![]() As is often the case, they had certain preconceptions of what life in the Church would be like. My mother and father are converts from Protestantism, and they came into the Church when I was five. The “experiment of Tradition”, as Archbishop Lefebvre termed this movement and as he himself shaped it, has an inherently divisive trajectory. The more a Catholic progresses from “traditional” to “Traditionalist”, the less Catholic he or she will become. These principles have the same effect as those found in Protestantism. There are, however, certain principles of thought and action which they have received from their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, that are not only tearing them apart from the Church, but also from each other. I had a very happy childhood, and I will be forever grateful for the dedication and excellence of the many priests from whom I received my Christian formation. Let me be clear: I have never been abused in any way by a member of the SSPX. Since I have been intimately connected to the SSPX from a young age, I would like to share my experience with you, and with all who may be considering joining its separate life from the Church, especially the members of our Dominican Order to whom you addressed yourself. Allow me to take you backstage, behind the Catholic props. I can only surmise that this is because, as of yet, you know only the favorable facade which this priestly fraternity and its associates present to the world. But I do not understand why you implicitly recommend your example to all of us in your decision to join the structures of the Society of St. ![]() I understand the pain you feel about the restriction of a liturgical rite that you have come to love and treasure. I read your open letter to Pope Francis and to our Order with sympathy and understanding, and yet also with great sadness. ![]() ![]() It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).Editor’s note: A slightly different version of the following essay/letter was emailed to Rorate Cæli at the end of December 2021. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the United States. Last year, the Wiesenthal Center applauded the Vatican’s announcement that talks aimed at readmitting the schismatic group into the Church had broken down over, among other issues, the Church’s insistence that Vatican II be accepted by the SSPX.įor more information, please contact the Center's Public Relations Department, 31, join the Center on Facebook,, or for news updates sent direct to your Twitter page or mobile device. 28 in Ontario, Canada, which was posted on YouTube on Dec. Instead of blaming their traditional bogeymen of Jews and Masons for their problems with the Church, and accusing these enemies of being responsible for subverting the Church through the Vatican II, which shifted the relationship between Catholics and Jews into a positive direction in 1965, they would be better served by acknowledging the teachings of Vatican II and cleansing their theology of the bigotry that it espouses."įellay’s remarks came during an almost two hour talk that he gave on Dec. Despite all of the group’s efforts to present a cleansed public face, their teaching of hate still seeps to the surface. Mark Weitzman, Director of Government Affairs of the Wiesenthal Center said, “Bishop Fellay’s description of Jews as “enemies” amply proves once again the deep rooted anti-Semitism that lies at the heart of the SSPX’s theology. The Simon Wiesenthal Center today condemned the reported remarks of Bishop Bernard Fellay, the head of the schismatic Catholic traditionalist group, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), in which he called Jews “enemies of the church.”
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