THE Irish priest, Fr. Denis Fahey (1883-1954), was one of the modern era’s greatest defenders of Christian social order. He is unquestionably one of my greatest heroes. His courage and clarity are deeply inspiring. (Ignore the negative things on the Internet about him. It’s trash. Trash and slander.) In this review, quoted at this excellent new website, Fr. Fahey criticizes Catholics who unthinkingly hurl accusations of anti-Semitism at other Catholics:

Two reasons can be assigned to the fact that Our Lord’s faithful members will often be betrayed by those who should be on the side of Christ the King. Firstly, many Catholic writers speak of Papal condemnations of Anti-Semitism without explaining the meaning of the term, and never even allude to the documents which insist on the Rights of Our Divine Lord, Head of the Mystical Body, Priest and King.  Thus, very many are completely ignorant of the duty incumbent on all Catholics of standing positively for Our Lord’s Reign in society in opposition to Jewish Naturalism.  The result is that numbers of Catholics are so ignorant of Catholic doctrine that they hurl the accusation of Anti-Semitism against those who are battling for the Rights of Christ the King, thus effectively aiding the enemies of Our Divine Lord.  Secondly, many Catholic writers copy unquestioningly what they read in the naturalistic or anti-Supernatural Press and do not distinguish between Anti-Semitism in the correct Catholic sense, as explained above, and “Anti-Semitism” as the Jews understand it.

For the Jews, “Anti-Semitism” is anything that is in opposition to the naturalistic Messianic domination of their nation over all the others.  Quite logically, the leaders of the Jewish nation hold that to stand for the Rights of Christ the King is to be “Anti-Semitic.”[40]

The term “Anti-Semitism,” with all its smear connections in the minds of the unthinking, is being extended to include any form of opposition to the Jewish nation’s naturalistic aims and any exposure of the methods they adopt to achieve these aims.

“In our time more than ever before ,” said the saintly Pius X at the Beatification of Joan of Arc (Dec. 13, 1908), “the greatest asset of the evil-disposed is the  cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigour of Satan’s reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics.  Oh! If I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the Prophet Zachary did in spirit: What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands? the answer would not be doubtful.  With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved Me.  I was wounded by My friends, who did nothing to defend Me, and who on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of My adversaries.  And this reproach can be levelled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries.”

You can buy Fr. Fahey’s books here. If you are new to his works, I suggest beginning with The Mystical  Body of Christ in the Modern World.

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