SSPX Condemns Anti-Semitism

(Rorate Caeli) - Bishop Bernard Fellay welcomed "Famille Chrétienne" [French Catholic weekly] on January 31, in his General House of Menzingen, Switzerland. He responded in particular to the accusations of Antisemitism cast at the Fraternity of Saint Pius X.

"We evidently condemn every act of murder of the innocent. It is a crime that cries to heaven! Even more so when it is related to a people. We reject every accusation of Antisemitism. Completely and absolutely. We reject every form of approval of what happened under Hitler. This is something abominable. Christianity places Charity at a supreme level. Saint Paul, speaking of the Jews, proclaims, 'I wished myself to be an anathema [from Christ], for my brethren!" (Rom. 9, 3). The Jews are "our elder brothers" in the sense that we have something in common, that is, the old Covenant. It is true that the acknowledgment of the coming of the Messiah separates us.

"It is very interesting to notice that the Church did not await for the Council to prescribe courses of action regarding the Jews. Since the 30s, even during the war, several texts of Rome provide a very just position: the abominations of the Hitlerist regime must be condemned! 'Spiritually, we all Semites', Pope Pius XI had said. It is a truth which comes from Sacred Scripture itself, 'we are sons of Abraham,' Saint Paul also affirms."

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THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Let it be understood by the whole world that the views of Bishop Williamson on the Holocaust are his own. They in know way represent the society of which he is a member. Starting from Swedish Television, and ending in the New York Times, the mainstream news media has been trying to link the wacky conspiracy theories of Bishop Williamson to the removal of the SSPX excommunications by Pope Benedict XVI. THERE IS NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER, AND SHAME ON THOSE WHO TRY TO MAKE ONE. Williamson has been repudiated by the Vatican, his own religious order, and the whole world. The SSPX has forbidden him to even speak on matters related to history and politics anymore. This chapter in the history of Vatican-SSPX relations is now closed.