Australian priest, Fr Dennis Carroll, has done the right thing.

The rector of St Carthage Cathedral, Lismore, northern NSW, has censured and cut parish links with a local pro-life group over alleged anti-Jewish views expressed on its website.

He published this notice in his parish bulletin on 19 November.

Very Important Notice

Dear Parishioners,

I take this extraordinary measure of announcing a

VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE.

Parishioners are to note that the group "Apostles For Life" has lost my support and no longer has any status as a parish group. The group is discontinued.

The Leadership's publication still claims that the group meets here at St Carthage's Parish Centre. This is untrue and they have been asked to remove this misinformation from their website.

Parishioners should be wary of the anti Jewish views expressed in Apostle's (sic) for life website.

Fr. Dennis Carroll

The anti Jewish views 'included a linked article by anti-Semitic writer Joanna Francis, which says abortion-on-demand "for American Jews signified the beginning of their Messianic age, wherein they could now freely practice genocide against their ancient enemies, the Christians, with impunity".'

And for those who suspect that anti-Semites are basically crazy people, this may confirm your suspicions.

In other articles, Ms Francis has also claimed Pope Benedict XVI was a Zionist double agent and that Israeli snipers were killing US soldiers in Iraq.

Apostles for Life is run by Angela Martello and her husband Nadir.

The website is run by Ms Martello and includes a link to her husband's website, called Shedding Light, which includes more of Ms Francis' articles, links to anti-Semitic websites, including Holocaust denier Michael Hoffman, and Mr Martello's writings, the Star says.

Anti-Semitic incidents are on the rise in Australia - we need more like Fr Dennis Carroll, who recognise this evil and stand up to it.