19 Facts About Edward Flannery

Edward H Flannery was an American priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, and the author of The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism, first published in 1965.

Edward Flannery spoke in hundreds of churches, synagogues, and other settings to promote an understanding of the work of the Second Vatican Council and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops concerning the Church's bond with the Jewish People.

Edward Flannery was the President of the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel, and a consultant to Secretariat of Inter-religious Affairs.

Edward Flannery was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to John Edward Flannery, a police officer, and Elizabeth.

Edward Flannery studied at St Charles College in Catonsville, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree at St Sulpice Seminary near Paris.

Edward Flannery then earned his master's degree at Catholic University in Washington, DC.

In 1967, Edward Flannery began nine years as the first director of Catholic-Jewish Relations at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Edward Flannery became Associate Director of the Institute of Judeo-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University and Director of the Continuing Education of the Clergy for the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island.

Edward Flannery devoted his life to the reconciliation of Christians and Jews and the study of antisemitism.

Edward Flannery covers Pagan antisemitism in the ancient world; the struggles between Judaism and the early church; Christian antisemitism in the Middle Ages in the various countries of Europe; the age of the ghetto; the rise of scapegoat antisemitism in the modern, post-religious world associated with Nazi paganism and the Holocaust; as well as antisemitism in America.

In relation to the Holocaust, Edward Flannery illustrated the sympathies for the Nazi regime and Final Solution expressed by prominent Arab figures at the time, such as the close confidant of Adolf Hitler, Haj Amin al-Husseini.

Edward Flannery uses anti-Semitism as a safety valve for this hostility and is really trying to strike out at Christ.

Edward Flannery was awarded honorary doctorates from several institutions, including Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, and Seton Hall University.

Edward Flannery received the prestigious Nicholas and Hedy Munk International Brotherhood Award of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and many other signs of esteem from Christian and Jewish Organizations.

Edward Flannery believed the vast majority of even well-educated Christians have been ignorant of what has happened to the Jews throughout history and the culpable involvement of the Church.

Edward Flannery was one of the 53 authors to respond to Simon Wiesenthal's book The Sunflower.

Edward Flannery is a person of God, sharing his spirituality with all of us.

Edward Flannery shattered negative caricatures and stereotypes that had existed for centuries.

Father Edward Flannery was an unrelenting foe of all forms of anti-Semitism and was a strong supporter of the State of Israel.