Book Blurb: Major Gen. Count Cherep-Spiridovich - The Catholic Church And The Jews.

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Book Blurb: Major Gen. Count Cherep-Spiridovich - The Catholic Church And The Jews.
His usual "telegraphic style" diatribe based on laborious historical research listing the canonical, church law prohibitions regulating the behaviour of the Jews and the interaction of Christians with them.

Did Nostra Aetate / Vatican II in 1965 change the applicability of any of these provisions of Canon law which were evidently still extant before Spiridovich's death in the 1920s?

 "... Christians would never have groaned under their tyranny if they
had observed the proscriptions of the church. ..."
  It would be interesting to know if there is a single country in the world where the Jews are welcomed and trusted; racial characteristics have made them loathed for centuries.
  The Jews will begin to be respected when they have learned that for such ills as they suffer they have only themselves to blame and start on individual and racial soul rising above the animal and law of the pack stage."


...the Catholic Church has been the Lion in the path of the Jews.
While Protestants of every sect have as often not supported and
assisted the Jews, the Catholic Church has always recognized them
as the eternal and inevitable enemies of the Church of Christ.

...As the Canon Law is still in force, and all its provisions,
not being merely local or temporary, are directly binding on all
Catholics, and indirectly on all Christians, such like our Civil
Common Law, we quote abstracts on the principal councils which
legislated on the subject from the end of the third to the middle of
the Nineteenth Century, so that all Christianity may be fully
informed and to abide by as a matter of self-preservation.

  The First Council which seems to have concerned itself
with the Jews is the Council of Elvira (Spain) in 300AD. Canon 50
forbids eating with Jews.

  The Council of Leodicia (340-347): Canons 37 and 38
forbid the acceptance from Jews of any presents, the keeping of
any fast or festival with them, and the receiving from them of any
unleavened bread.  ...

  The Council of Genoes (465): Canon 12 forbids clerks to
attend Jewish festivals.

  The Council of AGDE (506): Canon 34, etc., and the
Council of Yonne (517), forbid the taking part in any marriage
feasts, or merely eating with Jews.

  The Councils of Orleans, held in 533, 538 and 541,
prohibited marriage with Jews on pain of nullity; renewed the
prohibition against eating with them, and by Canon 30 of the
Council of 538 they were forbidden to go out of their houses for
four days from Holy Thursday. They were forbidden, also, to make
converts to Judaism, on pain of the confiscation of all their slaves,
which, apparently they were then allowed to possess.

  The Council of Macon (581) decreed several Canons
dealing with Jews. They are declared incapable of exorcising any
functions, as judges or magistrates, which would allow them to
decree punishments against Christians. The Canons seem intended
to prevent Jews occupying posts where they could injure Christian
slaves; if they kept any, they may be compelled to sell them at a
fixed price, which, if they refuse to accept, the slaves are free. The
prohibitions of the Council of Orleans are renewed.

  There were four Councils of Toledo, held successively in
589, 633, 638 and 681, for Spain and Southern Gaul; one at Paris
in 614, which was the most numerously attended of the Frankish
Councils, 79 bishops being present; and one at Rheims in 685, at
which 40 bishops were present. These Councils reproduced the
decrees previously mentioned and added others, such as the
prohibition to the Jews to work on Sunday. ...

  At the Council of Toledo in 694 (on the state of the
Kingdom), ...[the] Council alludes to a _conspiracy_ by which the Jews
endeavored to occupy the throne and bring about the ruin of the
land, "...the Jews reign in Grenada. They have divided between
them the city and the province, and everywhere one of this
accursed race is in supreme power." Somewhat similar is the
situation in Great Britain and the United States today.

  Canon 11 of the Council of Constantinople (Quinisext 691)
forbids a Christian to habitually consort with Jews, to accept any
medicine from, or go to the Baths with them. The penalty is
despoliation for a clerk and excommunication for a layman.

  Several of the prohibitions already indicated, especially that
against eating and drinking with Jews, were renewed by the
Councils of Rouen (744), Nicea (787), Pavia (890) and Metz (858).
Prohibitions against their having, not only slaves, but ordinary
servants and Christian nurses, and against Christians living with
them, appear in the Councils of Coyanza (1050), Szabola (1092)
and Grar in Hungary (1114, Canon 61).

  In 1179 was held the Third Lateran Council, regarded as
the 11th Ecumenical Council, and Canon 26 pronounces
excommunication against those who live with Jews.

  One of the most stringent Councils was that of Avignon in
1209. Canon 4 forbids Christians to have any money transactions
with Jews. It condemns the latter to restore all they had extorted by
usury. This is about the period of their expulsion by Philip
Augustus, which, however, must have been very partial, for there
is a law of 1206 limiting the rate of interest charged by the
"persecuted race" to 43 per cent. Canons 67, 68 and 69 of the
Fourth Lateran Council (1215) are to similar effect. But it may be
doubted whether any of the decrees of the Coumco's, as regards
Jews were then, any more than now, generally obeyed, the Jewish
peril would not be the world problem of today!

  About the end of the Thirteenth Century was adopted the
method of distinguishing Christians from Jews by proscribing the
wearing by the latter of a circular disc of yellow cloth called a
_Rouella Noguella_, and a sort of pointed cap for women called
_Gornallia_, by the Council of Avignon (1325), later on, as will be
seen, a yellow cap called a _Birsttus Qlougus_ was prescribed for the
men. After the Fourth Lateran Council may be mentioned that of
Milan (1331), punishing priors who borrowed from Jews; and
those of Norbonne (1227), Roune (1231), Targona (1239) and
Belziers (1245), renewing in whole or part the prohibition quoted
above, and adding others. All insist on the _Rouella_.

  In parts of Germany the Jews were forbidden to go out, or
even to be seen in a window on Good Friday.
In 1267 the Council of Vienna not only refers to, but
especially enumerates all the prescriptions before mentioned, and
enjoins their secret observance. It adds the prohibition against
joining in any games with Jews (why all this fuss about Jews being
barred from Olympic Games or buying meat from them). The Jews
are forbidden on pain of expulsion to build new synagogues. A
Jew having intercourse with a Christian is punished with fine and
imprisonment, while the woman is shipped or driven out of the
town. The Councils of Albe (1254), Montpellier (1255), Bourgeis
(1276), Post Auear (1279), Ofen in Hungary (1279), Anse (1300),
Treves (1310), Bologna (1337), Valladolid (1322), Avignon (1337
and 1347), Prague (1349), Apt (1365), Levaur (1365), Palentia
(1388), Salsburg (1418), Bamberg (1415) and others renew many
of the restrictions without adding others, except in a few cases. No
Christian could be legally forced to pay usury to Jews. The Council
of Albe and Montpellier prohibited the Jews from selling their
meat at Christian markets, and by the Council of Bologna,
Christians were forbidden to sell or let houses to them, or to sell to
or to buy from them, chalices or church vestments.

...
To return to the subject of dress, the Council of Salsburg
(1418) Canon 33 imposes on Jews the wearing of a yellow cap and
on Jewesses the attaching of a little bill to their costume.

  ...But the Council of Cologne (1158) decrees the
wearing of the _Rouells_ and that held in Milan (1565) prohibits
intercourse with Jews under penalties.

  ...On January 13, 1489, Chyemor, Jewish rabbi of Aries in Provence
wrote for advice from the Grand Sanhedrin, which had its seat at
Constantinople, as the people of Aries were threatening the
synagogues. What should they do? This was the reply:
"Dearly beloved brethren in Moses - we have received your letter in
which you tell us of the anxieties and misfortunes you are enduring.
We are pierced with great pain to hear it as you are yourselves. The
advice of the Grand Satraps and Rabbis is the following:
  "As for what you say that the King of France obliges you to become
Christians, do it, since you cannot do otherwise, but let the Law of
Moses be kept in your hearts.
  As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your goods
(the law was that on becoming converted the Jews would give up their
possessions), make your sons merchants, that little by little they may
despoil the Christian of theirs.
As for what you say about making attempts on your lives, make your
sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians' lives.
As for what you say about destroying your synagogues, make your sons
canons and cleric that they may destroy churches.
As for the many other vexations you complain of, arrange that your sons
become advocates and bankers, and see that they always mix themselves
up with the affairs of state, in order that by putting Christians under your
yoke, you may dominate the world and be avenged on them.
Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because you will find
by experience that humiliated as you are, you will win the actuality of
power..." signed _U.S.S.V.F.F., Prince of the Jews, 21st Caslun
(November) 1489_.

  In the Nineteenth Century, Councils at Fresburg (1822),
Strigonia (1848), Venice (1859), Prague (1860) and Utrecht (1865)
forbid Catholics to have recourse to Jewish midwives, or to be
nurses, or even ordinary servants to Jews.

  All the above prescriptions may be regarded as part of the
_Corpus Juris Canonic_ nor have they been abrogated or fallen into
abidance. They have been violated, or according to modern
phrases, ignored and the bishops have set the example. As regards
Christian nations, however, it is clearly the mind of the church that
Jews should not hold any public functions.

  Finally it is interesting to note that in the Council of Oxford
held under Stephen Langton in 1222, there are two Canons relating
to Jews, and by the Council of Lambeth, held under Archbishop
Boniface in 1261, Jews were forbidden to traffic or converse with
the faithful, and which but affirmed the Common Law of England
that the Jews are alien in the highest degree and are not entitled to
greater rights than another alien. Those Canons are also in full
force and effect as part of the civil religious law of the Church of
England. In 1392, Monsignor Kohn, the grandson of a converted
Jew, known as Archbishop of Clnots, Austria Hungary, in the
course of a reply to Catholics who objected that the race was
principal cause of social disorder and unrest, pointed out that
Christians would never have groaned under their tyranny if they
had observed the proscriptions of the church. ...
He briefly summarized the chief precepts of the
Canon Laws of the church still in force as follows:

  1. Jews cannot employ Christians in domestic service nor
ought Christians to accept any salaried employment by
Jews.
  2. Christian women are especially forbidden to accept
positions as nurses in Jewish households.
  3. Christians are forbidden to receive the attentions of
Jewish doctors, or to take medicine prepared by a Jew.
  4. Christians are forbidden on pain of excommunication to
dwell under the same roof, or live in the same family
with Jews.
  5. An obligation exists to see that Jews do not exercise
any public function, nor take authority over Christians.
  6. Christians are forbidden to be present at Jewish
marriages. ...

  The Spanish Inquisition was established in 1478 by
Ferdinand and Isabella to punish Apostate Jews of Spain who were
openly professing Christianity for gain and preferment, while
secretly practicing Judaism and favoring the Moors. These
Marranos through their wealth and intermarriage with noble
families, were deemed a menace to the unity of the kingdom, as
Great Britain is so menaced today. After the conquest of Granada
many of the Moors also became Christians, not out of conviction
but personal gain, and uniting with Jews were feared by the
Christians. ...The Inquisition, however, did not force Christianity
on those who did not believe, but persecuted those who professed
a Christianity they inwardly rejected. Under Philip II, the Inquisition,
besides destroying the control of Jewish finances and Jews in high
places, saved Spain from the religious and other wars promoted by
Jews among all nations.

  ...There are no more intolerant races on the face of the earth
than the Jews. The Jewish idea of liberty is liberty to agree to
licentiousness for themselves, and callous boycott of those who do
not. Every Gentile committing _lese majeste_ against the Jew is
kicked out of his position or employment, and Jewish advertising
agents boycott any newspaper or magazine carrying articles giving
the truth about the Jews.

  The Jews have themselves to thank, if they are loathed
wherever they go. As was said by a magistrate sitting in East Side
Court of New York City not long ago about the Jews, "They bite
the hand that feeds them."

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