity?

The fourth point is that the Jews are not attacking Christian supernatural civilisation merely for the sake of destroying it. They are demolishing what for them are the accretions due to pagan conceptions, by which Catholicism has disfigured the messianic ideal. They want to prepare the way for the messias who, according to them, is still to come and who is to bring about peace and harmony amongst all the people of the world under their own rule. They demolish for the sake of reconstructing on another foundation. No wonder they persecuted St. Paul for his insistence on the fact that “Other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus.” (1 Cor. III, 11).

The orthodox Jews speak of the Fatherhood of God, but they refuse to accept God’s supreme manifestation of His paternity, His sending of His only-begotten Son. They consider as blasphemous the true doctrine of the Blessed Trinity and of the supernatural life by which we can enter into the family circle of the Blessed Trinity and love the Father with the Son and the Holy Ghost. In their pride they want to impose their will on God instead of humbly accepting His Will. In their pride they oppose physical descent from Abraham to the true doctrine of spiritual descent from him in unity of faith. “Know ye, therefore, that they who are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham . . . for you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus . . . And if you be Christ’s then are you the seed of Abraham, heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians III, 7, 26, 29). In their pride, they refuse to see in the prophecies of Isaias about the sufferings of the Messias, the narrative of the treatment that was to be meted out by them to the Messias when He came. They cannot believe that they could have made such fools of themselves as they actually did and continue to do by attempting to apply the promises of God concerning the world-wide sway of the Mystical Body of Christ to their own nation. This terrible pride is the source of the obstinacy with which they refuse to accept the Supernatural Messias. (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

How ironic it is that well-meaning "conservative" Catholics, influenced by "pro-life" evangelical and fundamentalist Protestants whose ancestors accepted Zionism by means of the notes inserted into the Scofield Bible at the behest of Zionism's founder, Theodore Herzl, have made fools of themselves by believing that there is something called Judeo-Christian values. Judaism is dead. Judaism and all of its many divisions belongs to the kingdom of satan. (For those unfamiliar with this truth, please see the section from Monsignor Joseph Clifford Fenton's The Catholic Church and Salvation appended below.) There are Judeo-Masonic lies, but there is no such thing as a "Judeo-Christian" value. It is Christ or chaos. Nothing in between. Nothing.

Father Fahey went on to discuss the proper meaning of the term anti-Semitism as taught by Holy Mother Church:

The Catholic Church condemns hatred and want of charity between nations just as it does between individuals. By nature we are brothers and by our supernature, the divine life of grace, we are united in a brotherhood which is infinitely nobler still. “Above the brotherhood of humanity and fatherland,” said Pope Pius XI, “there is a brotherhood which is infinitely more sacred and more precious, the brotherhood which makes us one in Christ, our Redeemer, namely, our kinship in the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ Himself.”1

The Church condemns in a more particular manner hatred of the Jews. Why is hatred of the Jewish race, as such, especially odious? Because they are the nation and race in which the lord became flesh. Our Lord is a Jew of the House of David. Catholics commonly designate this hatred by the term “anti-Semitism.”

If we take into account the condemnation of the German racial theories in the Encyclical Letter, On the Persecution of the Church in Germany, and in the Letter of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries of April, 1938, the present National Socialist hatred of the Jewish race is to be still more severely condemned, because it is based on blasphemous and heretical presuppositions.

It must, however, be remarked with the writer of the article, Juifs et Chrétiens, in the Dictionnaire Apologétique de la Foi Chrétienne, that the Church has spoken for and against the Jews. On the one hand, the Church has spoken for the Jews to protect their persons and their worship against unjust attacks. She has always condemned acts of violence against the Jews and has respected the liberty of their consciences and allowed them freedom for their cult. On the other hand, the Church has spoken against the Jews, when they wanted to impose their yoke on the faithful and provoke apostasy. She has ways striven to protect the faithful from contamination by them. As experience in past centuries showed that if the Jews succeeded in attaining to high offices of State they would abuse their powers to the detriment of Catholics, the Church always strove to prevent Catholics from coming under their yoke. They were forbidden to proselytise and were not allowed to have Christians as slaves or servants.

On the one hand, the Church condemns race hatred in general and hatred of the Redeemer’s race in particular. On the other hand, the Church insists, as we have seen, on the duty of combating naturalism in public and private life and approves of love of native land and extols true supernatural patriotism. We have the right and the duty to defend our country and our nation against the unjust aggression of another nation. This duty is still more strongly urged upon us when it is a question of our country’s fidelity to Christ the King. We must, therefore, combat naturalism in general always and everywhere, and we must be vigilant in regard to the naturalism of the Jewish nation in particular. The tireless energy with which His own nation pursues the elimination of the influence of the supernatural life is doubly painful to our Lord’s Sacred Heart. The combat against naturalism in general and, therefore, against the organised naturalism of the Jewish nation, is urged upon us, for example, by Pope Leo XIII (Tametsi, 1900) and Pope Pius XI (Quas Primas, 1925, and Quadragesimo Anno, 1931). (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

A later section in Father Fahey's The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation explained how the use of the term anti-Semitism has been employed in the United States to control American foreign policy and public opinion long ago before Patrick Joseph Buchanan wrote about Congress being Israeli-occupied territory:

Given the naturalistic messianic ambition of the Jewish nation to impose its rule on the other nations, anti-semitism for the Jews logically means whatever is in opposition to that ambition. The situation since the Second World War is being cleverly exploited to prevent anyone from opposing Jewish aims, through fear of being dubbed an “anti-Semite.” In my book, The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganisation of Society, I pointed out that the disordered National Socialist action against the corroding influence of Jewish naturalism on German national life led not only to measures of repression against the Jews, with regrettable violations of their personal rights, but also to persecution of the Catholic Church. Comparatively little information concerning the anti-Catholic measures ever reached the great newspaper-reading, cinema-going public, while hardly anyone could fail to be aware of what was done to the Jews. The term “anti-semitism,” with all its war connotation of Nazi cruelty, is now having its comprehension widened to include every form of opposition to the Jewish nation’s naturalistic programme. Forgetfulness of the disorder of Jewish naturalism is keeping Catholics blind to the consequences of accepting the term with its Jewish comprehension. According to the leaders of the Jewish nation, to stand for the rights of Christ the King is to be an anti-Semite.

Of all the countries in the world the United States is the country in which can best be observed this process of enlarging the comprehension of “anti-semitism” to include any and every form of opposition to what the Jewish leaders are aiming at. The United States, since its inception, has acted as if the Jewish naturalistic ambition of world-wide domination in opposition to the order of the world under Christ the King did not exist. Americans are now learning that a new anti-Christian organisation of the world is being brought about and that members of the Jewish nation are everywhere active in that work. On the one hand, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the American Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish War Veterans, and the well-known Communist Front, the American Civil Liberties Union, etc., are striving to prevent instruction of the New York public school children under the released time programme. On the other hand, there are powerful members of the Jewish nation like M.M. Warburg and J. P. Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., etc., etc., behind the movement for a naturalistic (or anti-supernatural) One World Government. The chief agency in the work of crushing, by the smear of smears, “anti-Semitic,” whatever is opposed to Jewish plans, is the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith. For an accurate account of the activities of that body, the two pamphlets, The Anti-Defamation League and its use in the World Communist Offensive and Know Your Enemy, by an honourable and courageous American, Robert H. Williams, are strongly recommended.

In Know Your Enemy, Robert H. Williams classifies the work of the Anti-Defamation League under four headings. Firstly, it “builds up liberal candidates, those tolerant of Communists and Zionists, to great reputations, in preparation for political office. Among its proteges are Dewey, Warren, Harold Stassen . . . Truman, the Roosevelt sons, Chester Bowles and a motley horde of lesser New Dealers. General Eisenhower was put into his job as figurehead of Columbia University by a group of internationalists . . . the League’s Walter Winchell for months boosted the Eisenhower candidacy. Eisenhower . . . is a tool in the hands of the Zionists.” Secondly, while building up its selected candidates, “it pours a stream of money and smear propaganda into an election against a chosen enemy.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler was thus defeated in Montana in 1941. Thirdly, it maintains “a nation-wide investigative agency. By its own statement, it has 200 keymen in 1200 cities. From many sources we know that this staff of G.P.U. agents spies on the private living and businesses of scores of thousands of Americans.” Fourthly, it carries on censorship, including character-defamation to suppress criticism. “By the use of information gathered by its spies, or by distorting that information . . . or by the mere threat of a malicious campaign . . . the A.D.L. is able to keep the newspapers, magazines and book publishers and Congress from effectively opposing it . . . That is why you may never have seen the name of the Anti-Defamation League in print . . . This. mighty machine promotes Communism and Zionism, protects the Frankfurter Communist-Zionist net inside the Government, subverts our children, dominates much of moviedom.” (Father Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation.)

These are facts, ladies and gentlemen.

Facts.

Facts read in the light of the Catholic Faith should help us overcome Judeo-Masonic naturalistic and nationalistic propaganda and thus to pray ever more fully for the conversion of Jews and everyone else to the true Church founded by Our Lord upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

No one, especially a Catholic, ought to level the baseless, sentimentally-laced charge of prejudice or bigotry against any Catholic who points out these facts. These facts are presented without malice and in a spirit of helping others to see the world for what it is and to direct our prayers and actions accordingly. Indeed, the infiltration of the spirit of naturalism has become the very foundation of the “social teaching” of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. This is indeed an aspect of the triumph of the Jewish Nation against the Messias that only a handful of traditional Catholics have been willing to explore in the past fifty to sixty years.

This is the month of Our Lady’s Most Holy Rosary and of the Holy Angels. Our Lady is the Queen of Angels, and she desires that Catholics pray and work for the conversion of all non-Catholics, including Jews and Mohammedans. This work is not part of Jorge Mario “All religions are paths to God” Bergoglio and his celebration of pagan fantasies to make reparation for nonexistent “sins” against the various gods of the World Economic Forum. Bergoglio and his rather queer band of apostates want to converts Catholics within the conciliar structures to the agenda of the One World Ecumenical Church that has nothing to do with the Sacred Deposit of Faith and everything to do with the establishment of a hegemonic globalist leviathan that glorifies grave sins and castigates as “hater” those who oppose both the globalism of anti-Theists and the sins they indemnify.

Apart from Father Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne and his brother, Father Theodore Ratisbonne, there have been very few priests in the past two centuries who have worked with the zeal of the Apostles themselves and others such Saint Vincent Ferrer to seek with urgency the conversion of Jews to the Catholic Faith.

One of those priests was the late Father Arthur Klyber, who was born a Jew in 1900 on the lower East Side of the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, New York, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he suffered persecution by Catholic school boys but was able to find his way into the Faith and to become ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer, the Redemptorists, which was founded, of course, by Saint Alfonsus de Liguori, to zealously work for the conversion of his fellow Jews:

LIGUORI, Mo.—Father Arthur B. Klyber, a Jewish convert and longtime missionary to the Jews, died Oct. 10 at the Redemptorists' nursing home in Missouri. He was 99.

Father Klyber served as domestic missionary, pastor and novice master during his 67 years as a priest, but his favorite ministry was his Jewish apostolate. Even as a seminarian, he dreamed of bringing Christ to his people.

He also sought through articles, booklets and lectures to make Catholics understand and appreciate the Jewish roots of their faith, and to reject hostility toward Jews. He once estimated he had distributed more than 800,000 copies of his writings.

Father Klyber contributed to several Catholic publications, including the Register. He was a friend and occasional subject of longtime Register columnist Paul Hallett, who said that Father Klyber had “done more in the cause of winning Jews for Christ than probably anyone else in recent times.”

He was born in 1900 in New York's Lower East Side to a family of observant Orthodox Jews. He and his two brothers lived in a Jewish orphanage in Harlem after his father left home and his mother died. About 1914 he moved in with an Orthodox aunt and uncle in the Bronx.

Knew of Prejudice

“I know all about Christian prejudice against Jews,” Father Klyber said in a 1977 profile. “I remember as a boy walking across the street from a church where the Catholic boys used to hang out and being pelted with stones. They would yell, ‘You damn Jew, get outta here!’ But I was too young to know why they did it.”

He volunteered for the Navy just before the United States entered World War I. While stationed in Southern California, the future priest was attracted to the Catholic faith. He was baptized Feb. 8, 1920. For his confirmation name he took Bernard, after the 12th-century Cistercian reformer and defender of the Jews.

Several months later, Klyber felt called to the priesthood. After being rejected by the Jesuits and the Franciscans, he was accepted by the Redemptorists.

Leaving a promising career in the Navy, he started at the Redemptorists' minor seminary in Kirkwood, Mo., in 1921, and professed in 1927. He was ordained a priest in 1932 in Oconomowoc, Wis.

While carrying out his regular Redemptorist duties, Father Klyber ran his Jewish apostolate on the side, with permission of the order.

He was an early member of the Edith Stein Guild of America, and won the organization's second Edith Stein Award in 1957.

In 1976, when he was having heart trouble and thought he would soon die, Father Klyber co-founded Remnant of Israel Inc., a nonprofit organization, to carry on his Jewish apostolate.

Goes West

When at age 79 he was officially semiretired, Father Klyber went from Chicago to Northern California, to become chaplain of a lay Dominican community whose members had formerly belonged to a hippie commune. In 1983 he moved with the community to New Hope, Ky., living for a while in a mobile home behind a winding dirt road without clean running water.

He gave his last lecture in Louisville in 1990, but continued to write into his early 90s.

In 1996, when his memory was failing, he moved to St. Clement's Health Care Center, the Redemptorists' nursing home in Liguori, Mo. He was living there when he died, apparently of a heart attack in his sleep.

“He was a true Redemptorist,” said Father James Keena, one of Father Klyber's novices during the 1950s, during his funeral sermon Oct. 13.

Father Keena, now the provincial vicar of the Redemptorists' Denver Province, recalled Father Klyber as a compassionate novice master with a great sense of humor. The novices always looked forward to the priest's Sunday talks, which reflected his deep study and feel for the Old Testament of his forefathers and the New Testament of Jesus, Father Keena said.

Great Suffering

Trying to explain what he described as Father Klyber's extraordinary kindliness, Father Keena said it must have come from great suffering, particularly the rejection by his family when he became a Catholic. Though Father Klyber eventually reconciled with many of his relatives, his baptism caused some members of his family to treat him as though he were dead, following the Orthodox practice of disavowing apostates.

Father Keena said Redemptorists trying to restore the order's charism of working with the poor and abandoned would do well to consider the lives of older Redemptorists such as Father Klyber.

He wrote six booklets, including four that are still in print: Once a Jew, This Jew, He's a Jew! and Queen of the Jews. A collection of his booklets and articles, titled The One Who Is To Come, will be published later this year by Remnant of Israel. A biography is also scheduled to appear next year.

Father Klyber was buried at the Redemptorists' cemetery in Liguori [Missouri]. (As found at Father Arthur Klyber, Apostle to the Jews, Dies at Age 99.)

It was within the Providence of God that we learned about Father Klyber as this commentary was being written.

We learned about Father Klyber from a friend/reader whose mother was born a Polish-Russian Orthodox Jew in Poland before emigrating to the United States of America, where she met and married a Catholic man who worked at the Department of Defense. It was while the couple were traveling on a train cross country that they “accidentally” ran into Fathe Klyber, who had been double-booked into a Pullman berth with them. The couple visit with Father Klyber before gladly giving him the berth to himself, but kept in contact and work the conversion of our friend’s mother to the Holy Faith, first by sending her several of his books. As the late Father John A. Hardon, S. J., used to say quite frequently, “There is no such thing as a coincidence. Do you hear what I just said? There is no such thing as a coincidence.”

Thus, in addition to Father Marie-Alfonse Ratisbonne, who founded the Congregation of Sion to seek the conversion of the Jews in the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century after his own miraculous conversion from Judaism to the Faith by Our Lady herself as she appeared in the image of the Miraculous Medal of Grace on January 20, 1842, at the Church San Andrea delle Fratte  in Rome, Italy, that he had mocked, we should also pray to Father Arthur Klyber, who was, as a Redemptorist, very devoted to Our Lady and her Most Holy Rosary, so that the Jews and the Mohammedans of the Middle East will convert and exclaim together una voce dicentes: Benedictus qui venit in nomini Domini. Hosanna in excelsis!

Isn’t it time to pray a Rosary now in this month of the Holy Rosary?

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and Holy Face, pray for us.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.

Our Holy Guardian Angels, pray for us and protect us.

Appendix

Excerpted from Chuck Baldwin’s “Trump” Make Israel Great Again.”

At a Republican rally in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, September 19, billed as “opposing antisemitism,” Donald Trump made several remarks that lived up to his title of “America’s First Zionist President.” Leaving the “Make America Great Again” mantra, Trump promised his audience that he would “make Israel great again.”

With Zionist mega-billionaire Miriam Adelson looking on (Adelson gave Trump over one hundred million dollars for his promise that, if elected, he would support Israel’s purge of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, as she and her late husband, Sheldon, did in 2016 for Trump’s promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem), Trump said that the upcoming U.S. election is “the most important” in Israel’s history.

So much for making America great again! It is clear that Donald Trump is an agent of the State of Israel and would use the White House (as he did during his first term in office) as an asset of the Zionist state—even more than did Joe Biden.

As I have said many, many times: There is only ONE party in Washington, D.C., and that’s the War Party. In this regard, the only difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is that Harris would take America to war with Russia over Ukraine, while Trump would take America to war with Russia (and perhaps China and Iran and Lebanon and Iraq and Syria and Jordan and Egypt and Turkey) over Israel.

In Trump’s sycophantic speech on behalf of Zionist Jews, he boasted:

I gave them Golan Heights. I gave them the Abraham Accords. I recognized the capital of Israel and opened the Embassy in Jerusalem. And most importantly of all, I terminated the Iran nuclear deal, which was the worst deal ever made in the history of Israel.

I was there four years, gave them billions and billions of dollars.

Also, during his speech, Trump alluded to one of his social media posts that he wrote in 2022 saying,

Wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of (his Israel record) than the people of the Jewish faith.

Indeed. When it comes to Israel, the vast majority of evangelicals are the most duped, the most deceived, the most beguiled, the most bewitched people on the planet. (Galatians 3:1 – 29)

If any other nation on earth had committed the unmistakable War Crime of exploding 1,500 electronic handheld devices indiscriminately among a peaceful civilian population, resulting in casualties numbering over 3,000 (most of them innocent civilians, including a large percentage of women and children), as Israel did in Lebanon, U.S. reaction—including America’s evangelicals—would be swift and furious. That nation would rightly be called a terrorist state and accused of War Crimes; and the leader of that country would rightly be called a terrorist and international War Criminal.

Well, that’s exactly what the State of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu are! But Donald Trump and his “wonderful evangelicals” not only say nothing in opposition to Israel’s acts of terror and genocide, but they audaciously support those acts of terror and genocide.

And make no mistake about it: Israel IS a terrorist state and has been since its inception in 1948. On a daily basis for 76 years, Zionist Israel has committed, and continues to commit, ethnic cleansing, genocide and international War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.

According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Article 7:

Crimes Against Humanity

• For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: [Emphasis added]
• Murder; [Israel is guilty]
• Extermination; [Israel is guilty]
• Enslavement; [Israel is guilty]
• Deportation or forcible transfer of population; [Israel is guilty]
• Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law; [Israel is guilty]
• Torture; [Israel is guilty]
• Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity; [Israel is guilty]
• Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; [Israel is guilty]
• Enforced disappearance of persons; [Israel is guilty]
• The crime of apartheid; [Israel is guilty]
• Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health. [Israel is guilty]
• For the purpose of paragraph 1:
• “Attack directed against any civilian population” means a course of conduct involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1 against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or organizational policy to commit such attack; [Israel is guilty]
• “Extermination” includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population; [Israel is guilty]
• “Enslavement” means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children; [Israel is guilty]
• “Deportation or forcible transfer of population” means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law; [Israel is guilty]
• “Torture” means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions; [Israel is guilty]
• “Forced pregnancy” means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant, with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population or carrying out other grave violations of international law; [Israel is guilty]
• “Persecution” means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity; [Israel is guilty]
• “The crime of apartheid” means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime; [Israel is guilty]
• “Enforced disappearance of persons” means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time. [Israel is guilty]

Under Article 8, War Crimes, we find listed (abbreviated):

1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.
2. For the purpose of this Statute, “war crimes” means:

Torture or inhuman treatment, [Israel is guilty]

Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health; [Israel is guilty]

Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; [Israel is guilty]

Israel has deliberately and with total abandon bombed hospitals, nurseries, schools, colleges, aid shelters, food distribution areas, ambulances, churches, mosques, civilian tent dwellings, houses of journalism, private homes with whole families inside, entire neighborhoods, entire villages, water supplies, food supplies, medical supplies and electrical supplies. Israel has also deliberately and with total abandon destroyed almost all of the agricultural land, which is the primary source of livelihood and life in Gaza.

Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities; Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives; [Israel is guilty]

Israel is guilty of this War Crime on a daily basis. Israel’s random and reckless pager explosions among the civilian population of Lebanon were a flagrant violation of this section and is, thus, clearly condemned as a War Crime under international law—and God’s Natural and moral laws, by the way.

Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission. [Israel is guilty]

We saw the Israeli War Crime mentioned here on live video when rescue workers were rushing to save a little 5-year-old girl, whose entire family had been killed, as she was hiding in a destroyed vehicle waiting for rescue workers to come save her. The Israeli forces patiently waited for those unarmed rescue workers to arrive and then fired their missiles, which murdered not only the rescue workers but also the little girl.

Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated; [Israel is guilty]

Again, the pager bombings, the destruction of civilians en masse, the destruction of the agricultural land of Gaza, etc., are here identified as War Crimes.

Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives; [Israel is guilty]

Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion; [Israel is guilty]

We have seen the Israeli military commit this War Crime on live video.

Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury; [Israel is guilty] 

We have seen Israeli forces commit this War Crime on live video.

The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory; [Israel is guilty]

Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, provided they are not military objectives; [Israel is guilty]

Destroying or seizing the enemy’s property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war; [Israel is guilty]

Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party; [Israel is guilty]

Pillaging a town or place, even when taken by assault; [Israel is guilty]

Employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict. [Israel is guilty] 

Again, indiscriminate mass bombings of innocent unarmed civilians by Israeli military forces take place every day in Gaza—and now in the West Bank and Lebanon.

Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; [Israel is guilty] 

We’ve seen plenty of photos of Israeli forces committing this War Crime.

Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport, and personnel using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions in conformity with international law; [Israel is guilty]

Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions. [Israel is guilty] 

This is the Israel that Donald Trump wants to make great? Yes.

This is the Israel that evangelicals claim are God’s chosen people? Yes.

This is the Israel that uses lobby groups such as AIPAC to dominate our U.S. Congress and most state governors? Yes.

Israel and Ukraine! Yes!

And if somehow America miraculously avoids a nuclear confrontation with Russia over Ukraine or Israel, the bloodthirsty (and money-hungry) War Party in D.C. will find another monster for the United States to destroy.

I personally believe that the Jewish bankers (Rothschilds) manipulated the founding of Zionist Israel in 1948 at the conclusion of the Second World War for the specific purpose of destabilizing not just the Middle East but the entire world to make sure that perpetual war continued beyond the Paris Peace Treaties in 1947. I further believe that the history of the State of Israel—up to the present hour—substantiates my belief.

Soon after America’s founding, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that America was “great” because America was “good.”

If goodness is the prerequisite for greatness, Zionist Israel will never be great, because Zionist Israel will never be good. (Trump: 'Make Israel Great Again'.)