The Dirty Dozen - Catholic Hate Groups in America

[onager]

Found this while poking around the Southern Poverty Law Center website. The article was published in 2006, but a quick Google shows that all 12 organizations apparently still have working websites.

The Dirty Dozen

Traditionalist Catholic groups are scattered around America and the world. But only a handful preach anti-Semitic hatred.

On edit - mods requested I edit this to avoid copyright violation.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/winter/the-dirty-dozen?page=0,0

[virgogal]

1. Re #9---There is no Still River in MA.

[onager]

2. ???

Noted for its spectacular views of Mount Wachusett, Still River is home to Saint Benedict Abbey, St. Benedict Center, Willard Farm Stand, and rolling hills, meadows, and wetlands.

The zip code is 01467.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Still_River,_Massachusetts

[David Sky]

8. I was going to post the same facts about this place in Mass yesterday but!

the thread was locked at the time.

Yes, I have been to the Still River section of the town of Harvard, Mass. many times, great for bike rides!

I have been in the Post Office, too!

[rug]

3. These groups have no recognition by or connection with the RCC.

"There are hundreds of traditionalist Catholic chapels around the United States that celebrate the Latin Tridentine Mass and dislike many of the liberalizing reforms enacted by the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s. But only a handful of these organizations qualify as part of the "radical traditionalist Catholic" movement that is characterized by open anti-Semitism and blames Jews for conspiring to destroy the Catholic Church and a number of other iniquities."

[onager]

4. Thanks! I knew the PCAs would jump right in...

Professional Catholic Apologists.

These groups have no recognition by or connection with the RCC.

Except for being founded and run by devout Catholics. Often fairly senior members of the Catholic clergy.

I thought it would be nice to provide some nostalgia for older Catholics. They can rest assured that the theology of Father Coughlin is still alive and well in today's One True Church.

[dmallind]

6. Far more recognition or connection than any "militant atheist" group you could imagine

Has to the larger body of atheists.

[cleanhippie]

7. Right, just like the child-raping priests have no connection either.

[LeftishBrit]

9. By the same token...

atheist groups that collaborated with totalitarian regimes have no connection with current ordinary atheist individuals and groups, even outspoken ones or ones that speak rudely at times.

There are rogue individuals and groups associated with virtually any belief system; but that doesn't mean that one should hold others of those belief systems guilty by association. Catholics as a whole should not be equated with Catholic hate groups or the IRA; Protestants as a whole should not be equated with the Ku Klux Klan or the Paisleyites; Muslims as a whole should not be equated with Al Quaeda; Jews as a whole should not be equated with the Kahanists - and atheists as a whole should not be equated with those who acted as enforcers for Stalinism.

[Kolesar]

5. The Church was already distancing itself from anti-Semitism forty years ago

It took cultural references and articles like these to make me aware of how nasty "certain Catholics" were toward Jews.
Congratulations on the cover up /sarcasm.

[Taverner]

10. They should have Bill Donohue on that list