Denis Fahey
| Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. | |
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| Born |
3 July 1883 Golden, County Tipperary, Ireland |
| Died | 21 January 1954 (aged 70) |
| Occupation | priest, philosopher, theologian |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Genre | Scholasticism, Social Catholicism |
| Subject | Christ the King, monetary reform, counterrevolution |
| Notable works | The Rulers of Russia, Money Manipulation and Social Order |
Father Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. (3 July 1883 – 21 January 1954) was an Irish Catholic priest. Fahey promoted the Catholic social teaching of Christ the King, and was involved in Irish politics through his organisation Maria Duce. Fahey firmly believed that "the world must conform to Our Divine Lord, not He to it", defending the Mystical Body of Christ without compromise. This often saw Fahey in conflict with systems which he viewed as promoting "naturalism" against Catholic order—particularly communism, freemasonry and rabbinic Judaism. The Southern Poverty Law Center claims he was in opposition to the Jews, citing his writing "every sane thinker must be an anti-Semite". The work itself actually condemns anti-Semitism as a form of racial hatred but nonetheless strongly attacks what Fahey terms "Jewish naturalism" and "Jewish opposition to the divine plan".
Born in Golden, County Tipperary he was educated at Rockwell College and at 17 entered the Holy Ghost Congregation to train to become one of the Holy Ghost Fathers. He was sent by the order to Orly in 1900 as a novice, not long after the government of René Waldeck-Rousseau had begun an anti-clerical drive in the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair. Although illness prevented him from completing his time in France, the episode was to influence his later ideas on relations between Church and State. As a youth Fahey had excelled at rugby union and he had played on the same team as Éamon de Valera for a time, cementing a lifelong association between the two.
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