SSPX and the new anti-Semitism

It Italy Bishop Bernard Fellay expelled Fr.Florian Abrahamovich who said he was not sure if there were six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. There could be more or less. He would not know. Then they suspended the priests who now form the SSPX-SO. They also removed material from the Canadian and other  SSPX websites, which were being considered anti-Semitic, it  was reported.

 

So by  now they must have got a caution notice from the usual censors saying not to accept Vatican Council II in agreement with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.It  would be considered anti Semitic.

 

So would  Jesus and the Bible be anti Semitic .However for now they will not object to Jesus, as it could trigger a back lash from the dominant Christain populations in many countries.

 

 

The SSPX (USA) has been prudent all these years and attacked the 'Feeneyites'. Useful scapegoats. For the SSPX (USA) Vatican Council II is a break with the past.They also deny the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus  and like the liberals  claim there are known exceptions in the present times. So they are appreciated on these points by the Left.The liberals appreciate them here.

Now the preists of the SSPX USA realize in private that :

1. The 'Feeneyites' were expressing the traditonal teaching of the Catholic Church without the irrational statement being used by the SSPX and the liberals.

2. Vatican Council II is a not a break with the past if there is no irrational premise used in the interpretation.

3. They can affirm the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus without claiming there are known exceptions.

4. They can endorse the baptism of desire (implicit ) along with all people needing to convertyinto the Church visibly (explicitly) for salvation. Both are compatible.

5. Similarly they could endorse the literal intepretaion of  extra ecclesiam nulla

salus  along with the possibility of being saved in invincible ignorance, cases  known only to God. It does not contradict the  Principle of Non Contradiction.

 

So Vatican Council II is not a break with the past on the subject of other  religions and traditional eccclesiology. While, there cannot be a new ecclesiology based on an iirationality i.e known exceptions.

The SSPX(USA)  priests, who undertsand this, do not want to be disobedient to the  three bishops , neither do they want to be considered anti Semitic. So how do they proclaim the truth on this subject?

 They have decided, as over the last few years, not to comment on this issue.

-Lionel Andrades 

 

Photo from the SSPX USA website:  Communications at Regina Coeli House:
Fr. Pierre Duverger, Scott Quinn, Kathy Rydholm & Louis Tofari.