and
Theologically Correct Social Policy toward the Jews
(An Exegetical Patristic and Papal Catena)
by Thomas Sparks
(begun on the Feast of the Most Precious Blood
of Our Lord JESUS Christ, A. D. 2000)
"His blood be on us, and on our children." (Saint Matthew 27:25)
"The Jews who both killed the Lord JESUS, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and
are adversaries to all men. [...] To fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the
end."
(I Thessalonians 2:15-16)
To the memory of Father Feeney, M. I. C. M.
(February 15, 1897 - January 30, 1978)
A defender of the Faith against Jewish treacheries.
Contents:
1. Introduction: the need for a clarity of vision.
A. The causes of the Jewish condition.
2. The Jews corporately murdered Christ.
3. The Jews all bear the guilt of the murder of Christ, and are cursed therefore.
3a. They all bear the guilt of deicide.
3b. They are all cursed therefore.
B. The nature of the Jewish condition
and theologically correct social policy in their regard.
4. The Jews have the curse of Cain, who is the figure of the Jews.
5. The Jews are cursed with the Cainite curse of permanently being subjugated outcasts.
5a. They are cursed to be outcasts for their deicide.
5b. They are cursed to be perpetually subjugated outcasts.
6. The Jewish curse of being the subjugated outcast is effected through national and ecclesiastical duty.
7. The Jewish curse of being the subjugated outcast is effected also through their cursed perfidy.
7a. They are cursed to be perfidious and degenerate.
7b. The same continued.
7c. This has brought about their subjugation.
7d. It has also brought about their subjugative segregation and expulsion.
C. The present situation with the cursed Jews:
cause of the problem, its nature and its solution.
8. The constant struggle between the Church and the Jew.
8a. The jew is not always completely subjugated.
8b. The necessary struggle between the Church and the Jew.
1. Introduction: the need for a clarity of vision.
We need to be realistic about who the Jews are, if we are to enact rational social policy in their regard. Catholics
have always known who the Jews are, until the Second Vatican Council obscured Catholic tradition with its vague
and outright false statements, in capitulation to the Jews' open campaign to hide Catholic teaching about them.
I mean to bring to light some aspects of traditional Catholic teaching and policy regarding the Jews. I will
detail that the Jews are cursed with subjugation and perfidy, treacherousness, for their murder of Christ - and
that the theologically correct, and socially just Catholic social policy is to subjugate them, regulate them, segregate
them and expel them; in that way, they assume their correct position and the harm they can do through their perfidy
is limited. And I shall document that the Church has always accepted and enacted this policy. Of course I speak
not here of our holy fathers in the Faith, the blessed of ancient times, but only of those Jews since the Crucifixion.
(Note: Several of the passages quoted below may be found between pages 139 and 153 of the unabridged edition of
the Apostolic Digest by Michael Malone, Sacred Heart Press, Texas, 1987; I have marked those passages with a star
(*); others compiled by Mike, but not included in that volume, I have marked with two stars (**). Quotes taken
from the tract What World Famous Men Said About the Jews by an anonymous author, are marked with three stars; and
those taken from the compendium 1001 Quotes By and About Jews, compiled by Willie Martin are marked with four stars.)
2. The Jews corporately murdered Christ.
We shall first establish that the Jews as a people murdered Christ and the prophets, as that is the necessary foundation
for a theological insight into the Jewish condition, and into the correct social policy toward them.
The Lord spoke through the prophet Zachariah as follows:
"And I will pour upon the House of David, even upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and
of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth
for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn." (Zachariah
12:10)
Christ's murderers are denoted simply "the House of David", in which we see even in the ancient prophesies,
that the Jews would kill Christ and corporately be responsible for his death. Saint Peter was even more explicit
about that:
"Be it known unto you all, even to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand before you whole." (Acts
4:10)
He attributes Christ's death to "all the people of Israel".
Saint Paul attributes to the Jews a similar corporate guilt for the death of the prophets and their persecution
of the Christians:
"For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also
have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus
Christ, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are adversaries to all men:
forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is
come upon them to the end." (I Thessalonians 2:14-6)
It is simply the "Jews" without distinction or qualification to whom the guilt and "the wrath"
is here attributed. Christ foretold that such a "wrath" was about to come upon the Jews:
"Therefore behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death
and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: That upon you may come
all the just blood that has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias
son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto, All these things shall come
upon this generation." (Saint Matthew 23:35)
But in case any should say that it was the Romans and not the Jews who killed Christ, even in the face of the preceding
passages from Scripture, (for some liberal heretics would insolently so do, though there is little one can do for
their sort) let them listen to Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Church (A. D. 430):
"Had you become so hardened, false Israelites? Were you by your excessive malice so lost to all sense, as
to imagine that you were unpolluted by the blood of the innocent, because you gave it up to be shed by another?
was even Pilate himself going to slay him with his own hands, when made over by you into his power for the very
purpose? If you did not wish Him to be slain; if you did not lay snares for Him; if you did not get Him to be
betrayed to you for money; if you did not lay hands upon Him and bind Him, and bring Him there; if you did not
with your own hands present Him, and with your voices demand Him to be slain, - then boast that He was not put
to death by you. But if in addition to all these former deeds of yours, you also cried out, "Crucify, crucify
him;" then hear what it is against you that the prophet proclaims: "the sons of men, whose teeth are
spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword." (Psalm 56:4) [...] And so all who cried out with impious
voices for the crucifixion of Christ, slew Him, not, indeed, directly with their own hands, but personally through
him who was compelled to such a crime by their clamour. [...] They were implicated in the crime from which they
tried to hold themselves aloof; for Pilate would have done no such thing, save to implement what he perceived to
be their fixed desire." (On the Gospel of Saint John 114, 115)
"Let not the Jews say, We have not crucified Christ. For to this end they gave Him to Pilate the judge, in
order that they themselves might seem as if they were guiltless of His death. For when Pilate said to them: Kill
him yourselves, they answered: It is not lawful for us to kill any man. The wickedness of their crime they wished
to cast back upon a human judge: but did they deceive the judge who is God? With regard to what Pilate did, in
the very fact that he did it, he was in some way an accomplice: but far more innocent was he than they. For he
strove as far as he could to deliver him out of their hands; for this end he scourged him, and led him forth to
them. He did not scourge the Lord to be cruel, but wishing to satisfy their fury, that even so they might at length
be appeased, and might cease to wish to kill him whom they had seen scourged. And so he did this. But when they
persisted, you know that he washed his hands and said, that he himself did not do it, that he was innocent of the
death of that man. He did it, nevertheless. But if he is guilty because he did it against his will, are they
innocent who compelled him to do it? By no means. But he gave sentence against him, and commanded him to be crucified:
and in a manner himself killed him; you also, O you Jews, killed him. Whence did you kill Him? With the sword
of the tongue: for ye did whet your tongues. And when did ye smite, except when ye cried out, "Crucify, crucify"?
[...] This is the whole of the Jews sagacity, this is that which they sought as some great matter. Let us kill
and let us not kill: so let us kill, as that we may not ourselves be judged to have killed." (On the Psalms
63:4,5; Matins of Good Friday)
Hence, we see that the Jews were scheming to deceive even as they murdered Christ, and would try to hide their
responsibility by using Pilate: their deceit, and that of their lackeys, thus extends to this day. "I did
not kill him; it was the gun: I only pointed it and pulled the trigger. The bullet did it; not me." Such
is the blasphemous logic of men who would contradict Catholic teaching to flatter the Jews. But Pilate and the
Romans were merely an instrument of Jewish aggression, even as a gun is an instrument that a man may use to kill;
the one who employs the instrument is guilty of its use; the Jews killed Christ. The Fathers of the Church had
no time for Jewish deceit:
Saint John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church (A. D. 407): "What could be more grievous than these things?
What more insulting? For the things that were done go beyond all language. For as though they were afraid lest
they should seem to fall short at all in the crime, having killed the prophets with their own hands, but this man
with the sentence of a judge, so they do in every deed; and make it the work of their own hands, and condemn and
sentence both among themselves and before Pilate, saying: "His blood be on us and on our children," and
insult Him, and do despite unto Him themselves, binding Him, leading Him away, and render themselves authors of
the spiteful acts done by the soldiers, and nail Him to the cross, and revile Him, and spit at Him, and deride
Him. For Pilate contributed nothing in this matter, but they themselves did everything, becoming accusers, and
judges, and executioners, and all." (On the Gospel of Saint Matthew 87)
3. The Jews all bear the guilt of the murder of Christ, and are cursed therefore.
3a. They all bear the guilt of deicide.
All Jews bear the guilt of Christ's murder. Let us again hear the voice of tradition. Saint Cyprian (A. D. 258)
tells us that they are a "sinful nation, a people weighed down with guilt" as they "cruelly executed"
Christ:
"Nor is it sufficient that we call Him who is in Heaven "Father." We must add to the name "Our
Father." This name rebukes and condemns the Jews who not only spurned Christ faithlessly, but also cruelly
executed Him Who was announced to them by the prophets, and sent first to their nation. No longer may they call
God their Father, because the Lord confounds and refutes them, saying: "your father is the devil" (Saint
John 8:44). O sinful nation, O people weighed down with guilt, breed of evil-doers, lawless children, you have
turned your backs on the Lord and have provoked the Holy One of Israel." (The Lord's Prayer *)
Saint Augustine tells us that the Jews "through their fathers" killed Christ, that their fathers are
the instrumental cause of their guiltiness; thus all Jews, even those alive today, mistreated Christ and so "bear
the guilt"; they are Christ's killers, every one of them:
"Judaism, since Christ, is a corruption; indeed, Judas is the image of the Jewish people: their understanding
of Scripture is carnal; they bear the guilt for the death of the Saviour, for through their fathers they have killed
Christ. The Jews held Him; the Jews insulted Him; the Jews bound Him; they crowned Him with thorns and dishonoured
Him by spitting upon Him; they scourged him; they heaped abuses upon Him; they hung him upon a tree." (*)
Saint Basil, Doctor (A. D. 379) tell us that the Jews "inherit the blood-guiltiness of their fathers",
and are for that reason, for all ages, "stained with [the] blood" of Christ:
"If someone should kill the beloved son of a man, and then stretch forth their hands still stained with blood
to the afflicted father, asking for fellowship, would not the blood of his son, still visible on the hand of his
murderer, provoke him to just anger instead? And such are the prayers of the Jews, for when they stretch forth
their hands in prayer, they only remind God-the-Father of their sin against His Son. And at every stretching-forth
of their hands, they only make it obvious that they are stained with the blood of Christ. For they who persevere
in their blindness inherit the blood-guiltiness of their fathers; for they cried out: "His blood be upon us,
and upon our children."" (On Prayer *)
Indeed, they have inherited the responsibility and guilt of Judas' acts, as well as of those of the others at the
crucifixion, as we see in the traditional Good Friday liturgy; every unconverted Jew betrayed Christ to chief priests
with a kiss, "through" their father:
"O my people, what have I done to you; wherein have I offended you? Answer me. I led you out of Egypt and
drowned Pharao in the Red Sea; and you have betrayed me to the chief priests." (Good Friday Reproaches)
Quite clearly, the Jews have a blood-guiltiness for their deicide, they have the guilt of that act. But let not
anyone disavow the concept of the transmission of guilt from one person to another in certain instances. Indeed,
it was to redeem us from such guilt that Christ died. All are yet born with the guilt of Adam's sin, which guilt
is sufficient for their damnation unless it is removed through baptismal regeneration: original sin is in them
as their own, as was defined ex cathedra at the Council of Trent (A. D. 1563):
"If any one asserts that this sin of Adam, which is one in origin and transmitted to all [and] is in each
one as his own by propagation, not by imitation, is taken away either by [...] For, as indeed, men would not be
born unjust, if they were not born through propagation of the seed of Adam, since by that propagation they contract
through him, in conception, injustice as their own, so unless they were born again in Christ [...]" (Denzinger
790, 795)
Hence, it is that King David and Saint Paul were able to write:
"Behold, I was conceived in iniquities; and in sin did my mother conceive me." (Psalm 50:7)
"By one man sin entered into this world, (and by sin death, and so death passed upon all men,) in whom all
have sinned." (Romans 5:12)
As the Jews have the guilt of Christ's murder, they will be punished for it after death, unless they are converted:
Origen (A. D. 253): "On account of their unbelief, and the other insults which they heaped upon Jesus, the
Jews will [...] suffer more than others in that judgement which is believed to be impending over the world."
(Against Celsus 2:8)
Saint Amphilocius of Iconium (A. D. 400): "It may be that the Jews, looking for another Christ, will laugh
at our wisdom; for of them the prophet has rightly said: "Their sepulchres shall be their houses forever"
(Psalm 48:12). They laugh now, but they shall weep, for they shall weep when they look upon Him "Whom they
have pierced." (Zacharias 12:10)" (Oration 5 *)
3b. They are all cursed therefore.
The guilty Jews are now collectively cursed for the murder of Christ, as the Church has always held and taught:
Pope Clement VIII (A. D. 1605): "The Bible itself says that the Jews are an accursed people."
The Jews themselves called out for such a curse. Pilate said that he was innocent of Christ's blood and that the
Jews would have to "see to it" themselves; it was their will that Christ should be murdered, and it would
have to be their doing and their responsibility. The Jews eagerly asserted that it would be so, and invoked the
curse upon themselves and their children:
"I am innocent of the blood of this just person, see ye to it. Then answered all the people, and said, His
blood be on us, and on our children. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered
him to be crucified." (Saint Matthew 27:24-6)
Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor of the Universal Church (A. D. 1274) wrote, following Saint Jerome, Doctor
(A. D. 420):
"Pilate took water in accordance with that, I will wash my hands in innocency, (Psalm 25:6), in a manner testifying
and saying, I indeed have sought to deliver this innocent man, but since a tumult is rising, and the charge of
treason to Ceasar is urged against me, I am innocent of the blood of this just man. The judge who is thus compelled
to give sentence against the Lord, does not convict the accused, but the accusers, pronouncing innocent Him who
is to be crucified. See ye to it, as though he had said, I am the law's minister, it is your voice that has shed
this blood. Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children. This imprecation
rests at the present day upon the Jews: the Lord's blood is not removed from them." (Catena Aurea, ad loc.)
Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori (A. D. 1787), Doctor of the Church, wrote of it thus:
"Poor Jews! You invoked a dreadful curse upon your own heads in saying: "His blood be on us and on our
children"; and that curse miserable race, you carry upon you to this day, and to the end of time you shall
endure the chastisement of that innocent blood." (The Passion and Death of Jesus Christ *)
The Bible teaches elsewhere too that the Jews corporately bear the guilt of the crucifixion and are cursed therefore.
Moses (circa 1190 B. C.) prophesied that the Jews would be severely cursed when they turned from God; who would
doubt from this that they would be cursed for murdering Christ, and that the passage applies principally to that?
"But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all
His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all the curses shall come upon thee, and overtake
thee: cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shalt thou be in thy basket
and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and
the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
&c." (Deuteronomy 28:15-9)
And indeed, this passage has many times been applied to them corporately, such as by Saint Agobard (A. D. 840):
"Jews are cursed and covered with malediction as by a cloak. The curse has penetrated them like water in
their bowels and oil in their bones. They are cursed in the city and cursed in the country, cursed in their coming
in and in their going out. Cursed are the fruits of their loins, of their lands, of their flocks; cursed are their
cellars, their granaries, their shops, their food, the very crumbs off their tables." (*)
And there is also prophesy in the Psalms written by King David (1015 B. C.), which clearly foretells such a pervading
curse upon the Jews due to the crucifixion; we shall see this Psalm a lot, and I shall give the authoritative latin
Vulgate text as we consider it:
"Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for someone to take pity, but there
was none; and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
me vinegar to drink. Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto
them: let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always. Pour out thine indignation
upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate: and let none dwell
in their tents. For they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the
book of the living, and not be written with the righteous." (Psalm 68:20-8)
Of course, it was the Jews who gave Christ "gall for meat and vinegar to drink", in being corporately
responsible, as we have seen, for the occurrences at the crucifixion; indeed, in the traditional Good Friday Reproaches,
it is said: "I gave you the water of salvation from the rock to drink [Numbers 20]; and you have given me
gall and vinegar." (Maryknoll Missal, 1960, p. 355) They broke his heart with their perfidy.
"And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of the skull, they gave him
vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. [...] When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." (Saint Matthew
27:34; Saint John 19:30)
The Apostle showed that the passage, and the curse, applies to them:
"What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the
rest were blinded (according as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should
not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare,
and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them: let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
and bow down their back alway." (Romans 11:7-10)
And indeed, Christ cursed the Jews corporately, in the figure of the fig-tree:
"And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when
he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not. And Jesus answered and said unto it,
No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. [...] And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig-tree
dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou
cursest is withered away." (Saint Mark 11:13-4, 21-2)
We have here the vineyard type of parable - though one enacted - in which the Jewish nation is collectively represented
under the figure of a single plant. Let us hear the first Doctor of the Church, Saint Athanasius (A. D. 373):
"But Israel despised and would not render, for their will was not right, nay moreover they killed those that
were sent, and not even before the Lord of the vineyard were they ashamed, but even He was slain by them. Verily,
when he came and found no fruit in them, he cursed them through the fig-tree, saying, "Let there be henceforth
no fruit from thee;" and the fig-tree was dead and fruitless, so that even the disciples wondered when it
withered away.
"Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by the prophet; "I will take away from them the voice of joy
and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the scent of myrrh, and the
light of a lamp, and the whole land shall be destroyed." (Jeremiah 25:10) For the whole service of the law
has been abolished from them, and henceforth and forever they remain without a feast. And they observe not the
Passover; for how can they? They have no abiding place, but they wander everywhere. [...] But in every place
they transgress the law, and as the judgements of God require, they keep days of grief instead of gladness. Now
the cause of this to them was the slaying of the Lord, and that they did not reverence the Only-Begotten. [...]
Therefore the Lord cursed them under the figure of the fig-tree." (Letter 6, Easter 334)
And there, the Doctor draws our attention to that the Jews are cursed partly in that it became impossible for them
to fulfil their obligations, when the temple was destroyed. The Apostle indicated the same, as was recognized
by the Fathers (eg. Saint Augustine, Reply to Faustinus the Manichaean XII:11, and The Constitutions of the Holy
Apostle VI:25, both quoted below later):
"For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. [...] For I testify again to
every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law." (Galatians 3:10; 5:3)
So, we see that the Bible teaches that the Jews are cursed for the crucifixion, when it is read in the light of
traditional teaching, as it should be.
Blessed Juliana of Norwhich (A. D. 1423): "I knew in my faith that the Jews were accursed and condemned without
end, except those who were converted." (Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love *)
4. The Jews have the curse of Cain, who is the figure of the Jews.
We have established that all Jews are guilty of Christ's death, and are cursed therefore in divers ways. It now
behooves us to begin to focus our attention on how that curse informs us as to the correct social policy toward
them. The Jews have the curse of fratricidal Cain, who is their figure:
Saint Augustine: "Only when a Jew comes over to Christ, he is no longer Cain, nor goes out from the presence
of God, nor dwells in the land of Nod, which is said to mean commotion." (Reply to Faustus the Manichaean
XII:13)
The type of Cain affords us much illustration as to Jewish reality, as he is a metaphor of them, as well as being
an historically actual person. Let us introduce the narrative of his curse, and then we shall begin to see how
the Fathers applied it to the Jews.
"And in the process of time, it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto
the Lord. And Abel, he also brought the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect
unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and unto his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth,
and his countenance fell. [...] And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in
the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him." (Genesis 4:3-5, 8)
Plainly, Abel is the type of Christ - and homicidal Cain of the Jews.
Saint Augustine: "Abel, the younger brother, is killed by the elder brother; Christ the head of the younger
people, is killed by the elder people of the Jews. Abel dies in the field; Christ dies on Calvary.
"God asks Cain where his brother is, not as if He did not know, but as a judge asks a guilty criminal. Cain
replies that he knows not, and that he is not his brother's keeper. And what answer can the Jews give at this
day, when we ask them with the voice of God, that is, of the Sacred Scriptures, about Christ, except that they
do not know the Christ we speak of? Cain's ignorance was pretended, and the Jews are deceived in their refusal
of Christ. [...] Then God says to Cain, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto
me from the ground." So the voice of God in the Holy Scriptures accuses the Jews. For the blood of Christ
has a loud voice on the earth, when the responsive Amen of those who believe in Him comes from all nations. This
is the voice of Christ's blood, because the clear voice of the faithful redeemed by His blood is the voice of the
blood itself.
"Then God says to Cain: "Thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's
blood at thy hand." [...] So the unbelieving people of the Jews is cursed from the earth, that is, from the
Church, which in the confession of sins has opened its mouth to receive the blood shed for the remission of sins
by the hand of the people who would not be under grace, but under the law. And this murderer is cursed by the
Church; that is, the Church admits and avows the curse pronounced by the Apostle: "Whoever are of the works
of the law are under the curse of the law."" (Reply to Faustinus the Manichaean XII:10-11)
Just as Cain was cursed, typologically "so the unbelieving people of the Jews is cursed", "this
murderer".
Saint Irenaeus (A. D. 202): "For at the beginning, God had respect to the gifts of Abel, because he offered
with single-mindedness and righteousness; but he had no respect unto the offering of Cain, because his heart was
divided with envy and malice, which he cherished against his brother, as God says, when reproving his hidden thoughts:
"Though thou offerest rightly, yet, if thou dost not divide rightly, hast thou not sinned? Be at rest."
[...] For while they were thought to offer correctly so far as the outward appearance went, they had in themselves
jealousy like unto Cain; therefore they slew the Just One, slighting the counsel of the Word, as did Cain."
(Against the Heresies IV:18)
There is a number of parallels between Cain and the Jews. The envious murder by Cain was all the more grievous
because it was of his own brother; even so, the Jews killed their own, even their God who had done so much for
them, and their rightful king: "He came unto His own, but His own received Him not." (Saint John 1:11)
The Jews were jealous that He is the Christ: as in the parable of the vineyard where they said: "come, let
us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance." (Saint Matthew 21:38). They wanted what He had, and were
jealous. And what did He have? He had the dignity of being the Christ, of offering atonement for the sins of
the world. In effect, they were jealous of His Sacrifice, like Cain was jealous of Abel's sacrifice; and out of
this jealousy they killed, "as did Cain": "For he knew that for envy they had delivered him."
(Saint Matthew 27:18)
And like Cain is the figure of the Jews in their murderous crime and their guilt, he is also the figure of the
Jews in their punishment.
5. The Jews are cursed with the Cainite curse of permanently being subjugated outcasts.
5a. They are cursed to be outcasts for their deicide.
Hence, we have established that the Jews are essentially cursed for their guilt with the curse of Cain; we shall
now elaborate upon that condition. Cain was to be an outcast for his murder, "driven out", "a fugitive
and a vagabond":
"And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond
shalt thou be on the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold thou
hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive
and a vagabond in the earth." (Genesis 4:11-4)
So it is with the Jews; they are cursed to be outcasts too, for their deicide:
Saint Augustine: "Only when a Jew comes over to Christ, he is no longer Cain, nor goes out from the presence
of God, nor dwells in the land of Nod, which is said to mean commotion. Against this evil of commotion the Psalmist
prays, "Suffer not my feet to be moved;" and again, "Let not the hands of the wicked remove me;"
and again, "Those that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved;" and, "The Lord is at my right hand,
that I should not be moved."" (Reply to Faustus the Manichaean XII:13)
Pope Innocent III (A. D. 1216): "The Lord made Cain a wanderer and a fugitive over the earth, but set a mark
upon him, making his head to shake, lest anyone finding him should slay him. Thus the Jews, against whom the blood
of Christ calls out, although they ought not to be killed, nevertheless, as wanderers they must remain upon the
earth until their faces are filled with shame and they seek the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." (Epistle to
the Count of Nevers *)
Saint Sulpicius Severus (A. D. 425): "Jews are beheld scattered throughout the whole world: they have been
punished for no other reason than for the impious hands they laid on Christ." (On Chronicles II *)
They soon began to be outcasts for their murder of Christ, even as the King David prophesied:
"Effunde super eos iram tuam; et furor irae tuae comprehendat eos. Fiat habitatio eorum deserta; et in tabernaculis
eorum non sit qui inhabitet. Quoniam quem tu percussisti persecuti sunt, et super dolorem vulnerum meorum addiderunt."
(Vulgate)
"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. [...] Pour out thine
indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate: and let
none dwell in their tents. For they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten." (Psalm 68:21, 24-25)
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would
I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold,
your house is left unto you desolate." (Saint Luke 13:34-5)
Saint Hippolytus (A. D. 235): "And whereas thou didst pour out His blood in indignation, hear what thy recompense
shall be: "Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take behold of them;" and,
"Let their habitation be desolate," to wit, their celebrated temple. [...] But why, O prophet, tell
us and for what reason, was the temple made desolate? [...] It was because they killed the Son of their Benefactor:
for He is coeternal with the Father. Whence He saith, "Father, let their temple be made desolate; for they
have persecuted Him whom thou didst of Thine own will smite for the salvation of the world."" (Against
the Jews 6, 7)
Saint Augustine: ""Let their habitation become desolate, and in their habitation let their be not anyone
to inhabit." There hath come to pass this thing in the very city Jerusalem, wherein they thought themselves
mighty in crying against the Son of God, "Crucify, Crucify;" and in prevailing because they were able
to kill Him that raised dead men. How mighty to themselves, how great, they seemed! There followed afterward
the vengeance of the Lord: stormed was the city, utterly conquered the Jews, slain were I know not how many thousands
of men. [...] Why so? "For Him whom Thou hast smitten they themselves have persecuted, and upon the pain
of my wounds they have added."" (On the Psalms: 68, 26-27)
Tertullian (A. D. 220): "Since, therefore, the Jews were predicted as destined to suffer these calamities
on Christ's account, and we find that they have suffered them, and see them sent into dispersion and abiding in
it, it is manifest that it is on Christ's account that these things have befallen the Jews, the sense of the Scriptures
harmonizing with the issue of events and of the order of the times." (An Answer to the Jews 13)
Origen: "What nation is an exile from their own city, and from the place sacred to the worship of their fathers,
save the jews alone? And these calamities they have suffered, because they were a most wicked nation, which, although
guilty of many other sins, yet has been punished so severely for none, as for those that were committed against
our Jesus." (Against Celsus II:8)
5b. They are cursed to be perpetually subjugated outcasts.
They began to be subjugated when they were expelled from Jerusalem:
Origen: "For forty and two years, I think, after the date of the crucifixion of Christ, did the destruction
of Jerusalem take place. Now it has never been recorded, since the Jewish nation began to exist, that they have
been expelled for so long a period from their venerable temple-worship and service, and enslaved by more powerful
nations." (Against Celsus IV:22)
Saint Augustine: "Under His displeasure, they were oft-times given into the power of their enemies. And now,
indeed, on account of their most heinous sin in putting Christ to death, they have been thoroughly rooted out of
Jerusalem itself, which was the capital of their kingdom, and have been made subject to the Roman empire."
(The Harmony of the Gospels I:12)
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (early centuries): "Because, indeed, they drew servitude upon themselves
voluntarily, when they said, "We have no king but Caesar;" (Saint John 19:15) and, "If we do not
slay Christ, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and will take away both our place and our nation."
(11:48) And so they prophesied unwittingly. For accordingly the nations believed on Him, and they themselves
were deprived by the Romans of their power, and of their legal worship; and they have been forbidden to slay what
they please, and to sacrifice when they will. Wherefore, they are accursed, as not able to perform the things
they are commanded to do." (VI:25)
Their subjugation is part of their curse; it is a recompense for their perfidious betrayal of Christ, whereby they
merited permanent subjection, as the King David prophesied:
"Et dederunt in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto. Fiat mensa eorum coram ipsis in laqueum,
et in retributiones, et in scandalum. Obscurentur oculi eorum, ne videant; et dorsum eorum semper incurva."
(Vulgate)
"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table be made
a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto them: let their eyes be darkened, that they may
not see, and bow down their back always." (Psalm 68:21-23)
"Israel [...] And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a
recompense unto them: let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back always."
(Romans 11:7-10)
Saint Hippolytus: "Furthermore, hear this yet more serious word: "And there do thou bend always;"
that means, in order that they may be slaves to the nations, not four hundred and thirty years as in Egypt, nor
seventy as in Babylon, but bend them to servitude, he says, "always." In fine, then, how dost thou indulge
vain hopes, expecting to be delivered from the misery which beholdeth thee? For that is somewhat strange. And
not unjustly has he imprecated this blindness of eyes upon thee. But because thou didst cover the eyes of Christ
when thou dist beat Him, for this reason, too, bend thou thy back for servitude always." (Against the Jews
6)
Saint Augustine: "Hence, they [disputants] cannot meet us fairly with this question: "Why, then, did
the God of the Hebrews, whom you declare to be the supreme and true God, not only not subdue the Romans under their
power, but even fail to secure those Hebrews themselves against subjugation by the Romans?" For there were
open sins of theirs that went before them, and on account of which the prophets so long ago predicted that this
very thing would overtake them; and above all, the reason lay in the fact, that in their impious fury they put
Christ to death." (The Harmony of the Gospels I:13)
Saint Augustine: ""Groaning and trembling shalt thou be on the earth." [So he says, God told Cain;
which is also a variant reading of Psalm 68:23 which the English translation of Augustine may have imposed.] Here
no one can fail to see that in every land where the Jews are scattered, they mourn for the loss of their kingdom,
and are in terrified subjection to the immensely superior number of Christians. [...] So to the end of the seven
days of time, the continued preservation of the Jews will be a proof to believing Christians of the subjection
merited by those who, in the pride of their kingdom, put the Lord to death." (Reply to Faustinus the Manichaean
XII:12)
Saint John Chrysostom: "The Jew will live under the yoke of slavery without end. God hates the Jews."
(Six Homilies Against the Jews *)
Their subjugation has been effected in various ways through history; I shall quote from the April 1956 edition
of Father Feeney's The Point:
"Successive Roman emperors continued the suppression, and after the break-up of the Empire, Jews came to be
looked upon as the "property" of the many feudal princes, who tolerated or expelled them at their pleasure.
[...] By the year 1006, ghettoes had already been established in Bavaria, and the special "Jew tax"
was everywhere exacted. This followed upon the universally accepted principle (later taught by the Church's eminent
theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas) that all property of the Jews belongs by right to the temporal ruler who suffers
them in his domains. The year 1511 saw the accession of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who referred to the
Jews as "belonging to the royal treasury," and expended them accordingly. [...] The right of citizenship,
withheld from Jews in every country during all Christian ages, was not allowed to them until the triumph of the
Masonic, anti-Christian principles of the French Revolution in 1789. Thus, Jews were not granted citizenship in
France until 1791, in Holland until 1796, in Belgium until 1815, in Denmark until 1849, in England until 1858,
in Switzerland until 1865, in Austria-Hungary until 1867, in Germany until 1870, and in Russia until 1917."
Saint Thomas Aquinas: "Jews, in consequence of their sin, are or were [depending on how you look at it] destined
to perpetual slavery; so that sovereigns of states may treat their goods as their own property; with the sole proviso
that they do not deprive them of all that is necessary to sustain life." (On the Governance of the Jews; The
Point, February 1955, Christian Defence League, 1993, Arabi, LA)
Hence, they are cursed to be subjugated outcasts; as King David prophesied in another messianic Psalm:
"The mighty are gathered against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin O Lord. [...] Swords are in
their lips. [...] Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by your power, and bring them down O God
our shield." (Psalm 58)
Saint Bernard, Doctor (A. D. 1153): "Jews are the living words of Scripture for us, for they remind us always
of what Our Lord suffered. They are dispersed all over the world, so that, by expiating their crime, they may
every where be the living witnesses of our redemption. [...] Wherefore, the Church says: "Scatter them by
Thy power and bring them down, O Lord." These words have been fulfilled literally: the Jews are dispersed,
humbled, and reduced to hard servitude." (*)
Saint Augustine: "One might fear this, were it not for the widely spread and widely known people of the Jews;
that Cain, with the mark that he should not be killed by anyone; that Ham, the servant of his brethren, carrying
as a load the books for their instruction. From the Jewish manuscripts we prove that these things were not written
by us to suit the event, but were long ago published and preserved as prophesies in the Jewish nation." (Reply
to Faustus the Manichaean XIII:10)
Saint Augustine: "The Jews wander over the entire earth, their backs bent and their eyes cast downward, forever
calling to our minds the curse they carry with them." (Against the Jews *)
This is the fourth, final and permanent earthly captivity of the Jews in bondage:
Saint John Chrysostom: "Now it is time to come back to the question we proposed for investigation, namely,
the Jews' present slavery and their bondage of today. [...] Indeed, the Jews three times endured bondage, very
harsh and most severe: but none of these came upon them unpredicted. [...] First, I shall speak of the prediction
of their slavery in Egypt. Surely, in speaking to Abraham, God said: "Know for certain that your posterity
will be strangers in a land not their own; they shall be subjected to slavery and shall be oppressed four hundred
years." [...] Come now and let us turn our discussion to the second captivity. What one is that? The bondage
in Babylon. Jeremiah certainly foretold it exactly when he said: "Thus says the Lord: Only after seventy
years have elapsed for Babylon will I visit you and fulfil for you my promise to bring you back to this place."
[...] What, then, is this third captivity? It is the bondage that came upon them in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes.
[...] Many years later Antiochus burned the temple, laid waste the holy of holies, put an end to the sacrifices,
subjected the Jews, and destroyed their whole state. [...] When the prophets predicted the other captivities,
they spoke not only of the captivity but also of the length of time it was appointed for each bondage to last;
for this present captivity, however, they set no time but, to the contrary, said that the desolation would endure
until the end." (Fifth Homily Against the Jews)
6. The Jewish curse of being the subjugated outcast is effected through national and ecclesiastical duty.
As the Jews merited cursed temporal subjection forever, it is morally right and just that they be subjugated; such
temporal subjection is the merited will of God. The moral principle is recognised in society: criminals are, for
crimes of sufficient gravity, deprived of liberty, imprisoned, even subjugated to extraordinary temporal control,
as just punishment. The Church, of course, recognises this moral principle; and this is so with regard to the
Jews too:
Pope Innocent III: "Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection." (Epistle to the Hierarchy
of France *)
Pope Innocent III: "It is fitting for Jews to serve Christians, but not for Christians to serve Jews. On
the contrary, the Jews, as servants rejected by that Saviour Whose death they wickedly contrived, should recognize
themselves in fact and in creed the servants of those whom the death of Christ has set free, even as it has rendered
them bondmen." ("Etsi Judaeos," a Decretal cited by Pope Benedict XIV **)
He says that the Jews should recognise themselves to be "in fact and in creed" subject to Christians.
It is, "in creed" that they should be subjugated: that is to say that it is a revealed doctrine taught
by the Church and professed by all the faithful. And it "ought" to be "in fact" too: which
is to say that the subjugation ought to be actualised in society, so that the Jew is forced to take his correct
place as the subjugated servant.
The Church and the social institutions of the nations have the duty to ensure that the Jew is the subjugated outcast
for all time; and in this manner, God uses the dutiful Church and nations to punish the Jews. As Saint John Chrysostom,
Patriarch of Constantinople and one of the four great eastern Doctors of the Church said:
"The Jews are the most worthless of all men. They are perfidious murderers of Christ. They worship the devil;
their religion is sickness. The Jews are the odious assassins of Christ and for killing God there is no expiation
possible, no indulgence or pardon. Christians may never cease vengeance, and the Jew must live in servitude forever.
God always hated the Jews. It is incumbent upon all Christians to hate the Jews." ("The Point, 1958,
Father Leonard Feeney, SJ", Christian Defence League, 1993, Arabi, LA, frontispiece.)
As well as "loving" the Jews of the Christian era, and wishing their conversion and salvation, we must
also "hate" them and seek their subjugation as God wishes. The dutiful Church has historically done
so; she looks to the state, her civil arm, to enact the subjugation of the Jews:
Pope Gregory IX (A. D. 1241): "They ought to know the yoke of perpetual enslavement because of their guilt.
See to it that the perfidious Jews never in the future become insolent, but that they always suffer publicly the
shame of their sin in servile fear." (Epistle to the Hierarchy of Germany *)
He instructed the rulers to "see to it" that their merited temporal subjection is for all time actualised;
such is a godly, moral and rational social order. Thus the Church and state have historically cooperated to dutifully
effect the desired temporal subjugation that the Jews deserve for their guilt of deicide. The state has the duty
to enact the Church's ordinance, which in a correctly ordered society, issues directives as to the form their subjugation
should take, and censures any disobedient civil servants:
Third Lateran Council (A. D. 1179): "We declare that the evidence of Christians is to be accepted against
Jews in every case, since Jews employ their own witnesses against Christians - and that those who prefer Jews to
Christians in this matter are to lie under anathema, since Jews ought to be subject to Christians and to be supported
by them on the grounds of humanity alone."
We have seen that the Jew merited also to ever be an outcast as part of his subjugation: he is in his fourth and
permanent exile in slavery. The dutiful Church has ever sought to enact that he is ever segregated. She has ever
forbidden her faithful to mix with the Jew:
Council of Elvira (A. D. 300): "Indeed, if anyone of the clergy or faithful has taken a meal with the Jews,
it is determined that, as a corrective punishment, he is to abstain from Communion so that he may be reformed."
(Canon 50 *)
Council of Quinisext (A. D. 692): "Let no one in the priestly order nor any layman eat the unleavened bread
of the Jews, nor have any familiar doings with them, nor summon them in illness, nor receive medicines from them,
nor bathe with them; but if anyone shall take in hand to do so, if he is a cleric, let him be deposed, but if a
layman, let him be cut off."
Blessed Bernardine of Feltre (A. D. 1494): "Canon law forbids all doings with Jews." (*)
This segregation has pervaded society. I shall quote from the February 1955 issue of The Point:
"The following general ordinances were enforced throughout Christendom, in order to guarantee that intercourse
between Christians and Jews be kept at an absolute minimum: Jews were denied citizenship. They were forbidden
to serve in the army, possess weapons, and attend the universities. They were excluded from public baths while
Catholics were there and were forbidden to frequent public pleasure places. Jews were never to give testimony
as witnesses in court, and they were denied membership in all trade corporations and guilds of artisans. [...]
One of the most successful means for segregating the Jews was found in the institution of the ghettos. These
were not formally ordered by the Papacy until the sixteenth century, though they had been adopted earlier in many
Catholic localities. In Spain, for example, the Castilian Ghetto Edict was passed in the year 1412."
England is an instance of a country where ghettoes were established to segregate the Jews prior to their expulsion
from this land at the end of the Thirteenth Century:
"Their religion set them apart from the rest of the population of the country. [...] The whole of ordinary
life was conducted on the supposition that men were members of the same religious body. The Jews did not fit into
this framework and so had to live a life apart. They were allowed to live only in certain wards of the larger
towns, which were known as "Jewries." They were required also to wear a special dress or a badge of
yellow cloth on the breast. They were considered to be living in the country not by common right but by special
consent of the king and under his protection. They were subject, therefore, not to the common law but to special
regulations made for them by the king or his officers." (Edward P. Cheyney, A Short History of England ****).
Blessed Pope Pius IX (A. D. 1878) was the last (for the time being) of Europe's rulers to keep the Jews in ghettos,
here in the Papal States.
7. The Jewish curse of being the subjugated outcast is effected also through their cursed perfidy.
7a. They are cursed to be perfidious.
So, the Jews merit ever to be subjugated outcasts, and the Church and the nations have the moral and godly duty
to enact that subjugation. However, the nations oft do not listen to the Church, though they ought always to.
They have another motive to enact the subjugation, viz. the behaviour of the Jews, or more fundamentally, their
cursed character which accounts for that behaviour. They are "the perfidious Jews", as is declared in
the traditional Good Friday Latin Rite Mass of the Presanctified during the divers collects:
"Let us pray for the perfidious Jews: that Our Lord and God may take away the veil from their hearts, that
they may know Our Lord Jesus Christ"; in the original latin this reads: "Oremus et pro perfidis Judaeis"
(Liber Usualis 1949, p. 703).
Pope Gregory IX: "See to it that the perfidious Jews never in the future become insolent." (Epistle to
the Hierarchy of Germany *)
"Perfidy" is "treachery", "faithlessness". The Collins Gem Latin Dictionary (1996)
says that "perfidia" means "treachery, dishonesty", and that "perfidus" means "treacherous,
faithless" (p. 252); and the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary (1960) says that "perfidious"
means "faithless, unfaithful, basely violating faith" (p. 805). "The perfidious Jews" are
both infidels and treacherous, with the principal emphasis being on treachery.
They remain perfidious because of their guilt:
Saint John Chrysostom: "They are [...] perfidious [...] Why are the Jews degenerate? Because of their hateful
assassination of Christ. This supreme crime lies at the root of their degradation and woes." (Six Homilies
Against the Jews *)
The causative relation between their deicide and their perfidy is a guilt to punishment relation: they corporately
have the guilt of deicide, and perfidy is a punishment for that guilt. God has given them up to perfidy.
This may be understood by comparison with Adam's punishment for his sin. When Adam sinned against God, his sin
was one of calling into question what God had revealed and of disobedience; his punishment was according to his
sin. He was given up to spiritual blindness, no longer knowing what God had revealed; and he was weakened in his
ability to obey God. His former knowledge, and strength and healthiness of will, in which he had been constituted,
were dependent upon the grace which elevated his nature; when much of this unmerited grace was withdrawn in punishment
for his sin, his intellect was obscured, particularly in his loss of knowledge of divine matters, and his free
will was weakened and debased in its powers with the addition of concupiscence, a will to disobedience. He was
given up to the condition which he freely chose; such is the justice of God. And so are his descendants, who have
inherited his guilt: they are given up to his chosen condition.
So it is with the Jews. Their grievous sin was to betray Christ out of jealousy, and to have Him killed, He to
Whom they owed so much; it was terrible ungrateful treachery, as we see in the Good Friday Reproaches:
"O my people, what have I done to you, or in what have I offended you? Answer me. Because I led you out
of the land of Egypt, you have prepared a cross for your saviour. [...] Because I led you through the desert for
forty years, and fed you with manna, and brought you into a land exceedingly good, you have prepared a cross for
your saviour. [...] What more ought I to have done for you than I have done? I planted you, indeed, as my most
beautiful vineyard and you have become excessively bitter to me. For in my thirst you have given me vinegar to
drink, and with a lance you have pierced the side of your saviour. [...] For your sake I scourged Egypt through
its first-born; and you have scourged me and betrayed me. O my people, what have I done to you; wherein have I
offended you? Answer me. I led you out of Egypt and drowned Pharao in the Red Sea; and you have betrayed me to
the chief priests. O my people, what [...] I opened the sea before you, and you have opened my side with a lance.
O my people, what [...] I went before you in a pillar of cloud; and you have led me before the judgement-seat
of Pilate. O my people, what [...] I fed you with manner in the desert; and you heaped blows and scourges upon
me. O my people, what [...] I gave you the water of salvation from the rock to drink; and you have given me gall
and vinegar. O my people, what [...] For your sakes I struck the kings of the Chanaanites; and you have struck
my head with a reed. O my people, what [...] I gave you a royal sceptre; and you have put on my head a crown
of thorns. O my people, what [...] I have exalted you with great strength; and you have hung me on the gibbet
of the cross. O my people, what have I done to you, or in what have I offended you? Answer me." (cf. Maryknoll
Missal, 1960, pp. 354-356)
The Jews have inherited both the guilt and the punishment of deicide from their fathers: as punishment, they are
given up to the grievous perfidy that they corporately chose when they betrayed Christ. Grace was not wholly withdrawn
for the original sin, some remained; the grace which helps man to be trustworthy, grateful, friendly - not perfidious
- has been further withdrawn from the Jews. They are now given over to their natural perfidy, even as others have
been given up to their sinful tendencies:
"Wherefore God also gave them up unto uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts." (Romans 1:24)
"Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven." (Acts 7:42)
Saint Thomas Aquinas explained the sort of thing, when answering the question of whether one sin can be the punishment
of another:
"Sin can be the punishment of sin accidentally [in distinction from its "essential" origin in free
will] in three ways. First, when one sin is the cause of another, by removing an impediment thereto. For passions,
temptations of the devil, and the like are the causes of sin, but are impeded by the help of Divine grace, which
is withdrawn on account of sin. Wherefore, since the withdrawal of grace is a punishment, and is from God, the
result is that the sin which ensures from this is also a punishment accidentally. It is in this sense that the
Apostle speaks (Romans 1:24) when he says: Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, ie. to their
passions; because, to wit, when men are deprived of the help of Divine grace, they are overcome by their passions.
In this way, sin is always said to be the result of a preceding sin." (Summa Theologica I, II, 87, 2)
Saint Bonaventure, Doctor (A. D. 1274): "There are some sins that are both sins and penalties of sins. Narrowly
considered, these are the sins that imply pain and sorrow, such as envy, sloth, and the like; more broadly considered,
they are the sins that imply either the depraving of nature or something shameful, such as those by which the sinner
is given up to a reprobate sense (Romans 1:28); and in a general view, they are those that "occur between
the first act of unfaithfulness and the final punishment of hell. These are called both sins and the penalties
of sins," for, as Gregory says, "crimes are punished with further crimes."" (Breviloquium 3:10)
Saint Augustine: "Let us not suppose, then, that human nature cannot be corrupted by sin, but rather, believing,
from the inspired Scriptures, that it is corrupted by sin, let our inquiry be how this could possibly have come
about. [...] And yet, owing to these deeds of theirs, which, although coming in the way of punishment, were none
the less sins, (he goes no to say) "Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their
own hearts." [...] Here is the punishment of iniquity, which is itself iniquity. [...] Observe how often
it happens that the very punishment which God inflicts begets other sins as its natural offspring." (On Nature
and Grace 20, 22)
We see the prophecy of King David further fulfilled, in the Jews being giving up to perfidious sin for their guilt:
"Quoniam quem tu percussisti persecuti sunt, et super dolorem vulnerum meorum addiderunt. Appone iniquitatem
super iniquitatem eorum, et non intrent in justitiam tuam." (Vulgate)
"For they persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds. Add iniquity
unto their iniquity, and let them not enter into thy justice." (Psalm 68:26-27)
"The Jews [...] are adversaries to all men. [...] To fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come
upon them to the end." (I Thessalonians 2:16)
The "wrath of God", their punishment, which has come "come upon them to the end" of time, is
that they be given up to perfidy, to treachery by which they are "adversaries to all men" and which leads
them to "fill up their sins always", to commit perfidious sin; thereby their deicide is "punished
with further crimes", and "iniquity is added unto their iniquity."
Hence, as we saw Saint Augustine say: "Judas is the image of the Jewish people"; even "Judas Iscariot,
which was the traitor." (Saint Luke 6:16)
"And while he was yet speaking, Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, came and with him a great crowd with swords
and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now his betrayer had given them a sign, saying,
"Whomsoever I kiss, that is he; lay hold of him, and lead him safely away." [...] And as soon as it
was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders, the scribes and the whole sanhedrin. And they
bound Jesus and led him away, and they betrayed [tradiderunt] him to Pilate." (St. Mark 14:43-44; 15:1)
For it is in perfidy, treachery, that the Jews have sinned in murdering Christ; it is with that perfidious act
that they are guilty: and it is to that perfidy that they are given up: wherefore, Judas "the traitor"
is the image of the Jews, the Jew who betrayed Christ even unto the death of the cross, even as they corporately
betrayed him.
7b. The same continued.
The Jews are ever deceptively treacherous, even treacherous deicides:
Pope Stephen III (A. D. 757 or 772?): "With great sorrow and mortal anxiety, We have heard that the Jews have
in a Christian land the same rights as Christians, that Christian men and women live under the same roof with these
traitors and defile their souls day and night with blasphemies." (Epistle to the Bishop of Norbonne **)
Their perfidy is not nominal, any more than was Adam's falleness. It is real; perfidy is a strong tendency within
them that tends to manifest in perfidious deeds; it is a very strong tendency, for the crucifixion was a terrible
sin, as Saint Saint Augustine wrote:
"Hast thou killed Christ? There is not than that deed any worse, because also than Christ there is nothing
better. What a dreadful thing is it to kill Christ! Yet the Jews killed Him." (On the Creed 15)
And for such a grave sin, the depth of perfidy to which they have been given up is awful; it is now part of their
nature, a basic instinct for them:
Saint Agobard: "Jews are cursed and covered with malediction as by a cloak. The curse has penetrated them
like water in their bowels and oil in their bones. They are cursed in the city and cursed in the country."
This perfidious wickedness has been described untold times by the Church, in words both graphic and plain:
Pope Gregory IX: "Ungrateful for favours and forgetful of benefits, the Jews return insult for kindness and
impious contempt for goodness." (Epistle to the Hierarchy of Germany *)
Fourth Lateran Council (A. D. 1215): "The more the Christian religion is restrained from usurious practices,
so much the more does the perfidy of the Jews grow in these matters."
Pope Innocent III: "When Jews are admitted out of pity into familiar intercourse with Christians, they repay
their hosts, according to the popular proverb, after the fashion of the rat hidden in the sack, or the snake in
the bosom, or of the burning brand in one's lap." (**).
The perfidy of the Jews was so well known in the past, that there was a "popular proverb" about it; of
course, those who "repay their hosts" as a "rat, snake or burning brand" are extremely dangerous
and harmful, even ruinous or deadly; they were infamous for it:
Father Ernardino of Feltro (15th Century Italian): "Jewish usurers bleed the poor to death and grow fat on
their substance, and I who live on alms, who feed on the bread of the poor, shall I then be mute before outraged
charity? Dogs bark to protect those who feed them, and I, who am fed by the poor, shall I see them robbed of what
belongs to them and keep silent?" (E. Flornoy, Le Bienbeureux Bernardin the Feltre ***)
Pope Saint Pius V (A. D. 1572): "Besides usury, through which Jews everywhere have sucked dry the property
of impoverished Christians, they are accomplices of thieves and robbers." (The Jewish Race **)
Pope Benedict XIV (A. D. 1758): "Furthermore, by means of their particular practice of commerce, they amass
a great store of money and then by an exorbitant rate of interest utterly destroy the wealth and inheritance of
Christians." (A Quo Primum)
Let us elaborate upon their perfidy a little, in the context of the passages we have just seen about their ruinous
usury, and their defiling of souls. We saw in the Good Friday Reproaches above, that the Jews are corporately
and individually responsible for the treacherous actions of all the Jews (and those acts of the Romans, which they
caused) surrounding the Lord's death. As they are given up to the treachery of the various Jews at the crucifixion,
we may therefore understand their condition in some detail by examining the Biblical and patristic accounts of
that treachery. Abstracting from the details of the events that day, we may say that their crime was twofold in
essence: firstly, and above all, they made Christ their victim and subjected him to ruination; and secondly, they
endeavoured to make everyone else partners in their crime and to reduce them to their own baseness. And this is
accordingly the twofold essence of their ongoing perfidy, as they ever relive their Good Friday treachery to which
they are given up. They seek to make all their victim, betrayed, mocked and ruined, like they did with Christ;
this they do through ruthless exploitation and ruination; that is what we just saw with their usury above, although
we shall see it more fully later in their genocidality and subversiveness. And they seek to reduce everyone to
their own base viciousness and involve them in their criminality, as they did with the Romans; thus they corrupt
and debase everyone through spreading their immorality and undermining decency and order; we just saw papal warning
of that too, and we shall see more. Thus at the crucifixion, thus now. Hence they are not truly contributors
who build up the common good, but rather they exploit, corrupt and tear down; they do not help in the creation
of civilization, but are destructive parasites. Whereas they attacked Christ then, they now attack Him in His
mystical body, the Church; and they attack the nations too; all the while mocking and despising, having contempt
for all goodness.
And then there are the details of the treachery of the various Jews on Good Friday, to which they are given up.
To attempt a proper, thorough analysis of the vices involved would be to attempt the sort of detailed exposition
of the various vices which is found in the voluminous Summa Theologica; and one may consult that text with profit.
We shall only note here the callous deceit, scheming, contempt for friendliness and love, of Judas as he betrayed
the Lord with a kiss for 30 pieces of silver, as well as his gross ingratitude, base callous greed, and contempt
of trust. Also there is the envy of the chief priests and their contempt for the responsibilities of office; their
complete moral abandon in the face of every privilege and opportunity; their hypocrisy and pretence; their disregard
or hatred of the good that men do and say; their deception and perversion of justice. And there is their sheer
viciousness, cruelty and destruction; their joy in their ridicule of, and attempted extinction of, what is good
and innocent. All Jews are given up to these treacherous vices and more; manifold perfidy is the universal, unchanging,
Jewish character.
And as they then slandered with false charges the innocent who spoke against their perfidy, namely Christ, even
so it is now: they slander those who recognize or oppose their perfidy, so as to try to obscure honest and dutiful
criticism with their slanderous lying cries of "hatred"; they would deceptively hide their treacherous
character and try to make themselves appear innocent and good. The Lord called it "hypocrisy" when he
characterized the deicidal Jews by means of the Pharisees whose doctrines they now revere as the Talmud:
"Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly
appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness. So you also outwardly
indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. [...] You are the sons of them
that killed the prophets. [...] That upon you will come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth.
[...] Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets [...] behold your house shall be left to you desolate."
(Saint Matthew 23)
They are the betrayers, the deceivers, schemers, destroyers, corrupters, even "the perfidious Jews";
their dealings are cursed with their perfidy which taints all they do:
"Thou shalt be cursed in the city, and shalt be cursed in the field. Cursed shalt thou be in thy basket and
thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out."
(Deuteronomy 28:16-9)
As the Jews have inherited so many and so grave vices, they are given up to be thoroughly degenerate and foul for
their deicidal sin:
Saint John Chrysostom: "How dare Christians have the slightest doings with Jews, those most miserable of all
men. They are lustful, rapacious, greedy, perfidious bandits, pests of the universe. Indeed, an entire day would
not suffice to tell of all their rapine, their avarice, their deception of the poor, their thievery, and their
huckstering. Are they not inveterate murderers, destroyers, men possessed by the devil? Jews are impure and impious,
and their synagogue is a house of prostitution, a lair of beasts, a place of shame and ridicule, the domicile of
the devil, as is also the soul of the Jew. As a matter of fact, Jews worship the devil: their rites are criminal
and unchaste; their religion a disease; their synagogue an assembly of crooks, a den of thieves, a cavern of devils,
an abyss of perdition! Why are the Jews degenerate? Because of their hateful assassination of Christ. This supreme
crime lies at the root of their degradation and woes. The rejection and the dispersion of the Jews was the work
of God and because of His absolute abandonment of the Jews. Thus, the Jew will live under the yoke of slavery
without end. God hates the Jews, and on Judgement Day He will say to those who sympathise with them: "Depart
from me, for you have had doings with My murderers!" Flee, then, from their assemblies, fly from their houses,
and, far from venerating the synagogue, hold it in hatred and aversion." (Six Homilies Against the Jews *)
Saint John wrote there that their deicide "lies at the root" of their multifarious degeneracy which he
had just described: to such vice they are given up. We see that other teachers of the Faith stated the same thing:
Pope Innocent IV (A. D. 1254): "The Jews, from whose hearts Our Saviour did not remove the veil because of
their enormous crimes but caused them justly to continue in their blindness, commit acts of shame which engender
astonishment in those who hear, and terror in those who discover it." (The Wicked Perfidy of the Jews **)
Saint Felix of Toledo: "It is known that the Jewish people are polluted with wickedness, blasphemy, and the
shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ so that their wickedness has no limit." ("On the Condemnation
of the Jews," Council XVII of Toledo, Spain, Canon 8 **).
Saint Gregory of Nyssa (A. D. 394): "Jews are slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, adversaries
of God, haters of God, men who show contempt for the law, foes of grace, advocates of the devil, brood of vipers,
slanderers, scoffers, men whose minds are in darkness, leaven of the Pharisees, assemblies of demons, sinners,
wicked men, stoners and haters of righteousness." (Oration on the Resurrection of Christ)
Saint Benedict Center wrote of the fact in the 1950s, as follows:
"What is wrong with the Jews? This question has its answer in an event that happened long ago, when a frenzied
Jerusalem mob, standing in the courtyard of the city's Roman governor, hurled at the heavens its defiant shout,
"His blood be upon us and upon our children." [...] The Jews' baseness and sensuality and perpetual
intrigue, their insatiable ambition, their open contempt for all standards of decency and order - all these malignities,
these natural reasons for their being hated, spring from and are sustained by the central and supernatural fact
that they are cursed." (The Point, April 1956)
They are perfidious forever:
Saint John Chrysostom: "They have slain Christ and the prophets, they insult God, they are the common enemies
of the world, they banish us, when coming for their salvation. What wonder if they have done such things also
to you, when they have done them even in Judaea? "Forbidding us to speak to the gentiles, that they might
be saved." It is a mark of envy therefore to hinder the salvation of all. "To fill up their sins always.
But the wrath is come upon them to the end [in finem]." (I Thessalonians 2:15) What is "to the end"?
These things are no longer like the former. There is no return back, no limit. But the wrath is nigh at hand."
(On Thessalonians, Homily III)
7c. Their cursed perfidy and foulness has brought about their subjugation.
So, the Jews are cursed to be perfidious and foul, and this inevitably manifests in treacherous and base acts,
whereby "they are adversaries to all men", hostile to the wellbeing and virtue of all, whom they seek
to victimize and corrupt. As their perfidy inevitably affects their dealings with the nations, it should rationally
inform the dealings that the nations have with them; and that is the case as one looks through history: the Jews
have acted perfidiously toward the nations, and the nations have acted rationally and justly, dutifully in order
to defend themselves from cursed Jewish perfidy. Hence it is that their cursed perfidy effects their curse of
being subjugated outcasts through the instrumentality of the nations; their perfidy at the crucifixion merited
their perpetual subjugation, and their cursed ongoing perfidy effects their ongoing subjugation. God uses the
nations to punish the Jews, through both their duty and their interest.
Thus the prophesy of King David is further fulfilled:
"Et dederunt in escam meam fel, et in siti mea potaverunt me aceto. Fiat mensa eorum coram ipsis in laqueum,
et in retributiones, et in scandalum. Obscurentur oculi eorum, ne videant; et dorsum eorum semper incurva."
(Vulgate)
"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table be made
unto them a snare, and a recompense, and a stumbling block: let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
and bow down their back alway." (Psalm 68:21-23)
Their "table", their cursed perfidious everyday dealings are "a snare", even a means of their
entrapment, their captivity, subjugation: and thus it is "a recompense unto them", subjugative punishment
for their guilt.
Saint Hippolytus: "Listen with understanding, O Jew, to what the Christ says: "They gave me gall for
my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." And these things he did indeed endure from you.
Hear the Holy Ghost tell you also what return He made to you for that little portion of vinegar. For the prophet
says, as in the person of God, "Let their table become a snare and retribution." Of what retribution
does He speak? Manifestly, of the misery which has now got hold of thee. [...] Bend thou thy back for servitude
always." (Against the Jews 5-6)
As we have seen, the deicidal Jews also have their curse in common with fratricidal Cain: hence, a consideration
of him provides illustration as to the Jewish condition. Cain was subjected for his crime in a very fundamental
way, in being a known cursed outcast, guilty, perfidious, whose treachery all were to beware of, who was to be
feared and detested - who would never be considered a normal citizen with normal rights and privileges, but whose
perfidy was ever to be kept in check by vigilant and prudent social policy. "And the Lord set a mark upon
Cain." (Genesis 4:15) If he would kill his own innocent brother, who would he not betray? Cain must be governed,
subjugated; he must be subjected to restraints on his perfidy. Similarly, the perfidy and foulness of the Jews
cause the nations to vigilantly subject them; it is thereby just and prudent social policy, as well as just punishment
for their deicidal guilt. Cain was able to avoid full actualised subjection, regulation, as he entered the expanse
of the then unpopulated earth; there was no one for him to betray anyway. Adam had more important things to do,
such as the raising of Seth: as long as Cain was away from them where he could do no harm, there was more pressing
business; his subjection need not go further than his expulsion. However, the earth is now populated: the perfidious
Jew must be in actuality, as well as in merit, subjugated.
It may be observed that the Jews' perfidy has indeed effected their subjugation through history, as the nations
sought to mitigate its dire effect. Thereby their perfidious blasphemy of Christ has been suppressed:
Pope Gregory IX: "We order all our brother bishops absolutely to suppress the blasphemy of Jews in your dioceses,
churches, and communities, so that they do not dare raise their necks, bent under eternal slavery, to revile the
Redeemer." (**)
Fourth Lateran Council (A. D. 1215): "They shall not appear in public at all on the days of lamentation and
on passion Sunday; because some of them on such days, as we have heard, do not blush to parade in very ornate dress
and are not afraid to mock Christians who are presenting a memorial of the most sacred passion and are displaying
signs of grief. What we most strictly forbid however, is that they dare in any way to break out in derision of
the Redeemer."
And the people have been protected from Jewish perfidy:
Fourth Lateran Council: "We therefore renew in this canon, on account of the boldness of the offenders, what
the Council of Toledo providently decreed in this matter: we forbid Jews to be appointed to public offices, since
under cover of them they are very hostile to Christians."
Pope Clement VIII: "All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have
brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very
poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since
they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their
deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live." (***)
Saint Thomas Aquinas: "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury;
it were best that they were compelled to work so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but
becoming avaricious." (On the Governance of the Jews)
Fourth Lateran Council: "The more the Christian religion is restrained from usurious practices, so much the
more does the perfidy of the Jews grow in these matters, so that within a short time they are exhausting the resources
of the Christians. Wishing therefore to see that Christians are not savagely oppressed by Jews in this matter,
we ordain by this synodal decree that if Jews in the future, on any pretext, extort oppressive and excessive interest
from Christians, then they are to be removed from contact with Christians until they have made adequate satisfaction
for the immoderate burden. Christians too, if need be, shall be compelled by ecclesiastical censure, without the
possibility of an appeal, to abstain from commerce with them. We enjoin upon princes, not to be hostile to Christians
on this account, but rather to be zealous in restraining Jews from so great oppression."
7d. It has also brought about their subjugative segregation and expulsion.
We see there that their subjugative segregation is also effected through their perfidy: "they are to be removed
from contact with Christians". And so it is that the following aspect of the Cainite curse is fulfilled:
"And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy
hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond
shalt thou be on the earth." (Genesis 4:11-12)
As when the Jews "till the ground", they do not labour and interact socially in a normal honest manner,
but are perfidious and foul usurers and exploiters, betrayers, destroyers - accordingly the ground does not "yield
her strength" to them in the normal yielding manner in which a society cooperates with the friendly, honest
workman. Rather, through their perfidious exploits, they agitate their neighbour and so become "a fugitive
and a vagabond upon the earth", being segregated and expelled.
It has effected their segregation through history:
Pope Stephen III: "With great sorrow and mortal anxiety, We have heard that the Jews have in a Christian land
the same rights as Christians, that Christian men and women live under the same roof with these traitors and defile
their souls day and night with blasphemies." (Epistle to the Bishop of Norbonne **)
Pope Alexander III (A. D. 1181): "Our ways of life and those of the Jews are utterly different, and Jews will
easily pervert the souls of simple folk to their superstition and unbelief if such folk are living in continual
and intimate intercourse with them." ("Ad Haec," a Decretal, cited by Benedict XIV **).
Hence also the permanent public warning to avoid Jews, inscribed over the gate to the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents
in Paris: "Beware of a Jew, a madman, and a leper." In many regions, all Jews were obliged to wear distinctive
dress or a yellow patch on their clothing, so that all would recognize them and keep clear of their perfidy; this
practice was extended to all Christian lands by Pope Innocent IV at the Fourth Lateran Council.
"For nineteen centuries, it has been the Catholic Church's constant and deliberate policy to keep leashed,
muzzled, and set apart, that people which she has universally taught is a cursed race - cursed for its crucifixion
of Jesus Christ. Throughout the Christian ages, the Popes, the Saints, and all Catholics in civil authorities,
have taken upon themselves, as one of the necessary burdens of Catholic allegiance, the responsibility of holding
back the Jew - of keeping him well distinguished from the rest of the community, with no opportunity to carry out
the treacheries he was planning against the Church of Christ." (The Point, February 1955)
And their perfidy and foulness have effected their expulsion through history, "a fugitive and a vagabond upon
the earth". The Apostle indicated that it is correct to expel the perfidious Jews, while discussing the Judaizers
at Galatia, when he employed the image of Ishmael, the son of the servant, for the Jew, and that of Isaac, the
freeman, for the Christian, when Hagar was sent forth with her son (Genesis 21:10):
"But as he then that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is
now. Nevertheless what says the scripture? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman." So then brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman
but of the free." (Galatians 4:29-31)
The Church has always understood and enacted that the Jew is to be expelled, so that the nations may be justly
protected from his treachery, either as a preventative measure or when his perfidy is no longer bearable:
Pope Leo VII (A. D. 939): "Let the Gospel be preached unto them and, if they remain obstinate, let them be
expelled." (*)
Pope Innocent IV: "We who long with all our hearts for the salvation of souls, grant you full authority by
these present letters to banish the Jews, either in your own person or through the agency of others, especially
since, as we have been informed, they do not abide by the regulations drawn up for them by this Holy See."
(To the King of France; The Point, February 1955)
Father Feeney: "By 1550, there were no Jews lawfully resident in England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands,
the Scandinavian countries or Russia." (The Point, April 1956)
Pope Saint Pius V: "The Jewish people fell from the heights because of their faithlessness and condemned their
Redeemer to a shameful death. Their godlessness has assumed such forms that, for the salvation of our own people,
it becomes necessary to prevent their disease. Besides usury, through which Jews everywhere have sucked dry the
property of impoverished Christians, they are accomplices of thieves and robbers; and the most damaging aspect
of the matter is that they allure the unsuspecting through magical incantations, superstition, and witchcraft to
the Synagogue of Satan and boast of being able to predict the future. We have carefully investigated how this
revolting sect abuses the name of Christ and how harmful they are to those whose life is threatened by their deceit.
On account of these and other serious matters, and because of the gravity of their crimes which increase day to
day more and more, We order that, within 90 days, all Jews in our entire earthly realm of justice ? in all towns,
districts, and places ? must depart these regions." (The Jewish Race **)
The Jews were acting to the great detriment of the Christians "everywhere", he says: "everywhere",
like some kind of huge fat vampire or monstrous leach they "sucked dry" the poor Christians, no less
- "those whose life is threatened by their deceit." "Jews everywhere" have done this, he wrote:
for perfidy is a character trait of the Jews as a whole, not just of this or that individual Jew but of all of
them; they are given up to it as a curse. Jewish "deceit" and treachery were no longer bearable.
Maria Theresa, Catholic Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (A. D. 1789): "Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what
name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within
the state than this race, which impoverishes the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all
deeds which an honourable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as
possible." (***)
Expulsion appeared as the correct policy regarding the Jews repeatedly through the centuries. I quote again from
The Point, though I have added formatting for clarity:
"Banishment of the Jews is a remedy which Catholic rulers have always hesitated to use. Yet, at some time,
and often more than once, every Catholic state in Europe has been forced to ask all Jews within its borders to
leave. Here are a few examples:
- The Jews were expelled from Spain by order of the Spanish Bishops, in the seventh century, and they were again
expelled by the Spanish rulers, Ferdinand and Isabella, in 1492.
- From France they were expelled in 1182, again in 1306, again in 1394 and again, from southern France in 1682.
- In accordance with a decree of Pope Leo VII, the Jews were exiled from Germany in the tenth century; they were
again expelled in the eleventh century, and once again in the year 1349.
- They were made to leave Hungary twice: in 1360 and again in 1582.
- From England, they were expelled in the year 1290.
- From Belgium, in 1370.
- From Austria, in 1420 and again in 1570.
- From Lithuania, in 1495.
- From Portugal, in 1498.
- From Prussia, in 1510.
- From the kingdom of Naples, in 1540.
- From Bavaria, in 1551.
- From the Genoese Republic, in 1567.
- And from the Papal States, the Pope's personal domains, the Jews were expelled in 1569 and, once again, in 1593."
(The Point, February 1955)
That list is rather short, so we shall add another more extensive though far from complete; the Jews were expelled
in the following years from the following areas, many of which were Catholic:
The Jew is forever cursed with the curse of Cain to be an outcast; as Saint John Chrysostom once said about the
permanence of the Church: "If you do not believe the saying, believe the fact." There we see the concordance
of the Faith with reality. Their cursed perfidy has been too much everywhere.
And their expulsion has been the work of Saints honoured by the Church for their holy labours. As the same issue
of The Point informs: Saint Thomas of Hereford (A. D. 1282) brought about their expulsion from England; Saint Henry
II, (A. D. 1014) King of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor expelled them from his realm; and Saint Louis IX, (A. D.
1270) King of France from his; as far back as the Fifth Century, Saint Cyril of Alexandria (A. D. 440), Doctor,
had them removed from his city upon becoming bishop. And as we have seen, Pope Saint Pius V expelled them from
the papal realms. Indeed, it is part of our imitation of Christ:
"And the Jews passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold
oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting. And when he had made a whip of small cords, he drove
them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the
tables. And he said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence, and make not my Fathers house a house
of business." (Saint John 2:13-6)
They were only let back into England in A. D. 1655, three and a half centuries after their expulsion, after the
folly of the Protestant revolt they perfidiously helped to start:
"The city of London was aroused in 1271 to prohibit Jews from acquiring any more property there. [...] The
year 1275 opened with the Jews being expelled from Marlborough, Gloucester, Worchester and Cambridge. [...] Archbishop
Peckham of London, a city growing acutely uncomfortable for the Jews, gave orders in 1283 that all the synagogues
in his diocese must be closed. [...] In November of 1286, Pope Honorius IV wrote to the English Archbishops of
Canterbury and York, calling the Talmud "that damnable book" and urging them "vehemently to see
that it be not read by anyone, since all evils flow from it." A few months later, in May of 1287, King Edward
I had the Jews of England thrown into prison. And finally, on November 1, 1290, Edward ordered all Jews to be
deported from the country - to which they were not allowed to return till the time of the Protestant Cromwell."
(The Point, February, 1957)
It was also only due to Protestant influence that they were also admitted to Ireland, from which they were also
banned in A. D. 1290. I propose that traditional British Catholics keep a novena of prayer of celebration and
thanksgiving during the week leading up to November 1st, in joyful commemoration of the expulsion of the Jews from
England for centuries which started on that date; we can then also beg God that they might be expelled again.
Catholics from other lands may do this on the date the Jews were expelled from their lands. Perhaps we could even
construct a novena calendar for the year, keeping intercessory observances of all the expulsions of the Jews: that
way, we can be sure to regularly plead with God for such a necessary blessing. As it is revealed in the Bible
that the mass of the Jews will not truly convert until the end times, it is much more practical, and theologically
correct, to pray for their expulsion than for their conversion.
The Jews remained expelled from some apostate lands later than from England: "Jews were banned from Sweden
until 1782, were not allowed in Denmark before the 1600's, and were not allowed to enter Norway until 1815."
(Sister Catherine, M. I. C. M., Our Glorious Popes, Loreto Press, A. D. 2000) As their perfidy is manifest, it
can be observed (even if it is not usually noted) by non-Catholics; hence it is that those who are labelled "right
wing" or now often slandered by the deceiving Zionist Jews as "anti-semites", are often able to
formulate basically correct policies regarding them, even if they are not able to account for Jewish perfidy properly
such as the generic perfidy of converts thereto from other races.
Only the Jew's conversion to the Faith can truly effect his reform from his cursed perfidy. And even then - like
how concupiscence and weakness remain in the regenerate even after baptism - perfidy remains a tendency within
the Jew which he must strive to overcome through grace. The Jewish "converts" I have known have all
been observably perfidious; ask them about the Talmud they used to read, and you will see where their loyalties
lie. And what with completely pretended conversions as well, which is one of many well-known Jewish deceptions,
one should be scrupulously careful in ever trusting even an apparently "Catholic" Jew; whilst one should
never trust a non-Catholic Jew. This perfidious Jewish deception has always been well-known by the Church; hence,
the seventh Ecumenical Council decreed the following for the whole Church, while also allowing for the sincere
to be converted:
Council Nice II (A. D. 787): "Since certain, erring in the superstitions of the Hebrews, have thought to mock
at Christ our God, and feigning to be converted to the religion of Christ do deny him, and in private and secretly
keep the Sabbath and observe other Jewish customs, we decree that such persons be not received to communion, nor
to prayers, nor into the Church; but let them be openly Hebrew according to their religion, and let them not bring
their children to baptism, nor purchase or possess a slave."
"Marranos", ie. "swine", as false Jewish "converts" are known, have often been a
terrible problem for the Church; indeed that is why the Holy Inquisition had to be founded in Spain; it is also
why the Jesuit order providently decreed that Jewish lineage was to be considered an impediment to joining its
ranks:
"In a short time, as the young Jesuit organization became a power for Catholic reform and propaganda, Jews
were attracted to it, as they are always attracted to centers of influence, in such numbers that it was found difficult
to keep out those who wished to destroy the order and the Church under pretext of working for them. Thus a nephew
of the great and Catholic Jew Polanco followed him into the society, and caused such difficulties and dissensions
that for years he nearly drove his superiors to despair." (Philip II, William Thomas Walsh ****)
It is typical Jewish perfidy to betray even with their deceptive kiss while pretending to be trusted friends, as
they are given up to the perfidy of Judas (Saint Matthew 26:49-50). I propose that in view of their cursed perfidy,
it is only prudent, even urgent, that Jews not be allowed to occupy any position of influence within the Church,
or in society: they should be excluded from the episcopacy, the priesthood, religious orders, the diaconate, Church
media and diplomacy, policy formulation, the running of catechism classes, altar serving and even parish choirs.
It is justice and charity that Catholics have a Church that is not subverted or weakened by Jewish perfidy and
degeneracy. Jews can be saints, but many more will not be (the Church is yet to canonize a Jewish convert since
her early days); and the Church must exercise great prudence where the glory of God and the salvation of souls
are concerned. She must not allow herself to swayed by the weakness of a false sentimentality, or a misguided
and sinful "humanitarianism".
8. The constant struggle between the Church and the Jew.
So we have established: that the Jews are cursed with the guilt of deicide, and that they merit to be subjugated,
regulated, segregated, excluded and expelled; that the Church and the nations have a duty to enact that subjugation;
and that the Jews are also cursed with a perfidy which effects their subjugation, whereby the Church and the nations
have an additional interest and duty to enact proper policy toward them. Subjugation of the Jews is the theologically,
morally and politically correct, rational social policy; that is the Church's perennial "social teaching".
She used her influence to subject the Jews as they deserve, and the nations were protected from their perfidy,
although we do not say that she could not do better. She has the duty to inform and guide the nations about the
Jews; and the nations have a duty and need to obey her just commands. God has established her as Mistress of the
nations.
But today, Cain is out of control, without proper subjugation and segregation: rational social policy is not being
enacted with regard to the Jews, and they are roaming free to betray and destroy. That is because the insight
necessary for such policy is no longer being communicated, accepted and acted upon: the Church has had her position
in society weakened by rebellious apostasy, and so many of the once loyal Catholic nations will not now listen
to their watchful Mother. And her placeholders no longer seem to know Catholic teaching anyway; indeed, it seems
likely that Jews have been allowed to infiltrate even the Church. And so this knowledge - that the Jews are cursed
with the curse of Cain for their perfidious murder of Christ - is passing from common understanding. Without the
clear, sure, revealed teaching of Holy Church to guide them, the governments of the nations are not aware of the
traitor in their midst, and they are not acting toward him as they ought to; such is the fruit of rebellion.
8a. The jew is not always completely subjugated.
How are we to understand this theologically? Although the Jew merited, and is so cursed, to be forever subjugated,
that is not to say that his subjugation will be completely enacted at all times. The Church and the nations have
a duty and an interest to effect his complete subjugation, as we have seen; but the Jew resists. And when we are
neglectful, his perfidy may be temporarily liberated: this is the proper sort of mea culpa. Thus, there is a struggle
between the dutiful Church and the perfidious Jew. We may see a type of this in the blessings of Jacob and Esau;
when they were yet unborn, their future was revealed:
"And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to
enquire of the Lord. And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
separated from thy womb; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve
the younger." (Genesis 25:22-23)
Esau bargained away to Jacob the birth-right which he had as eldest son (Genesis 25:29-34); and Jacob was blessed
by his father Isaac, such as that Esau would serve him:
"Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's son
bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee." (Genesis 27:29)
Jacob, the younger is a figure of the Christians, who obtained their inheritance at the deicidal fall of the Jews,
the former heirs, who are typified by the elder Esau; the prophecy has both a literal and a typical fulfilment:
Saint Augustine: "That saying, "The elder shall serve the younger", is understood by our writers,
almost without exception, to mean that the elder people, the Jews, shall serve the younger people, the Christians.
And truly, although this might seem to be fulfilled in the Idumean nation, which was born of the elder (who had
two names, being called both Esau and Edom, whence the name Idumeans), because it was afterwards to be overcome
by the people which sprang from the younger, that is, by the Israelites, and was to become subject to them; yet
it is more suitable to believe that, when it was said, "The one people shall overcome the other people, and
the elder shall serve the younger," that prophecy meant some greater thing; and what is that except what is
evidently fulfilled in the Jews and in the Christians? [...] He [Christ] is the Lord of His brethren, because
His people rules over the Jews." (The City of God, XVI:35, 37)
The Jews are to be subject to the Christians and the nations, as we have seen; but it is indicated in Esau's blessing
that he may temporarily break loose:
"And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.
And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. [...] And by the sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." (Genesis 27:38, 40)
The Jew has sometimes during the centuries managed to temporary "break his yoke". For instance, when
the treacherous Jews in Spain were particularly upset by Christian kings who had inhibited their trading in and
possession of Christian slaves, and who had tried to convert them:
"The Jews of Africa, who at various times had emigrated thither from Spain, and their unlucky co?religionists
of the Peninsula, made common cause with the Mahometan conqueror, Tarik, who brought over from Africa into Andalusia
an army eager for the fray. After the battle of Xeres (July, 711 A. D.), and the death of Frederic, the last of
the Visigothic kings, the victorious Arabs pushed onward, and were everywhere supported by the Jews. In every
city that they conquered, the Moslem generals were able to leave but a small garrison of their own troops, as they
had need of every man for the subjection of the country; they therefore confided them to the safekeeping of the
Jews. In this manner the Jews, who but lately had been serfs, now became the masters of the towns of Cordova,
Granada, Malaga, and many others." (History of the Jews, Professor Graetz, Vol. III, p. 109 ****).
Many died because of this Jewish perfidy; our Spanish brothers and sisters eventually drove out the barbarous infidel
some centuries later and expelled the Jew; but such things can periodically happen. And when they do, things bode
very badly for the Christian and gentile peoples.
8b. The necessary struggle between the Church and the Jew.
The Church must constantly struggle to subjugate the Jew; such mastery is her destiny which she must ever strive
to fulfil: "And the children struggled together within her." (Genesis 25:22)
Saint Irenaeus: "If anyone will look again into Jacob's actions, he shall find them not destitute of meaning,
but full of import with regard to the dispensations. Thus, in the first place, at his birth, since he laid hold
on his brother's heel, he was called "Jacob", that is, "the supplanter" - one who holds, but
is not held; binding the feet, but not being bound; striving and conquering; grasping in his hand his adversaries
heel, that is, victory. For to this end was the Lord born, the type of whose birth he set forth beforehand, of
whom also John says in the Apocalypse: "he went forth conquering that he should conquer."" (Against
the Heresies IV:21)
The Jew is the Church's perpetual enemy. Padre Pio (A. D. 1968), the first priest ever to bear the miraculous
stigmata of Christ's wounds, put it: "The Jews are enemies of God and foes of our Holy Religion." (*)
Indeed, he is a would-be deadly enemy. We have seen that they were given up to the treacherous disposition that
they chose at the crucifixion: that was a murderous perfidy, for they betrayed Christ even unto death; to such
murderous perfidy, the Jew is given up. The inclination to murder is fundamental to the Jewish condition: they
perfidiously murdered Christ and the prophets; they are all guilty of deicide; they have the curse of the murderer
Cain; they are given up to their murderous perfidy; they are typified by Judas. And they are typified by Esau
who resolved to kill his brother:
"And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart,
The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will slay my brother Jacob." (Genesis 27:41)
According to type, the envious Jew particularly hates the Church and seeks to destroy her, but they are also "adversaries
to all men. [...] To fill up their sins always." (I Thessalonians 2:16)
Saint Justin Martyr (A. D. 165): "Jacob was hated for all time by his brother; and we now, and Our Lord Himself,
are hated by you and all men." (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew: 134)
Saint Irenaeus: "In the next place, Jacob received the rights of the first-born, when his brother looked on
them with contempt; even as also the younger nation received Him, Christ, the first-begotten, when the elder nation
rejected Him, saying, "We have no king but Caesar." But in Christ is every blessing, and therefore the
latter people has snatched away the blessings of the former from the Father, just as jacob took away the blessing
of Esau. For which cause his brother suffered the plots and persecutions of a brother, just as the Church suffers
this self-same thing from the Jews." (Against the Heresies IV:21)
Saint Hippolytus: "Isaac conveys a figure of God the Father; Rebecca of the Holy Spirit; Esau of the first
people and the devil; Jacob of the Church, or of Christ. [...] Because iniquity is opposed to righteousness, Esau
is excited to strife, and meditates death deceitfully, saying in his heart, "Let the days of mourning for
my father come on, and I will slay my brother Jacob." The devil, who previously exhibited the fratricidal
Jews by anticipation in Cain, makes the most manifest disclosure of them now in Esau, showing also the time of
the murder." (Fragment from Commentary on Genesis; preserved in Saint Jerome's Letter 36, to Pope Damasus.)
Saint Hilary of Poitiers (A. D. 368): "The Jews are always seething to slaughter the Christian people."
(Tractus Mysteriorum; The Point, September 1955)
Let us consider the above words carefully.
Saint Augustine: "And this murderer is cursed by the Church; that is, the Church admits and avows the curse
pronounced by the Apostle: "Whoever are of the works of the law are under the curse of the law.""
(Reply to Faustinus the Manichaean 12:11)
Saint John Chrysostom: "Are they not inveterate murderers, destroyers, men possessed by the devil?" (Six
Homilies Against the Jews)
Saint Athanasius: "But through vice a man goes out from the presence of the Lord; as Cain when he had slain
his brother, went out, as far as his will was concerned, from before the face of God. But of the devil the scripture
beareth witness, that the devil went out from before God, and smote Job with sore boils. For this is the characteristic
of those who go out from before God - to smite and to injure the men of God. And this is the characteristic of
those who fall away from the faith - to injure and persecute the faithful. [...] And if they had examined with
their understanding the things which were written, they would not have carefully fulfilled the prophesies which
were against themselves, so as for their city to be now desolate, grace being taken from them, and they themselves
without the law, being called no longer children but strangers. [...] But those Jews who had conspired against
the Lord died, having rejoiced a very little in these temporal things, and having fallen away from those which
are eternal. [...] It is not right to fear if the gang which contended with Christ, should conspire against godliness."
(Letter X, Easter 338)
The Fathers were quite casual in characterizing the Jew generically as being murderous. Their murderous perfidy
is not nominal, but a very strong tendency within them, which tends to manifest in murderous deeds; indeed, they
are perpetually genocidal. Their book, the Talmud, openly teaches genocide of all the nations, as has previously
been well known, and is again becoming known thanks to the efforts of men like "Professor Israel Shahak"
of "Jerusalem University" and Michael Hoffman. At least four popes to my knowledge have condemned its
genocidal teachings; to wit, Popes Paul IV, Clement VIII, Alexander VIII and Julius III. And for good reason;
the Jews are credited with effecting through their murderous, treacherous schemes: the "French Revolution"
against the Church; world wars One and Two; and the "Russian Revolution"; amongst others, with over 100
million dead in a century. Only the Crusade of ordinary Catholics and the return from Morocco of the Defender
of the Faith, the "fascist" Great General Francisco Franco saved Spain from a similar fate in the Spanish-Jewish
War, though 11 bishops and 16750 priests were murdered in first seven months of fighting as reported by the Spanish
hierarchy.
"From the moment the Spanish Civil War began in July, 1936, it was evident that world Jewry was determined
that the Communist forces should triumph. Every resource of Jewish wealth and propaganda was mobilized for a total
assault. From every nation, Jews flocked to Spain to organize and direct operations." (The Point, November
1957)
Jewish control of international Communism is well documented, and their control of freemasonry is also well-known,
as is their manipulation of Western governments over the last couple of centuries. They treacherously work against
all to try to bring about their downfall and ruin; they deliberately subvert societies, spread the degeneracy to
which they are given up, and exploit the vulnerable. They seek to mockingly drag the nations to the cross, ever
reliving the murderous perfidy of Good Friday, to which they are given up.
But the essentially treacherous cruel Jewish character often does not manifest directly as murderous; often, as
we have already seen, it appears as ruthless and callous exploitation of the innocent, whether it be by usury or
otherwise. We shall not do more than merely mention the current debt-ridden plight of the Third World and of First
World governments, all of whom are indebted to the international financiers (while we do not say that only Jews
are responsible for this, we think it unlikely that they are without a large share therein). An essentially usurious
quasi-civilization is established globally. And we see the looming construction of the New World Order effected
through One World Government and Jewish control of the media, control and occupation of governments, and with the
help of international finance and multinational companies. Reliving Good Friday, they attempt to again become
the "rulers of the people", and to use the rulers and the civil servants of the nations in their treacherous
plots, like they used Herod, Pilate and the Roman soldiers.
According to their Talmud, "the goyim" are soulless cattle created to serve the Jews, and whom he has
an historical destiny to conquer and subject in world domination; and this he seeks to make them, stripping them
of their religion, their cultural decency, their race and nationhood, their political sovereignty and economic
independence: the helpless, pliable herd of the Jew World Order. It has always been understood that the Jews are
guilty murderers who are forever persecuting the innocent with their perfidy; but with their control of the media
and endless cries of "anti-semitism", and their ridiculous stories of a blasphemously named "holocaust",
they have falsified reality to the extent that many dupes now think that the Christians are the guilty murderers
who have always persecuted the Jews. Christians took necessary and dutiful action against a scheming traitor,
an ever-perfidious foe. Again, Jewish deceit and slander is a weapon they constantly employ in their attack on
the Church and the nations.
Thus we see the urgency of the perpetual struggle of the Church and the nations against the Jews: if a Biblical
subjugation of the Jews is not effected, then a Talmudic anti-Christian "New World Order" will be. If
the Jew is not subjugated, then the nations will be enslaved. Either the Church will provide the necessary conditions
for the spiritual and cultural development of the nations, or the Jew will underdevelop them. What they were stopped
from doing to Christians by the popes and Catholic rulers of the Middle Ages, they are now free to do.
The solution to these problems is simple, in essence as we have seen: the people must again learn to fear Cain,
and he must be justly subjugated, segregated and expelled in accordance with his cursed perfidy. In other words,
we all need to be realistic as to who the Jews are, and then we can enact rational social policy in their regard:
and we can eradicate their influence from the Church and from our civilization. The area they have blasphemously
ill-named "Israel" may perhaps be seen as a convenient large ghetto where they may be permanently gathered,
demilitarized and subjugated by international law, to protect the nations, being a form of segregation and expulsion;
it can be correctly renamed "Judas", "Cain", "Ishmael", "Esau" or even
"Ham". Or perhaps it is more appropriate to move them elsewhere. The false marranos must go too: their
being allowed to remain after previous expulsions has been to the great detriment of Catholic nations; this policy
must be enacted or the perfidy will never stop. Never again will an unconverted Jew walk the land of England or
any other land outside of the single ghetto; never will there be a synagogue; Jewish perfidy will be finished.
Further, all usurious debt must be cancelled and the Third World must be relieved. The Jews are to be excluded
from any financial doings with the world. "American" governmental aid to the Occupational Government
of Palestine ($77 billion by A. D. 2000) must cease, and the Palestinians must be protected. Of course, ultimately
we work and pray for a return of the nations to the Faith and obedience of the Church, without which there is no
salvation for any individual, nor health for a nation; indeed the Church's policy toward other infidels often resembled
that toward the Jews, though the reason was not entirely the same. And we hope and pray that many Jews will reach
for blessing by conversion to Christ. In the meantime, we may look to cooperate with other gentiles seeking to
lessen and neutralize Jewish influence. Outside the Church, there is no salvation.