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The Jewish Fifth Column in the Clergy PLOT AGAINST THE CHURCH: PART 4 THE JEWISH FIFTH COLUMN IN THE CLERGY By Maurice Pinay (1962) This volume includes sections IV, of Pinay's 'Plot Against the Church', which address the infiltration of the clergy by Occult secret societies. It was written before Vatican II in order to address the threat to the Church posed by the council. The book makes an excellent case using Church documents and 'Jewish histories', that the conspiracy to corrupt the Church from within has been active for over 2000 years. The long-standing conflict between occult infiltrators and Catholics has largely been ignored by Catholic historians. This is an important corrective. This version was translated from the original German and Spanish editions. Maurice Pinay is a pseudonym for the real authors, for a group of anonymous Catholic Bishops TABLE OF CONTENTS THE OCTOPUS STRANGLING CHRISTIANITY ........................................................................................ 4 ORIGIN OF THE "FIFTH COLUMN" ......................................................................................................... 6 THE FIFTH COLUMN IN ACTION .......................................................................................................... 12 JEWRY, FATHER OF THE GNOSTICS ................................................................................................... 18 THE JEW ARIUS AND HIS HERESY ..................................................................................................... 26 THE JEWS AS ALLIES OF JULIAN THE APOSTATE ............................................................................... 36 JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND AMBROSE CONDEMN THE JEWS ............................................................... 39 CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA EXPELS THE JEWS ........................................................................................ 45 BARBARIAN INVASION — TRIUMPH OF THE ARIAN JEWS .................................................................. 52 CATHOLIC VICTORY ............................................................................................................................ 56 THIRD COUNCIL OF TOLEDO REMOVES JEWS FROM PUBLIC OFFICES ............................................ 60 FOURTH TOLEDO COUNCIL EXCOMMUNICATES CLERGY SUPPORTING JEWS ................................. 62 CONDEMNATION OF NEGLIGENT KINGS AND CLERGY WHO FAIL TO RESIST CRYPTO-JEWRY ........ 70 THE CHURCH COMBATS SECRET JEWRY. ......................................................................................... 76 SIXTEENTH COUNCIL OF TOLEDO SET TO DESTROY FIFTH COLUMN ............................................... 86 SEVENTEENTH COUNCIL OF TOLEDO PUNISHES JEWISH CONSPIRACIES WITH SLAVERY ............... 89 CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RECONCILIATION PRELUDE TO COLLAPSE ........................................................ 94 THE JEWS BETRAY THEIR MOST LOYAL FRIENDS .......................................................................... 100 THE CHURCH COUNCILS FIGHT JEWRY ........................................................................................... 110 ATTEMPT TO BRING HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE UNDER JEWISH RULE ................................................. 117 THE COUNCIL OF MEAUX COMBATS OPEN AND SECRET JEWS ...................................................... 126 JEWISH TERROR IN CASTILE IN THE 14TH CENTURY ...................................................................... 132 THE JEWS BETRAY THEIR MOST MAGNANIMOUS PROTECTORS .................................................... 140 JEWISH INFILTRATION IN THE CLERGY ............................................................................................. 144 A JEWISH CARDINAL BECOMES POPE 1 ............................................................................................. 155 Page SAINTS BERNARD AND NORBERT FREE THE CHURCH FROM THE JEWISH ANTIPOPE .................... 162 A JEWISH-REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 12TH CENTURY ........................................................ 168 JEWISH REVOLUTIONS. SECULAR ATTACKS ON TRADITIONS OF THE CHURCH .............................. 173 SECRET JEWRY AND THE ALBIGENSIAN HERESY ............................................................................ 182 DANGEROUS ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH: JEWS AND THE WALDENSES .......................................... 191 GREGORY VII DESTROYS A JEWISH THEOCRACY IN NORTH ITALY ................................................ 194 JEWISH 'FIFTH COLUMN' IN RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ............................................................ 197 JEWS SPREAD THE CULT OF SATAN ................................................................................................ 202 JEWISH REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES .......................................................................... 204 BISHOPS ACCUSED OF WORSHIPPING LUCIFER .............................................................................. 209 THIRD LATERAN COUNCIL REBUKES CLERGY WHO FAIL TO OPPOSE HERETICS .......................... 213 FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON JEWS. ................................................... 218 MONKS, NUNS AND PRELATES AS SECRET JEWS ........................................................................... 223 JEWISH INFILTRATION OF JESUIT ORDER ........................................................................................ 237 CONSPIRACIES AGAINST HISTORY AND THE RITES ......................................................................... 244 ERRORS OF THE NAZIS AND IMPERIALISTS ...................................................................................... 247 APPENDIX: INTRODUCTORY NOTES ................................................................................................. 252 HERITAGE HISTORY EDITOR’S NOTE This volume is composed of the fourth (and longest) section of Maurice Pinay's Plot Against the Church. It focuses on a widely misunderstood topic: the long struggle of faithful Catholics against the treachery and interference of malicious Jews, especially those who have infiltrated the Church and harmed her from within. Virtually all Modern Church histories avoid the topic, either by failing to disclose any treachery by Jewish actors, or by failing to identify the semitic background of certain heretics, or by dismissing long-standing Christian distrust of Jews as mere superstition or prejudice. Contemporary Christians who consider themselves well educated may be shocked to find out just how serious and long- standing the Church's problem with "Jewish" subversion really is. The information in this book is a badly needed corrective to the 'bowdlerized', pro-Jewish Catholic histories that are found in virtually all modern Catholic institutions. Pinay's book was published in 1962, prior the Second Vatican Council. It's purpose was to warn Catholics of the danger posed by enemies of the Church who have infiltrated her ranks, and intend harm. Since the book was written in the early sixties, the first few sections of the book focuses largely on the problem of "Communism" and world revolutions, since those were the visible crises on the minds of most people at the time. The authors point out that almost all the Communist and revolutionary movements rocking governments around the world were the work of Jewish agitators and intellectuals. They are aware they will be called "anti-Semitic" but want to establish the malice and perfidity of certain elements of the Semitic peoples beyond a shadow of a doubt before recounting the long struggle of the Catholic Church against 'The Synagogue of Satan'. 2 Page The three sections of 'Plot Against the Church' that address the Jewish threat in terms of political subversion are I: "The Force Behind Communism", II: "The Power Behind Freemasonry", and III: "The Synagogue of Satan". The material in these section, addressing diverse aspects of the 'Jewish Problem' is covered in numerous other books. The volume include only Part IV: "The Jewish Fifth Column in the Clergy", because that is of most immediate interest in terms of Ecclesiastical History and corruption specific to the Catholic Church. Because this book deals with controversial topics, we recommend reading some of the introductory material listed in the Appendix. They are so voluminous we have moved them to the end of the book rather than the preface. Most were written by origin authors, translators, or publishers. These include introductions to the following Editions: English Online Edition, American Edition, Italian Edition, Austrian Edition, German Edition, Spanish Edition. DEDICATION To the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God; to St. Joseph, Protector of the Universal Church; to St. Michael the Archangel, Prince of the Supernatural Host in the struggle against Satan, the first Naturalist; to St. Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic Church's Teacher of Order; and to St. Anthony of Padua, "Hammer of the Heretics." "In our time more than ever before, the chief strength of the wicked lies in the cowardice and weakness of good men . All the strength of Satan's reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics. Oh! if I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the prophet Zachary did in spirit: What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands? The answer would not be doubtful: With these was I wounded in the house of them that loved Me. I was wounded by My friends, who did nothing to defend Me, and who, on every occasion, made themselves the accomplices of My adversaries. And this reproach can be levelled at the weak and timid Catholics
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