Christian Eschatology Quotes
This hatemonger’s writing against the Freemasons and the Jews where used by the American Catholic demagogue, Father Coghlen as a model. In Ireland, he could not obtain many supporters for his hateful and absurd ideas. His own Archbishop John Charles McQuaid said him: “He is not regarded as a man of balanced judgment.” Ireland was the first country to recognize the rights of minority faiths such as Judaism as equal with the majority faith in its constitution, but Fahey tried to organize a movement to change the constitution but could find few followers. Fahey was far less influential in Ireland than he was through Cather Coghlen in America.
Olivi was a brilliant scholar who ran afoul of the religious authorities on several occasions. He was accused of being a heretic for his writings, but was exonerated after intensive trials and debates. In this quotation, he attributed the religious error of Jews and others, not to the anti-Christ, human venality, or even fault of character, but from a difference in human perspective. He was a pioneering original thinker, who while not well appreciated in his lifetime, had a significant cult following including several cardinals of The Church that arose after his death. However, other conservative forces then decided that he was a heretic after all. They burned his writings and destroyed his tomb. Today, there is a street in France named for him.
