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Peninnah Bloom
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Candace Owens, George Farmer, and the Turn Against the Jews
Candace Owens’ sharp pivot toward hostility against Jews has puzzled many observers. Once a Protestant with Reformed leanings, Owens’ rhetoric took a noticeable turn after her 2019 marriage to British political figure George Farmer. According to Rabbi Tovia Singer, the explanation lies not in her politics but in her husband’s religion.
In a recent YouTube talk, Rabbi Singer explained:
“Her husband … is from an iteration of Catholicism that rejects the Second Vatican Council. Her husband … belongs to a version of Catholicism like the Mel Gibson type where they hold that the last Pope, the real last Pope, is Pius XII … She [Owens] used to be a Protestant … She converts to her husband’s Catholicism.”
This describes a fringe Catholic faction known as sedevacantism.
What is Sedevacantism?
The word means literally “the seat is vacant.” Sedevacantists reject the legitimacy of every pope after Pius XII (who died in 1958), claiming the Church went into apostasy with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65).
Vatican II was revolutionary in Catholic-Jewish relations. Its declaration Nostra Aetate explicitly repudiated the centuries-old charge that Jews were collectively guilty for the death of Christ. It called Jews “beloved by God,” affirmed their covenant, and urged Catholics to build respect and dialogue with Judaism.
Sedevacantists reject all of this. For them, Vatican II was heresy, and the modern papacy illegitimate. In practice, this means they return to pre–Vatican II attitudes: Jews are seen as blind to Christ, in need of conversion, and often framed as hostile to Christianity itself.
The Owens-Farmer Shift
Owens’ husband George Farmer comes from this world. Described by Singer as “super-Catholic,” Farmer is said to hold that Pius XII was the last legitimate pope and that the papal seat has been vacant since.
When Owens married him, she converted. Her subsequent public turn — increasingly antagonistic toward Jews, skeptical of Israel, and aligned with conspiracy-tinged narratives — reflects this theological repositioning.
This is not merely a stylistic change, nor just politics. It is rooted in the anti-Jewish theology of a hardline Catholic faction.
Why It Matters
The story of Candace Owens’ change is a case study in how theology still shapes politics in unexpected ways. Fringe Catholic sects like sedevacantism remain small, but their influence can extend through public figures with massive platforms.
By tracing her shift through the lens of Rabbi Singer’s observation, we see the through-line: a move from mainstream Protestantism into a sect that rejects Vatican II and its reconciliation with Jews, and, unsurprisingly, the adoption of rhetoric steeped in that worldview.
Owens’ hostility, then, is not random. It is theological. And it helps explain why her once-vibrant public persona has become increasingly associated with hostility toward the Jewish people.
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One small yet important observation I get from this is we can see that prior to the ‘Second Vatican Council’ of the early part of the 1960s, that Catholic Teaching was very Anti-Semitic and therefore would have had little problem collaborating with Hitler’s Nazis.
Candace Owens Husband advocates for that form of Catholicism and we see this hateful spirit being revived in Candace Owens.
It is the spirit of Antichrist and was behind the Holocaust.
Tim Wikiriwhi
Christian Libertarian.