![]() ![]() Williamson has also made statements in support of Ernst Zundel, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who has been jailed in Canada and Germany for Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred. The Jews created the Holocaust so we would prostrate ourselves on our knees before them and approve of their new State of Israel." In a 1989 speech at a Canadian church, he declared that "there was not one Jew killed in the gas chambers. Williamson has issued several high profile endorsements of Holocaust denial, most recently in an interview on Swedish television aired in January 2009 in which he claimed that "there were no gas chambers" during the Holocaust. He champions the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, argues that Jews seek "world dominion," and claims that Jews have promoted "changes and corruption" in the post-Vatican II Catholic Church. Williamson is a conspiracy theorist who has charged the United States government with engineering the Septemattacks on the World Trade Center in New York.įor decades, Williamson has also promoted anti-Semitic beliefs and Holocaust denial. One of the more controversial SSPX members has been Bishop Richard Williamson, the British-born head of the SSPX seminary in La Reja, Argentina. SSPX writers also encourage their adherents to avoid "enter into commercial, social, political relations" with Jews and argue that Jews should not be granted the same civic rights as Christians. Web site goes so far as to accuse Jews of ritual murder of Christians and charges that "International Judaism" engineered usury and capitalism in order to bilk Christians of their money. Jews are accused of being in control of world financial and cultural institutions and of plotting to create a "world empire" or obtain "world dominion." SSPX has justified the burning of Jewish holy books and the segregation of Jews into ghettos. Jews are described in SSPX documents as being cursed by God for the sin of deicide. Pius X is mired in anti-Semitism, which it disseminates through its Web sites and publications. monthly periodical, The Angelus, has about 3,000 subscribers. In the United States, SSPX claims about 100 chapels and 24 schools. ![]() In January 2009 the Vatican lifted the excommunication of the four SSPX bishops. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued a directive that allowed the Latin (Tridentine) Mass to be celebrated in certain circumstances, thereby narrowing the theological distance between SSPX and the Vatican. Bishop Bernard Fellay currently runs SSPX from its headquarters in Switzerland. When Lefebvre died in 1991 the four priests, Bernard Fellay, Bernard Tissier de Mallerais, Richard Williamson and Alfonso de Galarreta, continued to champion SSPX positions, along with a constellation of like-minded organizations and independent traditionalist Catholics. In 1988 SSPX's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four priests as bishops without Vatican approval he and the priests were consequently excommunicated by the Church. Most important to the priests of SSPX was the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, but SSPX also stood against other "modernist" trends, including the Church's ecumenical dialogue with non-Catholic groups, and specifically efforts to improve relations with the Jewish community. These reforms included the substitution of a vernacular Mass for the traditional Latin Mass and a new emphasis on interfaith dialogue. Pius X was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) in reaction to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
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