Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen the local media note the Kansas connection to the controversy over the Pope's recent move to bring Catholic traditionalists back into the fold.
Leonard Zeskind discusses the connection in his latest blog post.
I am looking at a copy of the title page from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious Czarist forgery that has been part of the anti-Semitic stock in trade for more than a century. This particular edition was translated into English by “Victor E. Marsden,” and was published in 1934. And it was “Item: 6012,” its price was listed as $5.00, and it was sold by the “Immaculata Bookstore” in St. Mary’s, Kansas in 1993. The Immaculata Bookstore being part of St. Mary’s Academy & College, which described itself as one of the “Traditional Catholic Schools of the Society of St. Pius X.Zeskind concludes
In an interview with Salomon Korn, the vice-president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Korn concludes that, “As long as Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t send a clear signal that all Catholics must support the Second Vatican Council, things simply cannot return to normal.”
And it is on that small patch of ink that the truth of the matter resides.
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Several "traditional catholic" sects reside in this area, one claims a Pope Michael that lives on a farm near St. Marys. Several "pro-life" milita members have been arrested in other areas who hail from this region. You wouldn't know it from stopping by the stores on the highway through town. The "seminary" an abandoned catholic school on the hill has been slowly restored over years, when the Vatican sold it to one of the sects, most of the windows were broken.
Residents complain about each other and rival sects claim "one true faith" etc. All are far right in political sympathies, varying only in the number of guns they own.
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