Saturday, May 19, 2012

KOCH: SSPX WILL HAVE TO ACCEPT JEWS DO NOT NEED TO CONVERT TO RECEIVE CANONICAL STATUS

That’s the bottomline. Cardinal Kurt Koch in his pro-Israel talk last Wednesday at the Angelicum mentioned the conditions for the SSPX to receive full canonical status and be given the green light by Israel and its allies.

Cardinal Kurt Koch, the President of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity and relations with the Jews, Vatican stated:

While Catholics profess that, in the end, all salvation will be accomplished through Jesus Christ, “it does not necessarily follow that the Jews are excluded from God’s salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel and the son of God,” the cardinal said. “That the Jews are participants in God’s salvation is theologically unquestionable, but how that can be possible without confessing Christ explicitly is and remains an unfathomable divine mystery.”

Note well Society of St.Pius X - he is saying 'Catholics profess that, in the end, all salvation will be accomplished through Jesus Christ....’. He does not say that Jews need to convert in the present time but that at some future time unknown to him they will be saved through Jesus Christ. Note : they will be saved by Jesus Christ in their religion and will not have to convert even then too. This is also the view of Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinals Bertone, Bagnasco, Levada...

The SSPX is expected to maintain this un-Biblical teaching (John 3:5, Mk.6:16) contrary to Vatican Council II (AG 7) and other magisterial documents (Dominus Iesus 20 etc)

He added “it does not necessarily follow that the Jews are excluded from God’s salvation because they do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel and the son of God,”. This completely ignores Vatican Council II.Vatican Council II indicates all Jews need to convert for salvation (AG 7) but the cardinal cannot mention this.More important even the SSPX will not be able to mention it if they want to remain in the Catholic Church.

The cardinal even believes that Jews can be saved in general in the present time without entering the Church and believing in Jesus. He throws away also the teachings of St.Thomas Aquinas besides Vatican Council II. Is the SSPX ready for this?

The Catholic Church’s relationship to Judaism as taught by the Second Vatican Council and the interpretations and developments of that teaching by subsequent popes, “are binding on a Catholic,” said the Vatican official responsible for relations with the Jews. He means it is binding on a Catholic to accept the interpretation of Vatican Council II approved by Israel and liberal rabbis and not a Vatican Council II as a continuation of Tradition.

“All the doctrinal decisions of the church are binding on a Catholic, including the Second Vatican Council and all its texts,” Cardinal Koch said when asked if the SSPX would be expected to accept all the teachings of Vatican II. “The ‘Nostra Aetate’ declaration of the Second Vatican Council is a clear decree and is important for every Catholic,” he added.

The Cardinal does not mention Ad Gentes 7 which indicates that Jews need to convert for salvation.Neither does he mention Nostra Aetate 4 which says the Church is the new people of God. Catholics are the Chosen People of God now.

Nostra Aetate does not state that Jews do not need to convert or that Jews are saved in general in their religion, or that Judaism is the ordinary means of salvation or that we know cases in the present times of Jews saved. Yet this is all irrelevant for the Cardinal and the SSPX will be expected to follow the liberal interpretation with no supportive texts from the Council, including Nostra Aetate.

The church’s theological reflection on its Jewish roots, as well as on the relationship between God’s covenant with the Jewish people and the new covenant instituted by Christ have been developed further and authoritatively by Blessed John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, he said. In other words Jesus has made a New Covenant but Jews can be saved in general in their religion with the old covenant. SSPX will have to accept this heresy too.

The cardinal said, “The Catholic Church neither conducts nor supports any specific institutional mission work directed toward the Jews,” but that does not exclude Christians bearing witness to their faith “in an unassuming and humble manner.” Even though Jesus said 'Go out and preach the Good News... those who do not believe will be condemned', the Vatican policy he says is that the SSPX cannot go out and preach the Good News in public.
-Lionel Andrades

The cardinal's talk is reported on Vatican Insider (La Stampa) and also
http://frstephensmuts.wordpress.com/

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