Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

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of Music was simply because, in this movie, the “bad guys” were Nazis and
the heroine was a woman.
Bishop Williamson continued the class by drawing a timeline on the
board. He explained that history is a series of cycles. God lifts men to a
new height of culture and then, within 500 years, civilization descends into
decadence. Following a “divine and necessary chastisement,” God once
again elevates new heroes, and society begins its next ascent. Modern society,
according to the Bishop, was at the end of one of these five-hundredyear
cycles, and he informed us that God would soon chastise humanity,
wiping out a large portion of civilization. This was necessary, he explained,
because Catholics had lost their faith and virtue, bringing about the disorder
of world-domination by the Jews.
So it was that, sitting in our first class on the first day of our formation
to the Catholic Priesthood, we were already being indoctrinated by the rector’s
antisemitism. The Bishop explained that, for thousands of years, God
had given the Jews many gifts in preparation for the coming Messiah. Once
Our Lord came, and the Jewish people rejected him, they began, and continue
now, to use their God-given gifts to pursue world-domination, in order
to destroy the Catholic Church and rule human society. “Europeans, left to
themselves, are not powerful enough to stand up the Jews,” the Bishop told
us. “Only when European Catholics return to tradition will the Jews again
be subservient to the Catholics, as in the Middle Ages.”
The Bishop explained that a Catholic Pope would come back to power,
destroy Modernism, and consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. These acts of God would raise man to new heights and there would
be peace in the world—for about twenty-five years. After this, man would
reinvent computers. Once man began, again, to dabble in technology, he
would quickly descend, not in the 500 years it normally takes for a historical
cycle, but immediately, into the hands of the Anti-Christ. The Bishop
assured us that, although he probably would not live to see the Anti-Christ,
all of us would. So much for day one at the seminary.
Bishop Williamson’s Guest Speakers
Bishop Williamson reinforced his teaching by inviting guest speakers
who agreed with him to lecture at the Seminary. During the 1992-93 school
year, the seminary hosted Mr. Bryan Ellison, a doctoral student from Berkeley
University, whose theory was that AIDS is caused not by HIV, but
rather by excessive drug and antibiotic abuse among homosexuals.
While in the seminary, I came to understand that, for each news story
or historical event, there is always a “non-official explanation” – a conspiracy
theory, which differed from the story presented by the “vile media,” as