Jewish Left groups claim Catholic – Jewish relations have been good since the last 43 years and the creation of Israel.
The Vatican Curia does not want the Society of St.Pius X (SSPX) to accept Vatican Council II –period.They want the SSPX to rubber stamp the Jewish Left version of the Council which the Vatican itself is forced to accept.
Vatican Council II says Jews need to convert for salvation with Catholic Faith and the baptism of water-so does the SSPX.
Vatican Council II says Catholics are the Chosen people of God-so does the SSPX.
The Jewish Anti Defamation League (ADL) which tells Catholics what to believe and what is approved by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel claims Vatican Council II says Jews do not need to convert. False.There is no such text in Vatican Council II.
What the ADL means is that Nostra Aetate says we must respect the Jews and so out of respect we should not seek their conversion or speak the truth about Vatican Council II.
The ADL and the Foreign Minister of Israel have said that Vatican Council II says Jews are the Chosen People.
False. Jews were the Chosen People according to the Bible, the Chosen People are now those who have accepted the Jewish Messiah and the Church He founded. Vatican Council II says the Church is 'the new people of God.' (Nostra Aetate 4).
So which intepretation has the SSPX to accept ? The Curia would agree that there are two interpretations of Vatican Council II ?!
The SSPX agree with the second interpretation of Vatican Council II which is also supported by text from the Council. The SSPX rejects the Jewish Left version of Vatican Council II. If the Curia allowed the SSPX to accept Vatican Council II in accord with Tradition there would be a political storm and opposition from pro-Israel Jewish groups.
In the open letter to the SSPX, Mnsgr.Nicola Bux mentioned that the doctrinal issue on which there was not unity was ecumenism and inter religious dialogue. There is disunity because the Vatican Curia has changed the doctrinal teachings of the Catholic Church and are pretending that this is part of the text of Vatican Council II. Vatican Council II is in accord with other Church-documents and Tradition according to the text of the Council.
It is heresy to say that Jews do not need to convert. It is contrary to the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. It is contrary to the defined dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. It contradicts Vatican Council II (AG 7) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church 845,846 which says all need to enter the Church as through a door, the Church is the only Ark of Noah that saves in the Flood and God wants all people to be united in the Catholic Church.
This is heresy and the Curia is also contradicting Vatican Council I, the Council of Trent and other Catechisms.
Here are the two interpretations:
Interpretation 1: Vatican Council II says non Catholics do not have to convert in general for salvation. (LG 16).
Interpretation II: Vatican Council II says non Catholics need to convert in general for salvation (Ad Gentes 7, LG 14).
Interpretation II is the traditional teaching which the SSPX also endorses.
So the SSPX accepts Vatican Council II?
If the SSPX accepts Interpretation 2 then the Vatican spokesman needs to clarify it in public.
Interpretation 1: Vatican Council II says those saved in invincible ignorance, a good conscience, the seeds of the word are EXPLICIT EXCEPTIONS to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and to Ad Gentes 7 i.e all need Catholic Faith and the baptism of water for salvation.
Interpretation 2: Vatican Council II says those saved in invincible ignorance etc are possibilities known only toGod. There are no explicit, known-to- us exceptions to Ad Gentes 7 and the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.So there is no contradiction in Vatican Council II to Ad Gentes 7.
-Lionel Andrades
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