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Offline Hatchc

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John Oesterreicher
« on: July 12, 2013, 03:09:37 PM »
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  • This profile of Oesterreicher was written years before Nostra Aetate.

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    The Point February 1956

    II — The Refugee

    The Point ’s second White Jєω is drawn from the religious rather than the secular world,
    but he has been no less a problem to our readers than Mr. Baruch. He is a refugee from
    Austria who now conducts, at a Catholic college in New Jersey, a one-man propaganda
    agency called the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies. So “White” is this Jєω that at
    the age of twenty he submitted himself to the ritual of Christian Baptism, and then went
    on to become a Catholic priest. His name is Father John M. Oesterreicher.
    Before Baptism, John Oesterreicher had been a student of medicine. Three years and a
    few theology books later, he was ordained a Catholic priest. Even his most prostrate
    apologists have wondered at such a speeded-up process. And more thoughtful observers
    have concluded that in the Church which harbors such painful and multiple memories of
    deceitfully converted “Marrano” Jєωs, there is something most unusual, to say the least,
    about the urgency with which John Osterreicher was rushed from Baptism to Holy
    Orders.

    Whether by deliberate design or not, the historical fact is that, for hundreds of
    thousands of German-speaking Jєωs, Father Oesterreicher’s sudden priesthood became
    an immediate weapon against the rising anti-Jєωιѕнness of Adolph Hitler. With the
    weight of the Catholic Church presumably behind him, and the passion of his Jєωιѕн
    blood clearly pushing him on, Father Oesterreicher began a frenzied crusade of writing
    and speaking. He invoked, as authorities, both saints and sociologists, popes and
    psychiatrists. He devised arguments from demonology and anthropology, from
    scholastics and rationalists — all to prove to the Catholics of Austria and Germany that
    anyone who speaks ill of a Jєω is actually blaspheming Jesus Christ Himself!  
     
    The same Catholics who well knew that the program proposed by Hitler was hardly the
    Church’s solution to the Jєωιѕн question, knew quite as well that Father Oesterreicher
    did not have the answer either.

    As Hitler proceeded across Europe, Father Oesterreicher managed to keep several towns
    ahead of him, and finally, in 1941, turned up as a curate in New York City. Since there
    were in our whole country only about a dozen Jєωιѕн-convert priests, Father
    Oesterreicher proved to be a popular novelty. He was the object of much parochial
    curiosity and found no difficulty in gathering an inquisitive crowd for the lectures he
    started to give within six months of his arrival here. His message was invariably of one
    theme. Always there was the appeal to respect, to admire, to love, to fall down in the
    mud and worship the Jєωιѕн race. And always the appeal was subtly charged with what
    Father Oesterreicher hoped would pass for the binding authority of the Catholic Church.

    But Father Oesterreicher did not have to depend solely upon his own initiative. He had a
    number of American boosters, of whom perhaps the most zealous was Professor Jacques
    Maritain. Professor Maritain is the French-born, Protestant-reared, Catholic
    philosopher who married a Russian Jєωess named Raïssa Oumansoff. Although known
    in this country as a speaker at Jєωιѕн seminaries and teacher at Masonic universities,
    Maritain did try to get a position at a Catholic school. Some years ago, he was
    interviewed for a job at Fordham University, and stipulated in the course of the
    discussion that he would expect to be given free rein in all his classes to criticize the
    pope. Fordham’s Jesuit president turned him down, and Maritain took a job at
    Princeton, no holds barred.

    When Professor Maritain received an honorary degree a few months ago from Jєωιѕн
    Brandeis University, his support of Father Oesterreicher accounted for much of the
    genuine applause he received from the assembled representatives of American Jєωry.
    For Father Oesterreicher, in every point of his Judaeo-Christian program, has complied
    exactly with the publicized objectives of the powerful American Jєωιѕн Committee. In
    his books, Walls Are Crumbling and The Bridge, Father Oesterreicher’s glorification of
    the Jєωs would erase forever from Catholic minds those New Testament texts which the
    Jєωιѕн Committee has so repeatedly attacked as “anti-Semitic.” Saint Peter’s accusation
    in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 5, that the Jєωs are the murderers of Christ; Saint
    Stephen’s vehement repetition of this charge in chapter 7; Saint Paul’s elaboration on
    the guilt and curse of the Jєωs in I Thessalonians, 2:15 — these and all other biblical
    indictments of the Jєωιѕн people are blotted out and replaced by Father Oesterreicher’s
    devotion to such unbaptized “saints” as Jєωιѕн logician Edmund Husserl and Jєωιѕн
    intuitionist Henri Bergson.

    In his compliance with the American Jєωιѕн Committee’s declared aim, “to revise
    Christian religious teaching,” Father Oesterreicher has consistently depreciated the tall
    stacks of papal legislation against the Jєωs. And, even more boldly, he has demanded a
    rewording of the Church’s liturgy, proposing that our annual Good Friday reference to
    the “perfidious Jєωs” be changed in meaning! The American Jєωιѕн Committee followed up
    Father Oesterreicher’s proposal by pulling every string within its grasp from here to Rome.
    The result? The following half-hearted, much-guarded statement by the Vatican’s Congregation
    of Rites: “This Sacred Congregation, having been consulted about the matter, has deemed it
    advisable to make the following declaration only: That, in translations into the vernacular,
    phrases are not disapproved of which the meaning (for ‘perfidious Jєωs’) is ‘infidels without belief.’ ”

    Although we may be assured from our Faith that nineteen hundred years of Church
    policy toward the crucifiers of Christ will never be undone by one strategically-placed
    Jєω, still, it is encouraging to be presented with clear evidence of just how little pro-
    Jєωιѕн residue Father Oesterreicher leaves behind him. When President Truman’s
    Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine held its hearings in Vienna, the
    center of Father Oesterreicher’s “apostolate” during the thirties, there was not the least
    hint that Austrian Catholics had retained even a remembrance of the Oesterreicher
    “doctrines.” Indeed, the outlook of Austrian Catholics toward Jєωs was summarized
    most orthodoxly by His Excellency, Francis Kamprath, Vienna’s Auxiliary Bishop. As a
    gauge of the previous effectiveness of Father Oesterreicher’s Judaeo-Christian program,
    and a pledge of its ultimate failure, we conclude with the statement by Bishop
    Kamprath, taken from recorded testimony before the Anglo-American Committee:

    “During the war and in the time of the nαzιs there was a great deal of mistaken racial
    anti-Semitism. Today all anti-Semitism in Austria is religious anti-Semitism. That is
    justified.”


    Offline Eudes

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    John Oesterreicher
    « Reply #1 on: July 12, 2013, 06:41:28 PM »
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  • Do you have a link to this source?
    "The most evident mark of God's anger, and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world, is manifest when He permits His people to fall into the hands of a clergy who are more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of raveni


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    John Oesterreicher
    « Reply #2 on: July 16, 2013, 01:02:09 PM »
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  • Quote from: Eudes
    Do you have a link to this source?


    Apparently like you, I've been wondering why Hatchc has been slow in revealing his source. I found it here.

    Even with this link, I am far from ready to credit the authenticity of the sourcing. Why is no author name present? Why is it virtually impossible to learn anything at all about the people who run the hosting site for this and other articles being deliberately associated with Father Feeney, mostly without justification? Note, for example, that the site's FAQ includes the following disclaimer:

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    This website has no affiliation with any religion or religious organization and Father Feeney himself, as a traditionalist Catholic and not a “racist” or nationalist, would have vehemently opposed some of its content and some of the sites to which it links.


    One needn't be a h0Ɩ0h0αx apologist or a stooge for International Jєωry or one with some degree of sympathy for Monsignor Oesterreicher's subversion of the Faith—I myself am none of these—to desire a bit more forthrightness and forthcomingness from people whose bona fides are, by their own admission, highly questionable.

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    John Oesterreicher
    « Reply #3 on: July 19, 2013, 02:04:38 PM »
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  • I copied it from this site: http://fatherfeeney.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/the-point-february-1956/

    I don't know who the writer is, because it's customary in this newsletter to not mention the writer. But Father Feeney OK'd everything in The Point.

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    Feeney was editor of "The Point," which ran a mixture of theological and political articles, many of them branded anti-semitic by Feeney's critics. The newsletter frequently contained sentiments such as:

        "Those two powers, the chief two in the world today, are Communism and Zionism. That both movements are avowedly anti-Christian, and that both are in origin and direction Jєωιѕн, is a matter of record." (September 1958)
        "As surely and securely as the Jєωs have been behind Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, or Secularism, or Communism, they are behind the “anti-hate” drive. The Jєωs are advocating tolerance only for its destructive value — destructive, that is, of the Catholic Church. On their part, they still keep alive their racial rancors and antipathies." (January 1959)

    A single year, 1957, saw the following article titles:

        January: "Jєωιѕн Invasion of Our Country--Our Culture Under Siege"
        February: "When Everyone Was Catholic--The Courage of the Faith in the Thirteenth Century"
        March: "Dublin's Briscoe Comes to Boston"
        April: "The Fight for the Holy City--Efforts of the Jєωs to Control Jerusalem"
        May: "Our Lady of Fatima Warned Us"
        June: "The Rejected People of Holy Scripture: Why the Jєωs Fear the Bible"
        July: "The Judaising of Christians by Jєωs--Tactics of the Church's Leading Enemies"
        August: "A Sure Defense Against the Jєωs--What Our Catholic Bishops Can Do for Us"
        September: "An Unholy People in the Holy Land--The Actions of the Jєωs"
        October: "The Jєωιѕн Lie About Brotherhood--the Catholic Answer--Israeli Brotherhood"
        November: "Six Pointers on the Jєωs"


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Feeney