IDAHO
CDA Press
Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2015
DAVID COLE/Staff Writer
COEUR d’ALENE — The Southern Poverty Law Center said the Immaculate Conception Church in Post Falls is part of a breakaway and anti-Semitic sect of Catholic church called the Society of Saint Pius X.
The Immaculate Conception Church, at 614 E. Fifth Ave., was where alleged child rapist Kevin G. Sloniker served as a youth camp counselor. Sloniker, 30, of Coeur d’Alene, is a long-haul truck driver, and some of the alleged abuse took place when boys traveled with him.
Court documents said Sloniker met and befriended some boys through the youth camps.
Bill Morlin, a renowned investigative reporter based in Spokane, wrote in a blog post on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website on Oct. 30 that said Sloniker was “affiliated with a hard-core, anti-Semitic church.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, headquartered in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry. One of its founders, Morris Dees, successfully battled the Aryan Nations.
The Society of Saint Pius X, or SSPX, “was formed in a 1970 breakaway from the Roman Catholic Church over reforms instituted when the Second Vatican Council condemned ‘all hatreds, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism leveled at any time or from any source against the Jews,'” Morlin wrote. “SSPX leaders contend the reforms were the result of a ‘Masonic plot backed by the Jews.’
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