Southern Poverty Law Center
'Radical traditionalist Catholics' comprise major anti-Semitic movement
Jan. 17, 2007 -- The growing number of "radical traditionalist Catholics," men and women
who angrily reject many of the Vatican's core teachings, may form the single largest group of
hard-core αnтι-ѕємιтєs in America, according to a report, The New Crusaders, released today in the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report.
With more than 100,000 U.S. followers, famously including actor Mel Gibson's father Hutton Gibson, the
radical traditionalist movement embraces a series of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, has significant financial and publishing resources, and, in a growing number of cases,
is interacting with white supremacist and h0Ɩ0cαųst denial extremist groups. Movement leaders routinely pillory the
Jєωs as "the perpetual enemy of Christ" and worse. "
Most Americans know very little about the world of radical traditionalist Catholics," said Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report and director of the Center's Intelligence Project. "But the reality is that it is a
grossly anti-Semitic movement that is thriving despite the fact that mainstream Catholics entirely reject its teachings and the Vatican has excommunicated many of its leading activists and ideologues."
The report, the result of a three-year investigation by the Intelligence Report, identifies as hate groups a
dozen radical traditionalist Catholic institutions in California, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington. The New Crusaders :applause:
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