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Omni Christian Book Club [omnicbc.com]

Ran across this site while researching a name. It's more than a bit curious. The homepage states:

The author list is what first caught my eye, since it includes such controversial characters as Fathers Charles Coughlin and Leonard Feeney, SJ, not exactly mainstream religious authors.

It also offers a variety of other "literature", using the term generously in many instances. Some is very conservative or traditional Catholic material (even including some Benziger Brothers parochial school texts from my elementary school era :rolleyes: and even earlier ), much anti-Semitic writing (including some by Hilare Belloc, Charles Lindbergh, and Henry Ford), some anti-Catholic material (Michael Dimond, for instance), and anti-Masonic texts (Dr. Cathy Burns).

While it's not a place that I'd recommend supporting, it is a useful resource for anyone with a historical bent who is interested in reprints of material by folks like Coughlin or Feeney, who can be both difficult to find and expensive on the used book market. If you do go to explore it, be advised that searching the author list requires that you abandon logical thought. It's alphabetic, but by either the author's first name or his/her title (Rev., Father, Dr., etc.) - not by surname

Many years,

Neil

Dear Neil- I ran across Omni years ago; a very strange outfit. I believe, if I am not mistaken, that the same folks also have a more moderate business, which publishes more "mainstream" traditional Roman Catholic books.
I do take exception to your listing Belloc in the same category as Coughlin, Lindbergh, and Ford. Though by modern standards Belloc would, I suppose, be considered anti-Semitic, his was of a far different sort.
It is hard to view the attitudes of the 30s apart from the culmination of anti-Jewish bigotry in the Holocaust. But not to make distinctions between hatefulness and more benign attitudes would be a mistake. It would be like if in the future there was a mass slaughter of Hispanic immigrants. It would be hard to look back at, say, Pat Buchanan's anti-immigration rhetoric without seeing it as a prelude to the Mexican holocaust. Yet who thinks that Buchanan favors this sort of thing? Belloc was horrified by Nazism, whatever his attitudes toward "the Jews".