Antisemitic Catholic traditionalists roil New Hampshire town

September 1, 2007 8:59 am henrymunsonjr Catholic traditionalism, Christianity, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust
   
Members of the Saint Benedict Center, which has been in a protracted dispute with many of its neighbors, include (clockwise from upper left) Brothers Maximilian Maria and Andre Marie, their superior Francis, and Sisters Marie Therese and Maria Philomena. Andre Marie, whose real name is Louis Villarrubia, condemns
Members of the Saint Benedict Center, which has been in a protracted dispute with many of its neighbors, include (clockwise from upper left) Brothers Maximilian Maria and Andre Marie, their superior Francis, and Sisters Marie Therese and Maria Philomena. Andre Marie, whose real name is Louis Villarrubia, condemns “the Jewish tendency to undermine public morals” — one of many reflections of the center’s anti-Semitism. Photography by Dave White

SPLCenter.org: Trouble in Paradise, summer, 2007

In 2004, SBC prior Louis Villarrubia, who goes by the name of Brother Andre Marie, put it like this: “If anti-Semitism means opposing the Jews on religious matters, opposing the Zionist state in Palestine (as St. Pius X did), or opposing the Jewish tendency to undermine public morals (widely acknowledged by Catholic writers before the present age of PC [political correctness]), then we could rightly be considered such.”

That same year, The Boston Globe quoted Brother Anthony Mary, whose real name is Douglas Bersaw, blaming the Jews for the murder of Christ and denying the World War II Holocaust: “There’s a lot of controversy among people who study the so-called Holocaust. There’s a misperception that Hitler had a position to kill all the Jews. It’s all a fraud. Six million people… it didn’t occur.”

In 2005, at a radical conference hosted by a group called St. Joseph’s Forum, Bersaw added that “the perpetual enemy of Christ is the Jewish nation” and said Jews should be dealt with using “blood and terror if it’s required.”

Today, Douglas Bersaw is Richmond’s town moderator.

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