Southern Poverty Law Center Puts “Singing Nuns” on Its Hate Groups Map [Archive]

palani

12th March 2013, 05:47 PM

Their weapon of choice? Voice projectiles.

AK47s may be hidden quite easily under those vestments though.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/outrageous-far-left-southern-poverty-law-center-puts-singing-nuns-on-its-hate-groups-map/

A typical hate group, huh?

The Singing Nuns are traditional Catholic Sisters, members of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. In other words, they wear their full-length blue habits all the time — not just on special occasions or when they are singing. Their motherhouse, St. Michael’s Convent, is located at Mount St. Michael, just north of Spokane, Washington.

The far left says these traditional Catholic nuns are a hate group.
The Spokesman-Review reported, via Free Republic:

What do the Aryan Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and the home of Spokane’s Singing Nuns have in common?

They’re all on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s map of “hate groups” in the Northwest.

Mount St. Michael, home to a Latin Rite or Tridentine Catholic church, school and convent north of Spokane, has been listed since 2006 by the law center as a radical traditional Catholic group and accused of anti-Semitic activities.

Last week, the law center released the annual update of its “hate map” of groups around the country, which includes an interactive, easy-to-use online graphic. Mount St. Michael is one of 16 organizations mapped for Washington, sharing the state listing with a potpourri of neo-Nazi, Klan, Christian Identity, black separatist, white nationalist and racist skinhead groups.

The Alabama-based watchdog organization defends the St. Michael listing, but it surprised one of its local allies and prompted one longtime critic to say the center was showing its political bias.

The Rev. Casimir Puskorius, pastor of Mount St. Michael, calls the listing “very unfair” and contends it’s a result of a liberal organization taking issue with the teachings of a conservative Christian group.

“We considered suing them, some years ago, but they have more resources than us,” Puskorius said.

JohnQPublic

12th March 2013, 10:47 PM

The SPLC's Dirty Dozen (http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/winter/the-dirty-dozen)

CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS INTERNATIONAL
State Line, Pa.
Catholic Apologetics International (CAI) was founded in 1993 by Robert Sungenis, a man who would develop into one of the most rabid and open anti-Semites in the entire radical traditionalist movement.

[Problem is, he is barely a traditional Catholic in the sense of say SSPX, and hardly a radical one. He is your favorite geocentrist, and mine. JQP]

CATHOLIC COUNTERPOINT
Broomhall, Pa.

[I]

CATHOLIC FAMILY NEWS/CATHOLIC FAMILY MINISTRIES, INC.
Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Catholic Family Ministries, which publishes the monthly Catholic Family News (CFN), is run by John Vennari, a former monk at the Holy Family Monastery in Berlin, N.J., who says he is now part of the official Vatican press corps.

[Pretty well known in traditional circles. I get some enews from them. JQP].

CULTURE WARS/FIDELITY PRESS
South Bend, Ind.
E. Michael Jones, a former hippie who says he spent his honeymoon stuck in traffic while trying to reach the 1969 Woodstock Festival...

[Nice guy, and author of The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit: And Its Impact on World History. I have the book and have subscribed ot Culture Wars in the past. JQP]

THE FATIMA CRUSADER/INTERNATIONAL FATIMA ROSARY CRUSADE
Constable, N.Y.
The International Fatima Rosary Crusade, known popularly as the Fatima Center, takes its name from Fatima, Portugal, the place where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three peasant children in 1916 with a series of revelations. The center was founded in 1977 by Father Nicholas Gruner...

LEGION OF ST. LOUIS/IHS PRESS
Norfolk, Va.
John Sharpe Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former submarine officer and media spokesman for the Atlantic Fleet, runs both the Legion of St. Louis (LSL) and IHS Press -- two of the most nakedly anti-Semitic organizations in the entire radical traditionalist Catholic pantheon.

[He has collaborated with E. Michael Jones in the past, especially on the topic of neocons. JQP]

OMNI CHRISTIAN BOOK CLUB
Palmdale, Calif.

[Don't know much about them. JQP].[I]

THE REMNANT/THE REMNANT PRESS
Forest Lake, Minn.
The biweekly newspaper The Remnant was started in 1967 and edited for decades by the recently deceased Walter L. Matt, who had worked for his family's conservative newspaper The Wanderer but left over a dispute about the Vatican II church reforms. The Remnant has been edited since 2002, when Matt died, by his youngest son, Michael J. Matt, and features a Who's Who of radical traditonalist writers. These include columnist Mark Alessio, American Catholic Lawyers Association head Christopher Ferrara, (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=395)Robert Sungenis (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=720), and John Vennari (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1298#2).

[Another tradional/orthodox Catholic organization. JQP].

SLAVES OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
Richmond, N.H.
At the end of a dirt road atop a wooded mountain in southwestern New Hampshire, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary own a complex of three main buildings, the basement of one of which is used as a church. Members of the larger Slaves community live in the surrounding country, sending their children to a school run by the organization. The Slaves are followers of the anti-Semitic priest Leonard Feeney, a "genius" who started the organization after he was excommunicated in 1953.

[I have mixed feelings about them. JQP].

ST. JOSEPH FORUM
South Bend, Ind.
A privately run organization dedicated to "addressing the root causes of the crisis in the Church," the St. Joseph Forum specializes in popularizing the writings of the anti-Semitic Irish priest, Father Denis Fahey, through its "Project Awaken" program. In several books, the late Fahey wrote that society and the church had been twisted by "the leadership of the Jews, who wield such enormous power in the modern world through the subjection of man to production and production to finance."...The conferences typically bring together some of the most extreme voices in the radical traditionalist world, including John Vennari (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1298#2), E. Michael Jones, (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1299), Father Nicholas Gruner (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1299#2), John Sharpe (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1300), and Brother Anthony Mary (http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1301), who described Jews at the 2005 conference as "the perpetual enemy of Christ."

[Don't know much about them. E. Michael Jones is also in South Bend as is Notre Dame University].

ST. MICHAEL'S PARISH/MOUNT ST. MICHAEL
Spokane, Wash.
Formed in 1978 when radical traditionalist Francis Schuckardt bought a Tudor-Gothic building on a bluff overlooking northern Spokane, Wash., St. Michael's Parish has long been a center of extreme-right Catholic activities.

[sedevecantists. JQP]

TRADITION IN ACTION
Los Angeles, Calif.
Tradition in Action was formed in 1995 by Marian Horvat and is dedicated to creating "counter-revolutionaries" -- people willing to fight changes in the church, starting at the time of the French Revolution, that were supposedly wrought by Masons, Jews, and "other seminal secret forces."

[I have seen some of their work. A little sensationalist. JQP]