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Traditionalist Catholic Candace Owens blamed for “unprecedented surge in ‘Christ is King’ chatter”

The celebrity clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson has coauthored a sensational report accusing Catholic antisemites of exploiting the slogan “Christ Is King” to further their campaign of hatred against Jews.

The 20-page report published last Thursday, “Thy Name in Vain: How Online Extremists Hijacked ‘Christ is King,’” is the collaborative effort of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu researchers under the aegis of Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute. It was released three days after the Philos Catholic project hosted eminent Catholic and Jewish speakers at a conference on Catholic antisemitism to combat the alarming surge in Jew-hatred, particularly by social media influencers on the “Catholic right,” The Stream reported.

Peterson and his team found that “extremist figures” including “Nazis, Nazi sympathizers and Muslim Masculinity influencers” had “systematically co-opted” the Catholic slogan proclaiming the kingship of Christ, “with mentions of the phrase on X alone increasing more than fivefold between 2021 and 2024.”

The report underlined the irony of using “Christ is King” as an antisemitic trope, since the slogan became popular after Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King in 1925 as a challenge against Nazi, Fascist, and Bolshevik totalitarianism.

“Pius XI clearly intended the feast of Christ the King to be a counterblast to what he refers to in the decree as ‘the plague of secularism’’ manifest in these ominous, neo-pagan movements,” said former University of Cambridge chaplain Fr. Alban McCoy.

“Christ Is King” Used as White Supremacist Mantra

The report named top Catholic influencers such as Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, PrayTheRosary12, and Trad West (who advances “theocratic nationalism” and “nostalgic Crusader revivalism”), as well as Muslim masculinity influencer Sneako, Holocaust denier Jake Shields, and misogynist Andrew Tate, whom Owens has been unapologetically supported.

According to the report,

The top post, authored by Candace Owens, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist with a 6.1 million-strong following, appended #ChristIsKing to a conspiracy theory involving French Prime Minister Macron. Owens’s use of the phrase appeared to serve as both an engagement tactic and a veneer of religious justification for her conspiratorial claims.

In 2024, more than 50% of all engagements around ‘Christ is King’ posts were driven by extremists and fringe influencers. Posts by Nick Fuentes, Sneako, and Andrew Tate achieved over 13.6 million views and more than 100,000 engagements during Easter 2024 alone.

The authors accused Fuentes and his followers of amplifying “Christ is King” as a “white supremacist mantra publicizing their antisemitic beliefs,” while explaining that Posobiec’s use of the phrase was “semantically neutral and devoid of bigotry” and “likely represented a historic, normative use of the Christian phrase” as did Bishop Joseph Strickland’s.

Conversely, Owens’s and Shields’s use of the phrase “marks a stark departure from its original religious meaning,” the report states. The authors blame Owens, a convert to traditionalist Catholicism, for “the unprecedented surge in ‘Christ is King’ chatter following Palm Sunday 2024.”

Leveraging the phrase to “voice grievances against Jewish and pro-Israel figures she blamed for her departure from The Daily Wire,” Owens’s early posts “injected ‘Christ is King’ with explicit antisemitic tropes, including allegations of covert global control and the perpetuation of ancient blood libel myths.”

Faithful Catholics Push Back Against Antisemitism

Meanwhile, faithful Catholics are pushing back against the sudden resurgence of Jew-hatred among their fellow religionists in the light of post-Vatican II magisterial teaching.

“These antisemitic Catholics perversely contradict their own Church’s Nostra Aetate which declared that ‘God holds the Jews most dear’ and that the Church ‘draws sustenance from the root of that well-cultivated olive tree’ that is Israel,” Fr. Gerald McDermott, an Anglican priest and author of Israel Matters: Why Christians Must Think Differently about the People and the Land, told The Stream.

“The Apostle Paul was willing to be cut off from Christ for the sake of his fellow Jews (Romans 9:3). No doubt he is ashamed of Christians who shout ‘Christ the King’ in order to abuse Jews,” he added. “They show that they serve a different Christ from the Jewish Jesus who affirmed the Chosenness of the Jewish people in His ratification of every word of Torah in Matthew 5:17-19.”

Asked about the rise of Jew-hating Catholics, Philos Catholic Director Simone Rizkallah, responded: “To Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, E. Michael Jones, and others who claim to represent the ‘Catholic right’ while peddling antisemitism, I would say this: Your rhetoric is not only morally reprehensible but also fundamentally opposed to authentic Catholic teaching.”

Rizkallah, a first-generation American of Egyptian-Armenian descent, added: “The obvious contradiction in Catholic antisemitism is that Jesus Himself was a Jew, and the New Testament affirms the enduring nature of God’s covenants with Israel.”

Philos Catholic has launched the Coalition of Catholics against Antisemitism to combat the “resurgent hatred of the Jewish people today,” labelling antisemitism as “a spiritual evil.” At last week’s conference, Catholic holocaust historian Dr. Richard Crane debunked the false distinction between anti-Judaism and antisemitism. Following the Holocaust, the Catholic Church apologized for being against Judaism as a religion but continued to maintain that the Catholic Church had not been against Jews as a people.

The Philos Catholic website cites Popes Pius XI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis — all unequivocally condemning “Catholic antisemitism” as an oxymoron.

In an article for the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal published March 11, Christopher Rufo, a practicing Catholic and author of America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything, explained how antisemitic ideologies are “lucrative in the digital economy.”

“The Internet rewards scandal, shock, and virality, and conspiracy theories enjoy burgeoning market demand,” he wrote in an article titled “The Anti-Semitic Influencer Problem.” “Candace Owens has never been more popular, turning each outrage and accusation into new views, followers, subscribers, and revenues.”

Writing in the Free Press journal last week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, observed:

The Church’s stance on antisemitism is unequivocal. Our Savior was a faithful Jew killed by the Roman occupiers of Judea. He died for the sins of all mankind. According to our faith, Jesus brought about a New Covenant that exists side-by-side with the Old Covenant between God and the Jewish people. As Pope Saint John Paul II often observed, “God’s covenant with the Jews is unbreakable.”

During Lent 2024, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said it would require a pastoral note on antisemitism to be placed in worship aids and pew missals ahead of all Good Friday passion narratives reminding worshippers that “Jesus, his mother Mary, and the apostles all were Jewish.”

The bishops warned that “the crimes during the Passion of Christ cannot be attributed, in either preaching or catechesis, indiscriminately to all Jews of that time, nor to Jews today” and “the Jewish people should not be referred to as though rejected or cursed, as if this view followed from Scripture.”

The USCCB has also published a 60-page Catholic edition of a comprehensive glossary of antisemitic terms, phrases, conspiracies, cartoons, themes, and memes.

In August 2024, Owens’s father-in-law, Lord Michael Farmer, a committed Christian who is a member of the House of Lords, distanced himself from his daughter-in-law’s claim that modern-day Israel was founded by the Rothschilds to be a safe haven for pedophiles.

Farmer, an outspoken advocate of persecuted Christians, wrote: “Jesus Christ is God’s Son. He came into space and time as a Jewish man, He fulfilled Jewish law, His mother was Jewish, and His closest followers were ordinary Jewish men and women. He came to save us from the consequences of our rebellion.”

Traditionalist Influencers Attack Rutgers Report

Multiple traditionalist Catholic influencers and media have hit back against the report.

“Remember when the devil attacked Christ our Lord during His 40 days in the desert? Same strategy,” Catholic podcaster Taylor Marshall tweeted in response to a post from Owens. “The affirmation ‘Christ is King’ is anti-Talmudic. That’s why they’re angry,” he added, clarifying that the “they” referred to “Jews, Evangelical Dispensationalists, and Zionists.”

In video posted on X, Owens claimed that the study was “funded by Jews to make Christians war with one another during the Lenten season.”

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral. This article has been cross-posted with the author’s permission from The Stream.

Comments

  1. “Sneako” is an appropriate name for a stealth Muslim polemicist culturally misappropriating the theme of “Christ is King.” Muslims do not identify their “Issa” as being king of the Jews much less social king of all of humanity. In fact Muhammad is reported as saying that the title “King of Kings” was one of the titles most hated by the god in whose name he claimed to be prophesying. Sufficient proof that “Allah” cannot be equate with “Malchai HaMlachim,” the G-d of the Old Testament.

    • Hi SKA thank you for your contribution. But can youtranslate Malchai HaMlachim for me?
      I guess Malchai is someting like “King”?
      with thanks

      • Melech is “King.” The Alenu prayer refers to God as “Melech Malchai HaMlachim” which is usually translated “King of Kings” but a more accurate translation is actually “King of Kings of (the) Kings.”

  2. Actually ,Pope Pious XII was very anti- Jewish . The most common term is ”anti-semitic.”

    Once some years past I was talking with a young highly educated Jewish woman and told her that ” Even though and wasn’t written about much and therefore publicized that much by most historians but enough information has gotten out that during the time of Nazi Germany a large number of Jesuit priests that collaborated with Hitler’s SS against the Jews to send them to the death camps.” This was because Pope Pious XII was Jesuit Pope who hated the Jews.

    She answered by replying, “That the Jesuits have always had a long history of being anti-Semitic.”

    Since World War II the Roman Catholic Church had been very busy covering up the Jesuits involvement with Hitler’s SS, that might be one of the reasons that the Vatican doesn’t investigative journalists or anyone else into it’s library. If there was fully disclosed in this subject is would be a terrible embarrassment to the higher up clerics of the Roman Catholic Church.

    A good number of purists and nuns did take a terrible risk to save the lives of many Jew, but they did so out of their own conscience and not because of any instructions of Pope Pius XII.

    One source for this claim is the well researched book entitled THE SECRET OF THE JESUITS by Chick Publications in Ontario California . Also on an internet search, there are some other books that may be found exposing disturbing but true subject.

    • Pope Pius XII was NOT a Jesuit. Look it up and do your homework before you post.

      • OK . still Pope Pious XII very supportive of Hitler, and that many Jesuits also took and sinister part in Hitler’s Nazi regime

        • Walter, Pope Francis is the first Jesuit pope.

          And while many have criticized Pope Pious XII for not speaking out more openly against the Holocaust, he was actually able to save more Jews by mostly keeping quiet.

      • The Roman Catholic Church has its Vatican library closed to public , and even to professional researchers. One of the reason for this is that further information might be come upon about Pope Pious XII involvement and support of Hitler, and also that many priests of Church of Rome also played a part in Hitler regime.

        Such information being discovered and then becoming known to the public would ,naturally, be a terrible embarrassment to the higher clerics of the Roman Catholic Church.

    • Walter, you might see Pius XII differently if you search “Eugenio Zolli”, Chief Rabbi in Rome (1940–1945), or, better yet, read his Autobiography, “Before the Dawn: Autobiographical Reflections by Eugenio Zolli, Former Chief Rabbi of Rome”.

      Keys

  3. Here is one book that explains Hitler’s Pope.
    The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism Hardcover – September 18, 2001
    by David I. Kertzer (Author)

    A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible.

    Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself called for a clear-eyed historical investigation into any possible link be-tween the Church and the Holocaust. An important sign of his commitment was the recent decision to allow the distinguished historian David I. Kertzer, a specialist in Italian history, to be one of the first scholars given access to long-sealed Vatican archives.

    The result is a book filled with shocking revelations. It traces the Vatican’s role in the development of modern anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Kertzer shows why all the recent attention given to Pope Pius XII’s failure to publicly protest the slaughter of Europe’s Jews in the war misses a far more important point. What made the Holocaust possible was groundwork laid over a period of decades. In this campaign of demonization of the Jews—identifying them as traitors to their countries, enemies of all that was good, relentlessly pursuing world domination—the Vatican itself played a key role, as is shown here for the first time.

    Despite its focus, this is not an anti-Catholic book. It seeks a balanced judgment and an understanding of the historical forces that led the Church along the path it took.

    Inevitably controversial, written with devastating clarity and dispassionate authority, The Popes Against
    the Jews is a book of the greatest importance.

    • Just a few years ago I met some people who really believe that the reason that the Roman Catholic Church refuses to open the Vatican Library to the public, and even professional investigators is because, they actually think, that it’s contains proof that extraterrestrials are living in all the among us ,disguised as humans, in all the the countries of the world .
      The a absurd , bizarre and an outright silly idea.

      The actual reason for the closed Vatican Library is much more “down to earth.” Meaning the it would be a terrible embarrassment to all the higher up clerics Bishops , arch -Bishops and Cardinals and many others in high power in the Roman Catholic Church if the public discovered all of Pope Pious XII suppose for Hitler along with many other priests and bishops activities giving support to Hitler’s regime..

    • Just a few years ago I met some people who really believe that the reason that the Roman Catholic Church refuses to open the Vatican Library to the public, and even professional investigators is because, they actually think, that it’s contains proof that extraterrestrials are living in all the among us ,disguised as humans, in all the the countries of the world .
      The a absurd , bizarre and an outright silly idea.

      The actual reason for the closed Vatican Library is much more “down to earth.” Meaning the it would be a terrible embarrassment to all the higher up clerics Bishops , arch -Bishops and Cardinals and many others in high power in the Roman Catholic Church if the public discovered all of Pope Pious XII suppose for Hitler along with many other priests and bishops activities giving support to Hitler’s regime..

  4. Here is one book that explains Hitler’s Pope.
    The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism Hardcover – September 18, 2001
    by David I. Kertzer (Author)

    A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible.

    Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself called for a clear-eyed historical investigation into any possible link be-tween the Church and the Holocaust. An important sign of his commitment was the recent decision to allow the distinguished historian David I. Kertzer, a specialist in Italian history, to be one of the first scholars given access to long-sealed Vatican archives.

    The result is a book filled with shocking revelations. It traces the Vatican’s role in the development of modern anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Kertzer shows why all the recent attention given to Pope Pius XII’s failure to publicly protest the slaughter of Europe’s Jews in the war misses a far more important point. What made the Holocaust possible was groundwork laid over a period of decades. In this campaign of demonization of the Jews—identifying them as traitors to their countries, enemies of all that was good, relentlessly pursuing world domination—the Vatican itself played a key role, as is shown here for the first time.

    Despite its focus, this is not an anti-Catholic book. It seeks a balanced judgment and an understanding of the historical forces that led the Church along the path it took.

    Inevitably controversial, written with devastating clarity and dispassionate authority, The Popes Against
    the Jews is a book of the greatest importance.

  5. “The Philos Catholic website cites Popes Pius XI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis — all unequivocally condemning “Catholic antisemitism” as an oxymoron.”

    The sentence above is from this article

    Can someone explain why Francis is included in this list. I have only seen him as king of Hamas, fighting and accusing Israel I did not write this to offend anyone, but to me it seems very clear how he portrays himself with eg the palestinian flag/ scarf around his neck etc etc

  6. False, Walter. Pius XII was not anti-Semitic. The absolute worst that even John Cornwell, who wrote the deeply flawed “Hitler’s Pope,” published in 1999, could find about Pius respecting any purported Jew hatred was that he stated that many prominent early Marxists were Jewish. THIS IS IT. Aside from the fact that this statement by Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pius XII, was completely true, this is the WORST anyone has been able to find about Pius respecting what he averred about Jews.

    But, in fact, Pius saved more Jews than any other person in history, Jewish or non-Jewish. The conservative estimate is around 800,000. Working behind the scenes he instructed people like Angelo Roncalli, the future John XXIII, to save Jews in huge numbers.

    I am not religious in the least. I am a devout agnostic and though admiring the Judeo-Christian ethic I am quite dubious about its theological contentions and I see a universe indifferent to the human condition, contra so many religions.

    But I also try to be as objective as one can be, elusive as this goal is, and I state here that accusing Pius XII of some kind of rank anti-Semitism is a calumny of the first order. Quite the contrary actually considering that Pius saved more Jews from the Nazis than any other single person during the WWII Era. No one else comes close to Pius in this respect. For the record.

  7. No one commenting on Candace Owens? I suppose her drama is self evident. I wondered when the Catholic Church was going to finally comment. When I see an adult woman suddenly flip to Muslim apologist as a professing Christian endorsing indicted sex trafficker Tate plus accusing Mossad of conspiracy theories but says nothing about the vile Qatar lobby paying bribes I’d think she found a new man. I have no idea how she has become so irrational. And this reprimand from the Catholic Church for her public targeting of Macron will now open the floodgates so France can sue Candace and her father in law into oblivion. Free speech isn’t free.

  8. Candace Owens and Pope Francis are two peas in a pod. Both are a disgrace to Catholicism and to the human race. Their antisemitism bleeds from their pores. It is a shame both have such a huge presence on social media, infusing the weak minds of the undereducated with hate.

  9. I knew obviously about Owens and Fuentes and Tate but I didn’t know about Posobiec. What has he said and done that’s antisemetic?

  10. I used to like Candace Owens.

    Used to.

    Did something recently change in her, or was she always an anti-Semite?

  11. The points in this piece are mostly well intended, but choose your enemies wisely.

    • I agree. Just because some people may (note “may”) be using the phrase “Christ is King” for ill-intent, doesn’t mean all are. We need to fight islam, and be careful of not in-fighting. I had asked in the comments above for citations to something recorded that Candace Owens said, or something she wrote, that was anti-Semitic, as I’d like to see it. I would like to see if I can confirm or deny this based on sources. So far, nothing has come to me. Thus, I consider it a possible rumor at this point.

    • Murderous antisemites *are* our enemies–well, for most of us here, certainly.

  12. Explosive Report Targets Catholic Antisemites
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    Antisemitism is appalling wherever it is found.

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