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In October, the Italian chapter of the SSPX offered its chapel for a funeral Mass for Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, after the Diocese of Rome denied him a public funeral Mass. “The Resistance,” which appears heavily influenced by Bishop Williamson’s views about Jews, may have had some impact on two recent controversial SSPX actions related to the Holocaust.
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The SSPX expelled Bishop Williamson from the society in October 2012, reportedly in part because of his efforts to undermine the reconciliation discussions with the Vatican. Benedict subsequently suspended Bishop Williamson from the exercise of the episcopal order, after his anti-Semitic views came to light.
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The SSPX publicly apologized for Bishop Williamson’s views in January 2009, shortly after Benedict lifted the excommunications against Bishop Fellay, Bishop Williamson and the other two SSPX bishops illicitly ordained in 1998. A letter attributed to Bishop Fellay’s “first assistant” Father Niklaus Pfluger (and leaked to the Internet on Resistance websites) rebuked Bishop Williamson for his “hatred of Jews” and scapegoating them for the world’s problems. He has pushed conspiracy theories of Jewish world domination, as well as adopted the anti-Semitic blood libel of the Protocols of the Elders of Sion.
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Vere explained that the expelled Bishop Richard Williamson is “The Resistance”’s spiritual leader and has ordered Resistance priests “to remain in the SSPX until they get booted out.”īishop Williamson has denied the Nazis used gas chambers or killed 6 million Jews. “The SSPX is going through its own schism right now,” said Peter Vere, a canon lawyer and former SSPX follower. Bishop Fellay now appears to have abandoned the doctrinal preamble as a basis for future negotiations, according to a report from an SSPX British district newsletter, and he has stated that relations between the SSPX and the whole Church are back to where they began in the 1970s.īut the superior general now faces a challenge from an internal source called “The Resistance,” which opposes any reconciliation with the Pope or what the “The Resistance” derides as “apostate Rome.” The challenge is not insignificant: This movement appears responsible for disseminating on the Internet internal SSPX documents related to the negotiations, including Bishop Fellay’s doctrinal preamble, in an effort to derail those efforts.
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However, Pope Benedict intervened and ordered a revision to the text, making clear that the SSPX had to accept the full validity of all of the Second Vatican Council’s documents, including the texts on religious freedom and human rights that the SSPX rejects as theological “errors,” and the legitimacy and validity of the ordinary form of the Mass.