Really? REALLY?!! Is THIS the Roman Catholic Church of the 21st Century?

"There is of course so much more that went into this decision [conversion of Catholicism] and that I plan to share in the future. But for now, praise be to God for His gentle, but relentless guiding of my heart toward Truth." 

"The change for Owens comes amid shifting sands in her professional life, including an acrimonious exit from The Daily Wire in March following statements she made and supported that were seen as antisemitic."

"Owens has lately made a decided shift toward more open support of Christianity, taking "Christ is King" as a mantra in many of her frequent online postings — often in support of ideas and policies seen as Christian nationalist and anti-Jewish."

"She began using the phrase online in November 2023, when she first came under fire from the well-known Jewish-American conservative and Daily Wire cofounder Ben Shapiro, who called Owens' support for antisemitic tropes and criticism of Israel’s alleged Gaza genocide "disgraceful."

Nate Tinner-Williams, National Catholic Reporter 

Candace Owens standing beside Oratorian priest Fr. Julian Large at the Brompton Oratory in London   Crisis Magazine

 

"[She is] a conspiracy-theory propagandist whose most fevered rants are antisemitic in both tone and content."

"[Antisemitism is] a grave sin as well as a social cancer. [Converts baptized or received into full communion must affirm the teachings of the Second Vatican Council's 1954 declaration Nostra Aetate, which explicitly condemns] hatred, persecutions [and] displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone."

"What kind of catechesis takes place at the Oratory once led by the great hymnist, Father Frederick Faber?

For Candace Owens is a conspiracy-theory propagandist whose most fevered rants are antisemitic in both tone and content. She has indulged in various forms of Holocaust denial; propagated the canard that Jews were responsible for the Atlantic slave trade; and promoted a thoroughly discredited 19^th-century book, The Talmudic Jew, which claims that the Talmud is a secret code for a Jewish takeover of the world—which would be quite a feat for .02% of the global population."

George Weigel, Catholic theologian, The Catholic World Report  

No sooner was this viral vector of Jew-hate accepted into the Roman Catholic Church, than an invitation was extended for her to appear alongside other right-wing Catholic 'personalities' known as vocal critics of Pope Francis, as a listed speaker at an upcoming "Catholic Identity Conference". Candace Owens who has proudly presented herself as a strident virago of pure, unadulterated hate -- as a throwback to the Middle Ages when Jews were charged with Deicide and considered practitioners of demonization whose purpose on Earth was to dominate decent Christians, when blood libels of Christian infants' blood used to make Passover flatbread proliferated, fuelling pogroms -- finds herself comfortable in the bosom of the Church.

 

Theologically, formally, the Catholic Church has long forsworn its hostility to Israel and its thousands of years of Jewish persecution. On the other hand the inheritance of Jew-hatred still dominates within segments of the Church and among many of its adherents. Catholic Ireland of today resonates with the indoctrination of generation after generation of the faithful who drank the poisoned cup of Jew-hate and find it now nigh-impossible to reject that evil pathology that thrives to the present day. Memories of the Spanish Inquisition resonate today in Spain with its government's befouling of Israel in claims of 'genocide' in Gaza.

 

The sacrament of Confirmation, a traditional Latin rite that took place in April 2026 consolidated Candace Owens' sacrament of Baptism at London's Brompton Oratory, in 2024. She is now the daughter of the Catholic Church, 'gone home', as she puts it. Her sentiments are not, perforce, viewed as radical and 'unChristian', they have an honoured place in the Church, sanctified by enduring custom no matter the Nostra Aetate. This popular public figure now has a pulpit in the Church to complement her YouTube channel where she spouts her venom to an appreciative audience.

 

Can one now anticipate that others of her celebrity ilk such as Tucker Carlson, Dan Bilzerian, Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker will also be inspired to find God, and turn to the Catholic Church for the comfort of full communion? Do they really need to broaden their pulpit? Or do they somehow long for the loving arms of an hand-me-down religion that emanated from the original Judeo-faith teachings of a Mediterranean ethnic group of ancient heritage spurned by those who adore a Jewish sage and cherish the second-hand ethical morality of those they despise?  

Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV,

You are the Bishop of Rome, the successor of Peter, and the spiritual father of over a billion Catholics worldwide. But you are also something new in the long history of the papacy: an American Pope. That fact carries immense symbolic weight, and with it an immense moral obligation and a spiritual calling of global significance.

We must be honest, Your Holiness. The Catholic Church has not always met this test. During the Holocaust, while Jews were deported from Rome’s ghetto just yards from the Vatican walls, Pope Pius XII remained largely silent.² Trains departed for Auschwitz. Men, women, and children were led to slaughter. More than 1300 Roman Jews were incarcerated at a military camp for two days in October, 1943 just two blocks from the Vatican. Pope Pius summoned the German Ambassador Ernst von Weizsäcker and demanded the release, not of the 1000 Jews but only of the 250 who had been baptized into Catholicism. The rest were sent by cattle car to Auschwitz in an eight-day Germany where nearly all were immediately gassed. Some eight Jews survived. 

And though he surely knew, the Pope’s voice never rang out with the clarity that history demanded.

Owens is one of America’s most visible and vile media personalities. She claims Catholic identity — proudly and repeatedly. She has described herself as “a proud Catholic” in interviews, insisted she is speaking from a “Catholic worldview,” and has even told critics, “You cannot cancel me — I stand with the Church.”⁴ On podcasts and public appearances, she invokes Catholicism as the foundation of her values, presenting her rhetoric as authentically Catholic.

This is what makes her venom doubly dangerous. She does not speak merely as a commentator. She speaks as a Catholic. Every time she minimizes Hitler, every time she casts doubt on the Holocaust, every time she rails against Jews or Israel, she does so under the mantle of Catholic identity. To millions of listeners, the message is clear: this is what Catholics believe.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, A Plea to Pope Leo: Condemn the Antisemitism of Candace Owens  

Candace Owens on set of “Candace”. (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images)

 

"[Her allegations of a] hidden Jewish hand, supposedly instructed by millenia-old Jewish texts, that somehow connects psychiatry, pornography, Hollywood, the publishing industry [and] the Atlantic slave trade [exemplify her defamatory allegations]."

"They will learn any language, become what they have to become, move wherever they need to move. And wherever they go, they bring their filth with them."

Anti-Defamation League on Candace Owens as purveyor of rampant antisemitism

 

"Ms. Owens frequently hides behind the guise of “courageous inquiry” and “anti-establishment” rhetoric. However, by using her Catholic identity as a shield for antisemitic tropes, she is not merely engaging in debate; she is committing calumny — the grave sin of spreading malicious lies to destroy the reputation of an entire people."

"Her rhetoric has crossed a line from political commentary into the realm of the grotesque. By labeling the State of Israel “demonic,” she echoes the most dangerous spiritual libels of the past. Even more chilling is her move to minimize the horrific Mengele experiments of the Holocaust, treating the systematic torture of Jews as a subject for “edgy” skepticism. Perhaps most egregious is her flirtation with the “Blood Libel,” the baseless and bloody medieval myth that Jews consume the blood of Christians."

"The Catholic Church, through the landmark Vatican II document Nostra Aetate, definitively broke with the “teaching of contempt.” It affirmed that the Jewish people are the “elder brothers” and that any form of antisemitism is a sin against God Himself. For a layperson to publicly defy this teaching while claiming to represent “authentic” Catholicism is a perversion of the faith."

David Nekrutman, Executive Director, The Isaiah Projects