In 1928, the Holy Office abolished Amici Israel after judging its program contrary to the sense of the Church, the Fathers, and the sacred liturgy. What did Cum Supremae say regarding the Catholic relationship with the Jews and on the Jewish Question itself? Watch this video to find out.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Cold Open
0:05 – INTRODUCTION
1:50 – PART 1: A Movement of Prayer
3:53 – PART 2: The Petition and the Prayer
6:42 – PART 3: Rome’s Response
9:41 – PART 4: Reading the Decree
11:19 – PART 5: What Rome Actually Taught
14:39 – PART 6: The Prayer That Remained, and the Decree’s Legacy
17:36 – CONCLUSION
📖 SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO
Primary Source
Scripture (Douay-Rheims)
Romans 11:25, 11:28 — https://www.drbo.org/chapter/52011.htm
Matthew 27:25 — https://www.drbo.org/chapter/47027.htm
Historical / Contemporary Commentary
Fr. Edward Cahill, S.J., Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement (1st ed. 1929; 2nd ed. 1930): https://archive.org/details/CahillEFr…
La Civiltà Cattolica, Fr. Enrico Rosa, S.J., “Il pericolo giudaico e gli ‘Amici d’Israele’,” vol. II, quaderno 1870 (May 1928), pp. 335–344 (no single stable URL found)
Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, memorandum of 7 March 1928, English translation quoted in Emma Fattorini, Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican (Polity Press, 2011), p. 109
Magisterial
Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate, no. 4 (1965): https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_c…
Pius XII, Maxima Redemptionis Nostrae Mysteria (1955 Holy Week reform): https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/co…
Sacred Congregation of Rites decree removing perfidis/perfidiam (1959): https://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/do…
Secondary Scholarship
Hubert Wolf, Pope and Devil: The Vatican’s Archives and the Third Reich (Harvard University Press, 2010) — on Marco Sales specifically, a book chapter is cited by reviewers at https://www.degruyterbrill.com/docume…, but I have not been able to independently load that page myself (405 error on my end)
David I. Kertzer, The Popes Against the Jews (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
Menahem Macina, L’Église à l’épreuve des Juifs: L’abolition d’Amici Israel (1926–1928) (2014)
Emma Fattorini, Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican: Pope Pius XI and the Speech That Was Never Made (Polity Press, 2011)
Mathijs Lamberigts, “Discontinuity in the Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church” (KU Leuven) — primary source, per reviewers, for the Congregation of Rites/Holy Office split, the consultors’ reasoning, membership figures, and the March 21/22/25 dates: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/f… — my own fetch tool has rejected this URL as robots-disallowed on every attempt across several rounds; everything sourced to it in this script comes from search-result snippets quoting it directly, not a full read on my end
Laurence Deffayet, on the decree as the first Roman text to explicitly condemn antisemitism: https://www.persee.fr/doc/efr_0223-50… — same situation, robots-disallowed when I’ve tried it; relayed by reviewers, not independently confirmed
Saint Augustine, witness-people argument, City of God XVIII.46: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120… (not fetched by me this round; a well-known reference)
📚 Full Adversus Judaeos Library: 👉 https://christtheking.info/catholic-r…
⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This video presents historical theological sources for educational purposes. The teaching documented is theological/doctrinal opposition, not racial hatred. Individual Jews can convert and be saved. Violence against Jews is condemned.
