[Antoninus]

An article from the Southern Poverly Law Center? It should be pointed out that these people are communists. They despise the Catholic Church, so it's not surprising to me that they'd lash out at traditional Catholics in this way, attempting to brand them all as "anti-Semites."

Granted, some of the wackier "trads" definitely manifest some definite anti-Semitic characteristics, but to try to paint the entire movement as anti-Semitic is simply slanderous. The anti-Semites are generally fringies.

[livius]

This article is inflammatory distortion. There have always been wackos in any religion, but in the Church they usually end up getting excommunicated or silenced (ala Fr. Coughlin, Fr. Feeney, etc.).

"Traditionalists" is a pretty broad category, and the author is making some real leaps in assigning guilt by association. Furthermore, some of the groups he is talking about are not even part of the Catholic Church, having gone their own way long ago.

His purpose is clearly to defame orthodox ("traditionalist") Catholics in general and also to imply that the pro-life movement is a hotbed of anti-Semitism and racism. Nothing could be further from the truth, but truth matters little to leftists like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

[NYer]

Know your enemies ;-)