the Vatican and the Jews

The crusades were supposed to bear expression of the supreme pontiff’s moral leadership of the western world (which was one of Gregory’s cardinal doctrines) and would bring the peoples of the north into closer relations with Rome. To Urban the crusade served four ends in addition to the obvious one of regaining the Holy Land for the cross. First, it would help to reunite Christendom after the bitter and divisive disputes over the Gregorian reform, and second, it would increase papal prestige at a time when there were supporters of the German emperor even in the city of Rome. Third, it would work toward ending the schism between the western and eastern churches. Urban had tried to bring the Greek Church in southern Italy under papal authority, but his plan had foundered on a theological dispute about the relationship between the Son and the Holy Ghost (the so-called Filioque controversy). A crusade might go to the heart of the matter by making the Byzantine emperor dependent upon, or even subservient to a Latin army. The fourth value that Urban saw in a crusade was a consequence of his own French background. He well knew that the Germans would not join his enterprise and that the powerful Anglo-Norman ruler would not be inclined to participate.

The backbone of the crusading army, aside from a contingent of Norman Italians, would have to come from the French principalities. Before he arrived at Clermont, he already knew that one of the leading French princes, Raymond of St. Giles, count of Touluse, would take the cross. As Urban began his highly emotional appeal to the “Race of Franks” to join the crusade, he already anticipated a favorable response. He offered his listeners the prospect of carving out kingdoms in Palestine, “a land flowing with milk and honey.” The influential French philologist E. Renan attemptet a “scientific” explanation for new racist and imperialist myths. He argued that Hebrew and Arabic were degraded languages, deviations from the Aryan tradition, which had become irredeemably flawed. These Semitic tongues could be studied only as an example of arrested development and lacked the progressive character of ‘our’ linguistic systems. That was why Jews and Arabs were both ‘une combinaison inferieure de la nature humaine: “One sees that in all things the Semitic race appears to us to be an incomplete race by virtue of its simplicity. This race – if I dare use the analogy – is to the Indo-European family what a pencil sketch is to a painting; it lacks that variety, that amplitude, that abundance of life which is the condition of perfectibility. Like those individuals who possess so little fecundity that, after a gracious childhood, they attain only the most mediocre virility, the Semitic nations experienced their fullest flowering in their first age and have never been able to achieve true maturity.” (Histoire Generale)

The Vatican’s ‘’No” to the Jewish State

When Th. Herzl approached Pope Pius X in Jan 1904, seeking his assistance for the Zionist venture, the pope dismissed him with these words: “We cannot favor this movement. The Jews did not recognize Jesus, our Lord, and we therefore cannot recognize the Jewish people. If you come to Palestine and settle your people there we will be ready with priests and churches to baptize you.” In 1938 Rev. Denis Fahey, professor of philosophy (like K. Wojtyla) published the booklet entitled “The Rulers of Russia” that received an imprimatur of Jeremias, Episcopus Waterfordensis and Lismorensis. And here is the most revealing paragraph of this booklet: “A step to be taken to undo the naturalism of the French Revolution and, at the same time, prevent onslaughts on the Jews, is to withdraw citizenship of other states from all of them and limit them to citizenship of one state, their own. That state must not be Palestine, for the Jewish claim to Palestine is implicitly a denial that they have disobeyed God and, missed their vocation by the rejection of the True Supernatural Messiah. It is the assertion in action that the promised Messiah has not yet come and that the day of their domination over the world will yet dawn. That way lays disaster, because all their naturalistic attempts to impose their will on God instead of accepting Him, will involve the Jewish nation in further dire catastrophes. It is not necessary to stress the fact that the Arabs have a natural right to the country they have occupied for at least 1300 years.” Who gave the Arabs the right to occupy Israel and Judea in the first place?

Just a few weeks after A. Hitler came to power in Germany, St. Edith Stein – a Catholic convert from Judaism who was soon to enter a Carmelite convent – wrote to Pope Pius XI asking him to condemn the Nazi ideology. The saint, who died at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in 1942 and was canonized in 1998, wrote to the pope April 12, 1933, saying the whole world was “waiting and hoping that the church of Christ would make its voice heard.” The letter, which St. Edith Stein referred to in other writings, was published for the first time in German and Italian newspapers Feb. 19, 2003 after scholars were given copies of the original from the Vatican Secret Archives.

Mario Palmeri in his “The Philosophy of Fascism” (Chicago 1936) proudly proclaimed: “Providence chose the Italian land for this civilizing process, nourishing a spark of divine truth in it “ab antico” (i.e. heliocentrism and evolutionism) and molding there a race wonderfully adapted in genius and intelligence for subjecting the whole world in Christian obedience. Italy is the priestly nation among the great body of redeemed peoples. Nor did the inhabitants of this peninsula give to other peoples merely divine gifts (Read the book “The Gifts of the Jews” – RP), but also every other civil and human good, and all the great intellects of Europe, who enhanced in any measure the glory of their countries, lit their lamps at the living flame of Italian genius.” A. Hitler called the Hebrew Bible, “Jewish folklore and therefore contemptible nonsense” and therefore was a darling of Pope Pius XII.
On 14 July 1938 the Italian Fascist university professors made public a long “Dichiarazione della Razza” in which they extolled a pure “Italian (Aryan) race” and made a sharp distinction between the Mediterraneans of Europe (Occidentals), on the one hand, and the Orientals and Africans on the others. They stressed that Jews did not belong to the Italian race. Arguing that “the purely European physical and psychological characteristics of Italians must not be altered in any way”, the foreshadowed the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. This racist manifesto was supposed to justify the colonial conquest of Ethiopia and “carving out Latin kingdoms in Palestine”. In his “Doctrine of Fascism” (1932) B. Mussolini explained: “…the tendency to Empire, that is to say, to the expansion of nations, is a manifestation of vitality; its opposite, staying at home, is a sign of decadence; people who rise or re-rise are imperialist, peoples who die are renunciatory.” Hitler learned his doctrine of “Lebensraum” from Mussolini. In his encyclical “Mysticism Corporis Christi” issued in June 1943, Pope Pius XII declared: “…but on the gibbet of his death Jesus made void the Law with its decree, and fastened the handwriting of the Old Testament to the cross, establishing the New Testament in his blood…On the cross then the Old Law died soon to be buried and to be a bearer of death.” (The gigantic cross set up by the Polish church in Auschwitz is supposed to remind this papal justification of the Jewish Holocaust) That encyclical has a very interesting historical background.

In April 1938, editor of “America” sent Father LaFarge to the International Eucharistic Congress at Budapest. In the same year Civilta Cattolica published an article arguing that Hungary could be saved from the Influence of Jews, “disastrous for the religious, moral, and social life of the Hungarian people,” only if “the government forbids Jewish foreigners to enter the country.” The genocide of the Hungarian Jews by Eichmann was thus prepared by the Vatican. On June 22 LaFarge was in the pontifical antechamber in Castelgandolfo; the pope enjoined upon him to write the text of an encyclical on the moral evil of the anti-Semitism. And so at the beginning of July LaFarge returned to Paris, where he set to work on his new mission, together with Desbusquis and Gundlach. A week or so later, on 14 July 1938 the Italian Fascist university professors made public a long “Dichiarazione della Razza” in which they extolled a pure “Italian (Aryan) race”. The Encyclical Humani Generis Unitas was never promulgated by the Pope.

Then came the May 1939 British White Paper renouncing the Balfour Declaration and the mandate on which British authority rested. The document carried the imprimatur of Neville Chamberlain. It constituted an act of appeasement of the forces of evil that rivaled, and in some ways surpassed in its iniquitous consequences, performances at Berchtesgaden and Munich of the previous autumn. Plainly the policy of the Chamberlain government was to reduce the Jewish homeland to a Jewish ghetto within an Arab Palestine. From that policy flowed the greatest tragedy ever to befall a single people in written history – and perhaps not-unrelated decline of British power.

An Israeli radio commentator had predicted that by acquitting Jews of deicide, the Church Council, de facto, recognized the state of Israel as religiously legitimate. But could the Pope really agree with Israelis’ religious conviction that the establishment of Israel and the ingathering of the exiles was a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies? For, if the Scriptural prophecies have already been fulfilled in the coming of Christ, if the hope of Israel is to be identified completely with Jesus, then how interpret this revival that has occurred in the Holy Land? Would the Pope acknowledge that in the Jewish State God has provided a grace and a blessing to the Jewish people? That the hand of God is present in this enterprise? The Syrian President’s shocking anti-Jewish rant during Pope John Paul’s recent pilgrimage was bad enough. But soon Assad has flabbergasted even his own officials by Okaying an international Holocaust-denial conference in Damascus by the end of 2001. The conference was organized by French propagandist Garaudy, a former communist and a close friend of J.M. Card. Lustiger’s who converted to Islam. (Daily News, May 28, 2001)
Are Popes Good Christians?

G. Roncalli, the later Pope John XXIII was sufficiently cooperative with Pius XII’s anti-Jewish policy, to advise the Curia against Jewish transportation to Palestine, which might challenge Christian possession of exceedingly profitable Holy Places (Latin proverb says, Pecuniae obediunt omnia). In his letter of Sept. 4, 1943, to the papal secretary of state when the Jewish Holocaust was in full swing, Roncalli wrote: “I confess that this convoy of Jews to Palestine, aided specifically by the Holy See, looks like the reconstruction of the Hebrew Kingdom, and so arouses certain doubts in my mind…” The British knew what they were doing when they published their ill-famous White Paper.

In 1961 Archbishop of Milan G. Montini, the future Pope Paul VI prefaced a book by Angelo Alberti which invoked the traditional Catholic teaching that the “Jews are a people condemned to ruin.” On Nov. 26, 1961 George Ball, whose son studied Arabic at the American University at Beirut replaced Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles. In 1964 on advice of G. Ball (“there should be a voice of the Palestinians to speak for them”) Nasser decided to create a Palestinian organization, which would be under his control. And so PLO was born in cooperation with G. Ball, whose hobby was carpentry. He was a very “pious man”! Like his Catholic President.

Against the “Jewish” Democracy

During Vatican Council II, the anti-Semitic wing of the Church hierarchy distributed a pamphlet entitled The Council and the Assault of the Central European Block that contained an attack on those Bishops who allegedly had come under the influence of Jews and were seeking to destroy the Church by anti-Catholic development of collegiality. Because in political terms, the Popes are absolute monarchs (Recall, that during his pilgrimage to Lithuania Pope John Paul II strongly warned against the “defects of democracy”). A second pamphlet The Jews and the Council in the Light of Holy Scripture and Tradition drew upon the New Testament sources and the teaching of Church fathers to demonstrate that Catholic aristocratic teaching clearly recognized the Jews as an accursed people and a menace to the Church. The Bible teaches: “The rich and the poor meet together; Yahweh is the maker of them all” (Prv 22:2)

“Jews are a people condemned to ruin”

wrote in 1961 Archbishop of Milan G. Montini, the future Pope Paul VI in the preface to a book by Angelo Alberti which invoked the traditional Catholic teaching. When Abp. Montini wrote this sentence he was well aware of what happened not so long time ago in the Nazi Austria. The study by the Historical Commission, set up by the government in 1998, concluded that: “Austrians helped the Nazis drive Jewish tenants out of 59,000 apartments, sometimes in violent breakings, to make up for a housing shortage, while the companies helped to take over Jewish businesses in an effort to reduce competition. “ “The looting of some 200,000 Jews who were living in Austria before World War II was the first step toward their annihilation by the Nazis,” said a historian, Clemens Jabloner, as he presented the Historical Commission’s 14,000-page report. The study found that roughly 18,800 Jewish businesses were liquidated, more than 90 Jewish banking houses were closed and 600 Jewish associations and 325 foundations were dissolved by 1945 (NYT, Feb. 25, 2003). Well, Abp. Montini’s sentence on the Jewish nation prompted the Poles in 1968 to condemn to ruin the remainder of Jews who survived the Holocaust in their country.

To Nurture Links with the Islamic World:

The church is in a constant theological struggle with resurgent Islam in Africa. This prompts mention of the Vatican’s influential Council of Inter-Religious Dialogue – which is supposed to promote mutual understanding between Catholics and the followers of other religious traditions – headed by Monsignor Michael Fitzgerald, an Englishman, who could be described as “an Arabist”. Fitzgerald was appointed by the pope.

The Hebrew University’s Robert Wistrich is icily analytical in his evaluation of the papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land two years ago. “He handled himself with great dignity,” he says of the pope, “and acted like a skillful diplomat. He brought a moment of peace and tranquility.” But it was an illusion. “Since then, everything has been going downhill His subsequent visit to Syria was overshadowed by the Syrian ruler’s voicing of the worst Christian and Moslem libels, during which the pope remained silent. And the whole incident was trivialized when he returned to Rome. “Statements emanating from Rome have been slanted against Israel. There have been no condemnations of the suicide-bombing horror. An article published in *Osservatore Romano* – the Vatican’s official newspaper – virtually accuses Israel of genocide!” Well, Judge Goldstine is a professor at the Jesuit Fordham University.

Church’s attitude toward the Holocaust continues to cast a shadow. Minerbi, the former diplomat, detects a papal effort to “Christianize” the Shoah in many of the pope’s formulations, voiced long before his millennial pilgrimage. In 1979, during a visit to Auschwitz, Pope John Paul II declared, “Here six million were killed, and then added immediately, “a quarter of Poland’s population.” “It took the Vatican 10 years to compose the document entitled *We Remember, in which the Holocaust is described as ‘an inedible stain on human history,’” says Minerbi, “but at the same time there has been a constant effort to cleanse the Church of any guilt in the Nazi genocide. For example, in remarks at Yad Vashem, the pope said that “the Holocaust was perpetrated by a German regime on the basis of writings which are outside the Church.” (The Jewish Herald, Friday, Dec. 6, 2002)

In 1976, Card. Pignedolli endorsed in Tripoli, Libya a document asserting the Arab character of Jerusalem and demanding Israel’s withdrawal from all territories it had occupied in 1967. It was the Vatican’s “road map” to peace. When Pope John Paul I addressed a letter “Jerusalem, Israel” the next day he was found dead. Continuing the policy sealed by Card. Pignedolli in Tripoli, Pope John Paul II opened diplomatic relations with Libya and in an address to the Libyan delegation on Nov. 1, 1997 he expressed hope for a quick end to the UN air embargo. The Papal endorsement followed the Russo-Libyan consultation in Moscow Oct 22-23 and Russia’s help to reconstruct nuclear reactor in Tajura Nuclear center. Soon thereafter, Primakov cut a deal with Iraq.

In 1955 when Y. Arafat came to Prague as a representative of Palestinian students to the Social International meeting of students, a beautiful East German member of the Communist Party was sent on a mission to West Germany. In 1961 when the future Pope Paul VI sentenced Jews to ruin, the beautiful Ellen Rometsch moved to the US with her second husband, a sergeant in the West German air force who was assigned to the German Embassy in Washington. Rometsch had become one of Bobby Baker’s girls by early 1963. B. Baker was the man who did what the Democratic senators needed done, and discreetly got them what they wanted, including women. It was arranged, for Bill Thompson, the railroad executive to pick Rometch up at her apartment (when her husband was on duty) in the northwest Washington and take her to the White House. Rometsch later told Baker that “the president was really a fun guy and how delighted she was to be with him.” The President told Baker that Ellen was the most exciting woman that he had been with. Rometsch, 27 when they met, fulfilled another essential criterion for the president: she was a professional, a prostitute, who would do what was wanted, and keep silent. In B. Baker’s opinion “she was a Nazi.” E. Rometsch mission in Washington was to prepare favorable opinion for creation of Palestine Liberation Organization. And she did that exceedingly well. Hani al-Hassan, member of the PLO’s first central committee who had organized Palestinian students in Germany recalls: “Shukeiry told me that Nasser and the Arabs, in cooperation with Under-Secretary of State, G. Ball, have helped to create this organization.”

The sympathy for the Nazis runs deeply in the Catholic Kennedy clan. The New York Post revealed in its edition of Feb. 27, 2003: “MEDIA monolith Hachette Filipacchi, has a big problem: Saddam Hussein owns a $90 million stake in its parent company. Saddam owns just under 2% of Lagardere SCA, the French company of which Hachette Filipacchi Media US, publishers of Elle, Car & Driver, Women’s Day and (now defunct) “George” and other titles, is a unit. His shares are held by Iraqi-controlled Montana Management, based in Geneva. Saddam’s Hachette holdings first came to light when Iraq invaded Kuwait n 1990, and the UN Security Council along with the French and US governments acted to freeze Iraq’s assets. At the Time he was the second-largest shareholder in Hachette SA, controlling 8.4% of the company.”

In 1975 on centenary of founding the United Lodge of Theosophists in New York, the then Card.K. Wojtyla published in Rome book entitled Art of the Living Word inspired in part by the writings of the Russian-born foundress of Theosophy Mme Helena von Hahn-Blavatsky. In the same year twentieth printing of the Rulers of Russia was published in Hawthorne, Calif. 90250 by Omni Publications. Card. Wojtyla did know everything about the formative role of the American theosophical movement upon the birth of the German Nazism. He also remembered that shortly after organizing the United Lodge of Theosophists in 1875, a parliamentarian in the Hungarian Diet made the first “officially” anti-Semitic speech in any parliament in Europe. No wonder then that in the Solidarity Poland A. Hitler’s Mein Kampf became a best-seller being sold on every street corner. Recall in this context the words of a certain Dr. Engelka, a Nazi apostle; “God,” he said, “has manifested himself not in Jesus Christ but in Adolf Hitler.” “Jehovah, whom the Jews worship is the greatest of all criminals,” editorialized the Nazi weekly, Der Stuermer. “No one,” asserted Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist, “has the right to find fault with those of our people who have fund their Son of God (Hitler) and have thus regained their Eternal Father” (meaning Zeus).

On Dec. 24, 2000, the most popular Polish weekly Wprost revealed that the closest friend of the young Karol Wojtyla, the writer, W. Zukrowski collaborated with the Nazis. Assuming that friends know each other well, we may conclude that the future Pope approved of or even shared his friend’s sympathy toward the Nazis. Such a conclusion is fully justified if one considers that in those years the French Church welcomed Hitler’s occupation of France as an act of salvation. Hitler’s saying that the Bible is Jewish folklore and therefore a contemptible nonsense echoed the policy of the Polish Church which dethroned Jesus Christ and proclaimed Copernicus to be a new Savior in the saying ascribing to him the divine power to stop the sun and to move the earth. This saying explains the strange fact that the epitaph portrait of Copernicus showing his death bed conversion is totally ignored in Poland even though the Mongolian Post reproduced this portrait on a stamp issued in 1974. One could say, Jenghiz Khan, God’s scourge has risen from the dead.

This Opinionated, Slanted and Emotional BBC

The royal charter which created the BBC in 1926 requires the governors of the BBC to monitor and supervise compliance with the ethical code referred to as “The Producer’s Guidelines”. Impartiality, truth, dispassion, fairness, accuracy, context, faithful representation – these are the ethics of the BBC. Fidelity to that code is what gave the corporation its monumental reputation as the gold standard of current-affairs broadcasting. Until the intifada, that is. Just at a time when the Israeli journey turned suddenly perilous the BBC’s coverage of it turned suddenly rough. While professing to blow trusty horns of impartiality, its interviewers have become hostile, strident and clipped, without sympathy or empathy. BBC announcers uttering the word “Zionism”, “settler” or “Sharon” seem to do so through a curled lip. The BBC anchors pronounce words with Arab emphasis.

The Financial Times, in its weekend edition of Nov. 16-17, 2002, wrote: “In a study earlier this year of the BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the British lawyer Trevor Asserson and his research assistant the Israeli lawyer Elisheva Mironi, the authors found that the BBC breaches its license agreement to be impartial by ‘incorporating use of language, unbalanced reporting, inappropriate selection of material, and distortion or omission of facts – a clear and significant trend of bias’ against Israel and against Jews.”

Over to randomly selected periods of time, Asserson and his team analyzed the BBC’s major coverage of the Middle East in its main news programs. Then, collating their findings into the two reports, they documented in devastating detail breach after breach of the BBC. Those violations were many. They included emotive use of language, unbalanced reporting, selective use of material, distortion and omission of facts, an unfair choice of interviewees, an almost consistent sympathetic portrayal of Yassir Arafat with no corresponding profile of a major Israeli leader, refusal to use the legal and dictionary definitions of the word “terrorist,” calculated omission of Israeli viewpoints, suppression of stories that do not suit the BBC world view, the abusive use of pictures, biased reporters expressing personal views and an almost automatic attempt to find an anti-Israel angle to numerous news stories. Keep in mind that the BBC’s World Service, attracts an audience of 150 million listeners a week. Credulous listeners!

Why the BBC is so fond of Y. Arafat? Arafat is the mountain from whose top Muslims making the hajj stone the devil. Recall that Anglo-Israelitism held that the “chosen people” of the Bible are white Anglo-Saxons, that Jews were descended from Satan. Yassir has in his veins a Circassian blood, a magic ichor providing privilege and rank. So there was more to the stones that Palestinian children used to attack the Israeli soldiers than a simple resort to what was available. It was rajm or throwing stones against the Devil. Such a strategic weapon transformed those Palestinian kids into the British Israelites, a new chosen people of the Promised Palestinian Mandate. In the case of Intifada it was convenient to remind the world of the Children’s Crusade of 1212 which was supposed to conquer the Holy Land to establish the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. That explains the enthusiasm of the Papal propaganda machine which made it impossible to deny the “children of Intifada” sympathy! Do you feel the same sympathy for German children (Hitlerjugend) fighting the Red Army? The so-called Polish London government also used children to fight the Germans…The most important thing, however, is that the name Arafat sounds like a battle cry in the ears of all Christians and Muslims because it reminds the ill-famous, anti-Jewish mantra of the Gospel of John: “ Jesus sad unto the scribes and Pharisees, You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own.” This verse serves as the justification of the pseudo-scientific corrections introduced into the Bible by the author of the Latin Vulgate and the authors of King James Version. St. Hieronymus smuggled into the Hebrew Bible the philosophic heliocentrism by translating the Hebrew raqi’a with firmamentum, and King James Version suffused the Bible with philosophic evolutionism which is negated by the original version. These hoaxes are to prove racial inferiority of the Jews, a recurring dogma since Cicero’s bashing of the Jews.

How differently the Evangelical Christians broadcast their message to the world. Last week a group of Christian ministers created the Evangelical Israel Broadcasting Network (EIBN) to bring pro-Israel news and public service announcement to hundreds of Christian TV stations around the country. The new network will begin with one-minute public service announcement, which stations are running for free, “expressing solidarity with the Jewish people in Israel.” That will reach millions of Bible-believing Christians. Eventually, the network will feed news directly from Israel to Christian stations to counter “the distortions by the liberal media that have ravished Israel.” Like the now ill-famous BBC!

But a statement of principles proclaims that “EIBN believes the entire Bible is true, including the Great Commission that calls for all who name the name of the Lord to be a witness unto Him in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.” Trash your copy of “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”!“We have a strong belief that the rebirth of Israel in 1948, the restoration of Jerusalem in 1967 and the return of the Soviet Jews are a fulfillment of prophecy – most of which comes from the Old Testament,” Mike Evans, a Texas-based evangelist said. “So we believe what we are doing could usher in the return of the Messiah. Is that an ulterior motive? Indeed, it is; we would love the messiah to come back.” (The Jewish Week, Feb. 21, 2003)

Mr. Graham, son of the evangelist Billy Graham said last year that Islam was “a very evil and wicked religion.” Mr. Vines described Muhammad as “a demon-possessed pedophile.” (NYT, May 8, 2003) Remember Mr. Farrakhan calling Judaism a “gutter religion”? “Muhammad was a terrorist,” said Mr. Falwell

Consider in this context these facts; shortly after takeoff, Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut commented on how the colors of the sky he was now part of were the colors of his country, of his people: blue and white (the papal flag is white and yellow). And his response came not in scientific or technological jargon, and not in the talk of the flamboyant fighter pilot or the emotionless “right stuff” astronaut. His response came in the simple, stirring words he recited every night he was up there in space…”Shma Yisrael, Hashem Eloikenu, Hashem Echad.” While up in space, holding the Torah scroll while speaking via satellite to the Prime Minister of Israel, Ilan Ramon said the Torah symbolizes “more than anything the ability of the Jewish people to survive everything, including horrible periods, and go from the darkest of days to days of hope and faith in the future.” (The Jewish Herald, Friday, Feb. 14, 2003)

It was no coincidence that when Col. I. Ramon was circling the earth aboard the shuttle “Columbia” The Polish rabid anti-Semitic priest Father M. Rydzyk was licensed to set up satellite television which will continue the propaganda tradition of such men as Father Coughlin, Rev. Denis Fahey and others. The policy of the Polish Church regarding the Jews was defined by encyclical letter of Pope Benedict XIV to the Primate of Poland of 14th June, 1751. And here is the most revealing passage of this letter: “Thanks to the labours of the synods, a resplendent and glorious victory was won over the Lutherans who had tried all ways and means to obtain an entrance into and secure a footing in this Kingdom. At the great Council of Petrikau (Piotrkow), to the great glory of God, the principle of “Liberty of Conscience” was proscribed and definitely excluded from among the principles governing the public life of the Realm…Now, if any one should ask what is forbidden by the Apostolic See to Jews dwelling in the same towns as Christians, We answer that they are forbidden to do the very things they are allowed to do in the Kingdom of Poland….We have learned, from the reports of trustworthy and honourable men, you have not leased either your goods or your rights to Jews and have avoided any dealings with them in lending or borrowing…At the same time, We solemnly assure you that, when a favourable opportunity offers, We shall treat of this matter, with all the zeal and energy We can muster, with those by whose power and authority the noble Kingdom of Poland can be cleansed of this foul stain.” Indeed, the Nazi Holocaust cleansed the “noble Kingdom of Poland of the foul stain” (meaning Jews) and that explains why A. Hitler’s Mein Kampf is being sold on every street corner in John Paul II’s homeland and why such a murderous anti-Semite as Father Rydzyk received papal blessing for his atrocious propaganda, and why Italy’s ambassador to Riyadh converted to Islam…

Let me remind here that before Card. K. Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II he used to teach at the Catholic University of Lublin which is a Polish version of the Belgian Louvanium, the most anti-Semitic University of the world. Father Kruszynski, a professor of the Lublin University in 1920 explained that “racial purity created what is called an anthropological type.” Three years later, Kruszynski would write: “If the world is to be rid of the Jewish scourge, it would be necessary to exterminate them, down to the last one.” Lest such views be thought to be regarded as less than respectable among the Catholic hierarchy in Poland of the time, it is worth recalling that two years later, in 1925, Kuszynski was named head of the Catholic University of Lublin. One shoud keep in mind that Hitler’s Mein Kampf is a summary of the perennial Catholic anti-Jewish propaganda of which the Bury St. Edmund Cross is the best example. The piece of art from the renowned Winchester Cathedral in England is now in possession of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The litany of anti-Jewish hatred proclaimed by this crucifix prepared ideologically the Christian crusades. On the back of the cross, in the center, we see the Lamb of God. On the right, the bull, symbol of St. Luke (Cf. John Bull). On the left, the lion of St. Mark, and above, the eagle of St. John. The upright and crossbars are decorated with a spectacular series of prophets proclaiming by their scrolls the glory of the church triumphant. The figure on the left of the central medallion directing the spear against the Lamb, is the personification of Synagogue. She is hooded (inspiration for the Ku Klux Klan’s hoods); her head is bowed. Her eyes are closed; she seems almost blinded. With a lance, she is attempting to pierce the breast of the lamb. The writing on the scroll amounts to a twofold sign of contempt: “Accursed is who hangs upon a tree.” The Old Law prescribed that anyone who had committed a sin worthy of death should be hanged on a tree and cursed. But St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Galatians, had refuted the Old Law, saying, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law…” Paul had turned the phrase around and said, in effect, Cursed are those who say, “Accursed is he who hangs upon a tree.” The interpretation of the cross as an anti-Jewish diatribe is confirmed by the writings of the tenth-century theologian Walafrid Strabo: “No more severe accusation must fall upon the Jews, and with good reason owing to their arrogance, than they saw their life, which is the son of God, hanging upon the wood and they disbelieved Him.” Thomas Hoving who described the cross in his book King of the Confessors (1981) found that eight quotations on the cross were foundation blocks of an essay composed by St. Cyprian in the late fifth century. It was Tract Against the Jews. The content of the Tract proclaimed: “You Jews who murdered Christ, you who looked upon him and did not believe, will be cast aside through all of time, punished and destroyed.” Then the author found out that other inscriptions were taken from a large body of literature collected by the French Abbe Migne in two volumes entitled Patrologia Latina and Patrologia Graeca. In the index to one word, Iudeos he found: “Against the Jews;” “The Perfidiousness of the Jews;” “Sermon Against Jews;” “Jews as Prosecutors of Christ;” “The Second Coming of Christ Against the Jews.” The author also discovered that his favorite Christian writer, Tertullian, had written a Book Against the Jews, and Eusebius, the respected and learned historian of the early Christian Church, had written in the fourth century a number of anti-Jewish tracts and essays. In one of them he even said that he possessed clear proof that Jews of every community of the world kidnapped a boy every Easter and crucified the child in a “ritual killing.” (Recall, Y. Arafat’s wife Suha, a permanent resident of France, tried to convince The First Lady H. Clinton that the Jews are poisoning the Palestinian wells and use depleted uranium to kill the Palestinians!