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.....and just what the hell is a "Catholic identity publication"?"
That's interesting. At least one priest asked the same thing about the trend, disagreed with it, and proceded to encourage personal spiritual beliefs over "identity." The following is an article in a more obvious example of such a publication--an article that I disagree with very much. There are many others out there like it.
THE MYSTERY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN HISTORY
By Rev. Frs. Michael Crowdy & Kenneth Novak
Originally printed in the April 1997 issue of
The Angelus magazine.
http://www.sspx.org/against_the_sound_bites/mystery_of_the_jews.htm