Did Father Feeney mean physical harm to Jews? The answer is no.
From:
• Catholic Power And The Plots Of The Jews (September 1955)
[excerpt]
The current Jewish rush to remake our Christian laws is prompted by a vivid memory and a well-founded fear. The memory is of those countless regulations which every Catholic society, down through the ages of Faith, has imposed on the Jews to keep them well watched, well restrained, and very well segregated. The fear is of 32,000,000 American Catholics and of what would happen to the lately-won freedom of the Jews if this great block of Americans should suddenly decide that things had gone far enough — if American Catholics should conclude that, after all, the saints had a lot on their side when they said (as Saint Gregory of Nyssa did in his famous sermon on the Resurrection) that the Jews are nothing more than, “Slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, adversaries of God, haters of God, men who show contempt for the law, foes of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, 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.”
[end of excerpt]
What did St. Gregory of Nyssa (who by the way hoped for the salvation of all men) say which Father Feeney quoted:
“Slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, adversaries of God, haters of God, men who show contempt for the law, foes of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, 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.”
All of this is from scripture, including from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and St. John the Baptist and St. Paul and the Old Testament Prophets!
What does Father Feeney say:
"...every Catholic society, down through the ages of Faith, has imposed on the Jews to keep them well watched, well restrained, and very well segregated."
Nothing about physical harm, just prevent them as a group from doing harm.
It is hard for us in this post modern society to envision this as something righteous. Now, license to do as one pleases is substituted for freedom and everyone's opinion, no matter how half baked, is considered a just and true discussion of issues and the infamous: "all religions are the same" is touted as the ultimate religious truth. To claim the last is to call the Lord Jesus Christ a liar, since He repeatedly said in so many ways that he alone and the faith He described and showed us and proved to us was and is the only true religion, i.e. the Catholic Faith. Christ also warned of the Pharisees (the precursors of the modern Talmudic Judaists). Jesus told us:
He simply said to leave them alone. Father Feeney is simply noting what was done by Christian societies over the centuries to enforce that in the wake of a great deal of disruption and harm caused by this group. They managed to anger the Romans and most of Asia and huge parts of Europe and the Russians at one time or another. The excuse that it was the Christian faith that caused this is nonsense. Pagan Rome and Pagan Asia reacted this way long before Christian Europe or Russia reacted in this way.
If one wishes to quote St. Moses, please do.
Dt:31:16:
16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people (the Old Testament Israelites) rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, (DRV)
Dt:31:20:
20 For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant. (DRV)
Concerning this prophecy of St. Moses, the Lord Jesus Christ said:
Mt:24:
1 ¶ And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.
(DRV)
Lk:19:44:
44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. (DRV)
Lk:20:18:
18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. (DRV)
Lk:21:6:
6 These things which you see, the days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down. (DRV)
Notice that the worst sin they did was to reject the Lord Jesus Christ Who is the stone, and that it was His visitation to them that He refers to.
See:
From:
• Catholic Power And The Plots Of The Jews (September 1955)
[excerpt]
The current Jewish rush to remake our Christian laws is prompted by a vivid memory and a well-founded fear. The memory is of those countless regulations which every Catholic society, down through the ages of Faith, has imposed on the Jews to keep them well watched, well restrained, and very well segregated. The fear is of 32,000,000 American Catholics and of what would happen to the lately-won freedom of the Jews if this great block of Americans should suddenly decide that things had gone far enough — if American Catholics should conclude that, after all, the saints had a lot on their side when they said (as Saint Gregory of Nyssa did in his famous sermon on the Resurrection) that the Jews are nothing more than, “Slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, adversaries of God, haters of God, men who show contempt for the law, foes of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, 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.”
[end of excerpt]
What did St. Gregory of Nyssa (who by the way hoped for the salvation of all men) say which Father Feeney quoted:
“Slayers of the Lord, murderers of the prophets, adversaries of God, haters of God, men who show contempt for the law, foes of grace, enemies of their fathers’ faith, 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.”
All of this is from scripture, including from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and St. John the Baptist and St. Paul and the Old Testament Prophets!
What does Father Feeney say:
"...every Catholic society, down through the ages of Faith, has imposed on the Jews to keep them well watched, well restrained, and very well segregated."
Nothing about physical harm, just prevent them as a group from doing harm.
It is hard for us in this post modern society to envision this as something righteous. Now, license to do as one pleases is substituted for freedom and everyone's opinion, no matter how half baked, is considered a just and true discussion of issues and the infamous: "all religions are the same" is touted as the ultimate religious truth. To claim the last is to call the Lord Jesus Christ a liar, since He repeatedly said in so many ways that he alone and the faith He described and showed us and proved to us was and is the only true religion, i.e. the Catholic Faith. Christ also warned of the Pharisees (the precursors of the modern Talmudic Judaists). Jesus told us:
Mt:15:
1 ¶ Then came to him from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, …
12 Then came his disciples, and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard this word, were scandalized?
13 But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.
(DRV)
If one wishes to quote St. Moses, please do.
Dt:29:
24 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?
25 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:
26 And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:
27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:
28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.
(DRV)
Dt:31:16:
16 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people (the Old Testament Israelites) rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, (DRV)
Dt:31:20:
20 For I will bring them into the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey. And when they have eaten, and are full and fat, they will turn away after strange gods, and will serve them: and will despise me, and make void my covenant. (DRV)
Concerning this prophecy of St. Moses, the Lord Jesus Christ said:
Mt:24:
1 ¶ And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be destroyed.
(DRV)
Lk:19:44:
44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation. (DRV)
Lk:20:18:
18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. (DRV)
Lk:21:6:
6 These things which you see, the days will come in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down. (DRV)
Notice that the worst sin they did was to reject the Lord Jesus Christ Who is the stone, and that it was His visitation to them that He refers to.
See:
Wisdom Is Justified By Her Children
[excerpt]
71. Vespasian ruled for ten years. Vigorous in military discipline, through his fighting he restored to the republic many provinces which Nero had lost. He was unmindful of offenses and he bore lightly the insults said against him. In his second year Titus took and overthrew Jerusalem, where 1,100,000 Jews perished by famine and the sword. Beyond these, another 100,000 were publicly sold into slavery.
[end of excerpt]
Foreseeing this Jesus wept:
Lk:19:
35 And they brought him to Jesus. And casting their garments on the colt, they set Jesus thereon.
36 And as he went, they spread their clothes underneath in the way.
37 And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of his disciples began with joy to praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works they had seen,
38 Saying: Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory on high!
39 And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to him: Master, rebuke thy disciples.
40 To whom he said: I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
41 ¶ And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:
42 If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.
43 For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,
44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.
45 And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.
46 Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.
47 And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.
48 And they found not what to do to him: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
(DRV)
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