The RCC is riddled with cults which among other things are virulently
anti-semitic.
This is a very long article. An excerpt is posted below.
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Where Mel Gibson Got His Anti-Semitism
By Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Report
Posted on January 27, 2007, Printed on January 28, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/46854/
"Fucking Jews!"
So began Mel Gibson's now infamous anti-Semitic rant to Los Angeles
sheriff's deputies who pulled him over on suspicion of drunken driving
last July. "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," the
world-famous movie actor continued, before asking his arresting officer:
"Are you a Jew?"
After his tirade made international news, Gibson promptly disappeared
into an addiction clinic. He left behind a statement, released through a
spokesman, begging the Jewish community for forgiveness and suggesting
that booze was to blame. He was, he wrote, "in the process of
understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken
display." But their origin is easy enough to pinpoint -- the extremist
Catholic beliefs Gibson learned at the knees of his anti-Semitic father.
Gibson's dad, Hutton Gibson, is an important player in the shadowy world
of radical traditionalist Catholicism, also known as "integrism" or
Catholic separatism. This religious subculture's teachings have little
in common with the modern Roman Catholic Church and its universalistic
theology. Hutton Gibson, for one, is a well-known Holocaust denier who
believes the Second Vatican Council reforms of the 1960s, which made the
church vastly more tolerant of other faiths, were the result of "a
Masonic plot backed by the Jews." He is particularly incensed by the
council's historic declaration, "Nostra Aetate," which condemned "all
hatreds, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism leveled at any time or
from any source against the Jews." In Gibson's world, the Second Vatican
Council's liberalizing reforms are rejected and anti-Semitic teachings
and conspiracy theories are heartily embraced.
Like father, like son.
Mel Gibson has his own traditionalist house of worship near Los Angeles
-- a church, funded entirely by him, that is not recognized by the Los
Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese. It is unclear what is said in the
hallowed halls of the Holy Family Chapel, since, unlike virtually all
other Catholic churches, it is closed to the public. What is known is
that Gibson is reported to have blamed Jews for forcing him to cut a
scene, in which Jews and their descendants are held responsible for the
murder of Christ, from his 2004 film, "The Passion of the Christ."
Sounding a bit like he did that July night in Malibu, Gibson told The
New Yorker: "If I included that in there, they'd be coming after me at
my house. They'd come to kill me."
Few Americans defended Mel Gibson's drunken rant about the evils of the
Jews. But radical traditionalist Catholics did. A three-year
investigation of this subculture by the Intelligence Report has found
that these Catholic extremists, including the Gibsons, may well
represent the largest population of anti-Semites in the United States.
Organized into a network of more than a dozen organizations, scores of
websites and several extremist churches and monasteries, radical
traditionalists in the U.S. are preaching anti-Semitism to as many as
100,000 followers. A few, such as the lawyer for Terri Schiavo's family,
Christopher Ferrara, are even movers and shakers in important right-wing
Republican circles.
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