St Benedicts Center is anti-Semitic-——very controversial.
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What are they about?
I don’t know anything about that group.
Brother André Marie said:
[T]his accusation is preposterous and is easily met by the multiple Jews who have interacted with us and who simply don’t believe it. As one Jewish newspaper reporter told me, after covering the story for a while, “I knew you weren’t an anti-Semite when I first met you.” A Jew who is currently undergoing instruction to become a Catholic has told me how incredibly charitable he finds us here. He knows that the message is conversion, and that message is for everybody, including Jews.
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/catholics-turned-away-from-amazon-smile
Even the SPLC’s “damning” investigation of the Center has, at most, a half-dozen out-of-context “quotes” from clergy and lay persons at one point associated with the Center.
The major “hate crimes” are:
- one of more associated persons at some point questioning the veracity of the entirety of the Holocaust story;
- support of traditional (pre-Vatican II) Catholic teachings;
- exposing some of the virulently anti-Christian and xenophobic teachings in the Talmud (of which there are plenty); and
- that some people associated with the Church like and own firearms.