In The Society of St. Pius X: Mired in Anti-Semitism an Overview it states
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is an international traditionalist Catholic organization which defines its mission as opposing innovation and modernity within the Catholic Church.
The SSPX has never defined its mission as opposing innovation and modernity within the Catholic Church. The SSPX rejects the interpretation of Vatican Council II according to the ADL. They affirm Ad Gentes 7 which says all Jews need to convert to go to Heaven and Nostra Aetate, which no where says that Judaism is a path to salvation or that Jews in general do not have to convert by accepting the New Covenant in Jesus Christ.
Although its main focus has always been the preservation of the Latin Mass as a viable form of worship, SSPX has promoted theological and conspiratorial anti-Semitism among its adherents.
Its main focus has been living and expressing the Catholic Faith which includes the Latin Mass. Its adherents have been critical of the Jewish Left (ADL, SPLC, ACLU etc) and those with a Zionist agenda among the Jews. They differentiate between Masonic-Communist Jews and Jews in general. ADL never makes this distinction.
In sermons, writings, Web sites and publications, SSPX representatives have charged contemporary Jews with deicide, have endorsed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and have claimed that there is factual basis for the Blood Libel. One of its bishops has also denied the Holocaust.They have never claimed that contemporary Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus. They differentiate between the Jews at the time of Jesus and present day Jews. ADL never differentiates.
SSPX representatives have been critical of Zionism. For them Zionism is not the same as Judaism at large. Jews themselves have been critical of ADL and Zionism in Israel.The SSPX bishops have not denied the Holocaust.
Even Bishop Richard Williamson admits the Holocaust happened. Only Bishop Williamson questions the figure of the number of Jews killed in gas chambers. Historians say millions of Jews were killed by malnutrition and sickness in the Holocaust.
Under the sub title History the ADL website states
The Society of St. Pius X was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) in reaction to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. These reforms included the substitution of a vernacular Mass for the traditional Latin Mass and a new emphasis on interfaith dialogue.
Most important to the priests of SSPX was the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, but SSPX also stood against other "modernist" trends, including the Church's ecumenical dialogue with non-Catholic groups, and specifically efforts to improve relations with the Jewish community.The SSPX opposes the ‘modernist trends’ of the Jewish Left and their Catholic supporters. So do Catholics who attend Mass in the vernacular.
In 1988 SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four priests as bishops without Vatican approval; he and the priests were consequently excommunicated by the Church. When Lefebvre died in 1991 the four priests, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta, continued to champion SSPX positions, along with a constellation of like-minded organizations and independent traditionalist Catholics. Bishop Bernard Fellay currently runs SSPX from its headquarters in Switzerland.
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued a directive that allowed the Latin (Tridentine) Mass to be celebrated in certain circumstances, thereby narrowing the theological distance between SSPX and the Vatican. In January 2009 the Vatican lifted the excommunication of the four SSPX bishops.
Under the sub heading Anti Semitism the ADL website states:
The Society of St. Pius X is mired in anti-Semitism, which it disseminates through its Web sites and publications. Jews are described in SSPX documents as being cursed by God for the sin of deicide.The world dominion and world empire is a reference to Zionism and is a charge made by conservative and orthodox Jews, against the ADL itself.
Jews are accused of being in control of world financial and cultural institutions and of plotting to create a "world empire" or obtain "world dominion."
In early February 2009, several articles that articulated positions about Jews were removed from SSPX US website. Bishop Williamson’s articles were also removed from the SSPX Canadian website. It is too early to say whether the removal of these articles reflects merely a cosmetic change in response to outside inquiry or a fundamental shift in SSPX teachings about Judaism.The SSPX teachings about Judaism are those of Vatican Council II and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
Ad Gentes 7 says all people need to enter the Catholic Church.( They include Jews).
Lumen Gentium 14 says Catholic Faith and Baptism are needed for all. The website holds that non Catholic religions are the ordinary way of salvation.( Judaism is not the ordinary way of salvation)
The Decree on Ecumenism ( UR ) 3, Vatican Council II: Catholic Church is the true faith. (The SSPX says the same)
The Catechism of the Catholic Church 845: God the Father wants all people to worship Him and to enter the Catholic Church. God the Father wants all people to be united into the Catholic Church.(extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Jews need to convert for salvation)
Notification, N.7, Fr. Jacques Dupuis S.J, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican Prefect: Cardinal Ratzinger: All people need to be oriented into the Catholic Church and to be a part of her.( Jews included)
The ADL website continues:
In their Own Words – Deicide and Theology of Anti-Semitism
"This curse [suffered by Jews throughout history for killing Jesus] is the punishment of blindness to the things of God and eternity, of deafness to the call of conscience and to the love of good and hatred of evil which is the basis of all moral life, of spiritual paralysis, of total preoccupation with an earthly kingdom."This is a belief even of Catholics who are not members of the SSPX and also of Christians at large.It is an interpretation of the Bible. Lumen Gentium 14,Vatican Council II refers to the blindness of the Jews and other educated non-Catholics. It states they are oriented to Hell.
-- The Angelus, March 2004 (Reposted on SSPX USA Web site)
"Judaism is inimical to all nations in general, and in a special manner to Christian nations…. The Jewish people, if it has not converted to Christianity, will, even if it does not wish to, seek to ruin Christianity… Christendom and Jewry are destined inevitably to meet everywhere without reconciliation or mixing. It represents in history the eternal struggle of Lucifer against God, of darkness against the Light, of the flesh against the spirit."This is a reference to the pro-abortion, homosexuality, syncretism, euthanasia Jewish Left which includes the ADL.As Catholics the SSPX adherents have to love Jews in general.They have often expressed this on their websites,in their literature and in press statements.
-- "The Mystery of the Jewish People in History" by Rev. Frs. Michael Crowdy & Kenneth Novak (originally printed in the April 1997 issue of The Angelus magazine).
In their Own Words – Stereotypes and Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theories
"As early as 200 the Church author Tertullian remarked that as Catholic faith goes up, so Jewish power goes down, while as Catholic faith goes down, so Jewish power goes up. In the Catholic Middle Ages the Jews were relatively impotent to harm Christendom, but as Catholics have grown over the centuries since then weaker and weaker in the faith, especially since Vatican II, so the Jews have come closer and closer to fulfilling their substitute-Messianic drive towards world dominion."Bishop Richard Williamson is referring to the Zionists. He has said repeatedly that he does not hate Jews in general.
-- "WTC – The Scourge of Sin" by Bishop Richard Williamson,ù
October 1, 2001
"Unquestionably one main grievance of Arabs against the United States, provoking their terrorists to lash out as we have seen, is the United States' one-sided favoring of Israel over the Arabs for the last forty years. But each time the United States attempts to act even-handedly towards the Arabs, Jewish power inside the United States - e.g. virtual control of finance and the media - blocks the attempt, and the United States returns to oppressing the Arabs."
-- "WTC – The Scourge of Sin" by Bishop Richard Williamson,
"[Jews are] unable to perpetrate evil except also in a great, a terrible way. We will discuss four of these ways….The words ‘Jews are’ has been added above by ADL.It is a view also held by secular non Catholic historians.
1. The Jewish people persecute Christendom….
2. The Jewish people conspire against the Christian State….
3. The Jewish people win control of property by usury….
4. Jews are known to kill Christians….
As grisly as they are, these four accusations can be documented in every period and country where Jews live with Christians."
-- From "The Mystery of the Jewish People in History" by Rev. Frs. Michael Crowdy & Kenneth Novak (Originally printed in the April 1997 issue of The Angelus magazine).
"[T]hough the Jewish people must be protected, it was recognized [by the Church that] it was dangerous enough to be isolated into its own neighborhoods. Was this an offense against its natural human rights? —No, for this people refuses to assimilate itself into the country that gives it hospitality, and lives by Talmudic laws contrary to the common good."This is an opinion. Why should it be considered Anti Semitic?
-- From "The Mystery of the Jewish People in History" by Rev. Frs. Michael Crowdy & Kenneth Novak (Originally printed in the April 1997 issue of The Angelus magazine).
"[T]he Jewish people hope to exercise their astuteness to realize their ancient dream of a world empire."The ‘world empire’ is a reference to Zionism and not Jews in general. Even Jews in general point this out to the ADL.
-- From "The Mystery of the Jewish People in History" by Rev. Frs. Michael Crowdy & Kenneth Novak (Originally printed in the April 1997 issue of The Angelus magazine).
"Judaism has created international capitalism to gain international wealth…. Beyond its financial influence, Judaic thinking comes to dominate the cultural and educational fields. The pattern repeats: Jews get into posts of influence, and submit society to a high degree of corruption in ways of thinking and acting, which leads to a reaction of public opinion against them."
-- From "The Mystery of the Jewish People in History" by Rev. Frs. Michael Crowdy & Kenneth Novak (Originally printed in the April 1997 issue of The Angelus magazine).The ADL pattern continues. It mixes up the Jewish Left with Jews in general.
Finally In their Own Words : Holocaust Denial has two statements made only by Bishop Williamson. The SSPX has distanced itself from Bishop Richard Williamson’s position on the Holocaust. This is common knowledge.
The ADL states, in another report on its website Vatican's Demand That Bishop Publicly Recant Holocaust Denial A "Major Positive Step Forward" (Feb.4, 2009)
We welcome, too, that the Vatican has reaffirmed a full and vigorous implementation of the Second Vatican Council reforms, including Nostra Aetate, the 1965 Church document that rejects the deicide charge against all Jews, declares anti-Semitism a sin, rejects proselytizing of Jews, and calls for improving relations between Catholics and Jews.
The Vatican's statement makes clear that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) must accept the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and the positive teachings about Jews by the last four popes, including Pope John Paul II, before they can be fully accepted back into the Roman Catholic Church.
The 'reforms' of the Second Vatican Council is a Jewish Left political word. The ADL and the SPLC refer to it without ever specifying any Church document or text of Vatican Council II.
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