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Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is the largest radical traditionalist Catholic organization in the world. The SSPX was founded by late [[French people|French]] [[archbishop]] Marcel-François Lefebvre in Ecône, [[Switzerland]] in 1970 to resist the liberalized Roman Catholic Church.<ref name="F"> |
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The '''Society of Saint Pius X''' is a [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] [[fraternity]] of [[Priest|priests]] with [[Tradition|traditionalist]] views. [[Marcel Lefebvre]], a [[French people|French]] priest founded it in the 1970s, because he thought that the [[Second Vatican Council]] had given up many of the these traditions. It is against many of the changes the [[Second Vatican Council]] introduced, namely the dialogue with leaders of other religions and the communal relation of different Christian groups. Since 1975, the Society of Saint Pius X no longer has canonical mandate. In 1988, the society consecrated new bishops, which by [[canonical law]], led to the [[excommunication]] of those consecrating, and those consecrated. [[Pope Benedict XVI]] annulled the excommunications in the 2000s, after all involved affirmed that the Pope was the head of the [[Catholic Church]]. As of 2020, the society has 680 priests and 217 seminarians.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://laportelatine.org/qui-sommes-nous/la-fsspx-dans-le-monde | title=Statistiques de la FSSPX • LPL | date=16 October 2019 }}</ref> |
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* {{cite web |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) |title=12 Anti-Semitic Radical Traditionalist Catholic Groups |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2007/12-anti-semitic-radical-traditionalist-catholic-groups |date=January 16, 2007 |access-date=December 29, 2024}} |
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* {{cite web |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) |title=Radical Traditional Catholicism |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/radical-traditional-catholicism |year=2016 |access-date=December 29, 2024 |quote=For "radical traditionalist" Catholics, antisemitism is an [[wikt:inextricable|inextricable]] part of their theology. They subscribe to an ideology that is rejected by the Vatican and some 70 million mainstream American Catholics.}} |
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* {{cite web |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL) |title=Traditionalist Catholicism |url=https://www.adl.org/glossary/traditionalist-catholicism |access-date=December 29, 2024 |quote=Traditionalist Catholics [...] continued to incorporate explicit antisemitism into their theology [...] a [[Antisemitism#Ancient|paranoid belief in Jewish conspiracies to undermine the church and Western civilization]] [...] preach that contemporary Jews are responsible for [[Antisemitism#Ancient|deicide]], endorsed [[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]], and claimed that there was a factual basis for the medieval [[Antisemitism#Middle Ages|blood libel]]. One of its bishops, Richard Williamson, is a well known Holocaust denier.}}</ref><ref name="G"> |
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* {{cite web |first=Mark |last=Weitzman |website=Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) |url=https://sicsa.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/sicsa/files/acta38.pdf |title=Jews and Judaism in the Political Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists}} |
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* {{cite web |website=Vanity Fair |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/how-qanon-and-trumpism-have-infected-the-catholic-church |title=How QAnon and Trumpism Have Revealed a Deep Church Schism Among Catholics |last=Joyce |first=Kathryn |date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=December 29, 2024}} |
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* {{cite web |website=Sojourners |url=https://sojo.net/articles/webs-connecting-traditionalist-catholics-and-white-nationalists |title=The Webs Connecting 'Traditionalist' Catholics and White Nationalists |last=Strong |first=Franklin |date=July 29, 2019 |access-date=December 29, 2024}} |
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* {{cite news |work=The Times of Israel |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/pope-francis-restricts-latin-mass-that-caused-controversy-with-jews |title=Pope Francis restricts Latin Mass that calls for the conversion of the Jews |last=Sales |first=Ben |date=July 19, 2021 |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref> Marcel-François Lefebvre was a supporter of the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] [[puppet state]] [[Vichy France|Vichy France]],<ref name="F" /> who said that the liberation of France was the "victory of [[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion#Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory|Freemasonry]] against the Catholic order of [[Philippe Pétain|Petain]]."<ref name="F" /> The SSPX rejected mediation attempts from the Vatican over their theological disagreements and got [[Excommunication|excommunicated]]. Since then, the SSPX has been the biggest Catholic publisher of [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust-denying]] [[Disinformation|materials]],<ref name="F" /><ref name="G" /> with [[Canada]] being one of the countries that has banned SSPX publications.<ref name="F" /><ref name="G" /> |
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In 2016, it is estimated by scholars that the SSPX has 103 [[Chapel|chapels]], 25 schools and up to 30,000 followers.<ref name="I">{{cite web |website=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) |title=Radical Powerhouse |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/radical-powerhouse |year=2015 |access-date=December 29, 2024 |quote=The Society of St. Pius X, which has chapels and schools across the United States, remains a font of anti-Semitic propaganda.}}</ref> E. Michael Jones, one of its loyal members, were also found to have promoted Nazism to his students.<ref name="I" /> As of October 2024, the SSPX has 700 priests worldwide, 180 of whom were based in France operating 250 placed of worship.<ref>{{cite news |work=La Croix International |title=36 years after the schism, what does the Society of Saint Pius X represent? |url=https://international.la-croix.com/religion/36-years-after-the-schism-what-does-the-society-of-saint-pius-x-represent |last=Lasserre |first=Matthieu |date=October 10, 2024 |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref> |
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====Richard Williamson==== |
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[[File:Bp Williamson.jpg|thumb|Photo of SSPX bishop Richard Williamson.]]Richard Williamson (born March 8, 1940 in [[Buckinghamshire]], [[England]]) is an SSPX bishop who denied the Holocaust in public for several times. Since 1989, Richard Williamson has persistently denied the existence of gas chambers in the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]],<ref name="H"> |
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* {{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/4317996/Pope-to-cancel-excommunication-of-rebel-bishops.html |title=Pope to cancel excommunication of rebel bishops {{!}} The Pope is expected to cancel the excommunication of four breakaway bishops including a Briton who has said the Nazis did not use gas chambers |date=January 22, 2009 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |location=[[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120221313/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/4317996/Pope-to-cancel-excommunication-of-rebel-bishops.html |archive-date=20 November 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=9 February 2019}} |
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* {{cite news |work=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/catholic-bishop-williamson-unrepentent-holocaust-denial/story?id=9717252 |title=Catholic Bishop Williamson Unrepentant in Holocaust Denial |date=February 1, 2020 |access-date=October 23, 2024}} |
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* {{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7870000/newsid_7878500/7878580.stm |title=Seminary sacks 'Holocaust bishop' {{!}} An ultra-traditionalist British bishop who denies the Holocaust has been removed from his post as the head of a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina |work=[[BBC News]] |date=February 9, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003040303/http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7870000/newsid_7878500/7878580.stm |archive-date=3 October 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=9 February 2019}} |
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* {{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-readmits-holocaustdenying-priest-to-the-church-1515339.html |title=Pope readmits Holocaust-denying priest to the church {{!}} Vatican lifts excommunication on renegade British bishop who declared: 'There were no gas chambers' |last=Willan |first=Philip |work=[[The Independent]] |location=[[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124064317/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-readmits-holocaust-denying-priest-to-the-church-1515339.html |archive-date=24 November 2018 |url-status=live |date=January 25, 2009 |access-date=February 9, 2019}} |
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* {{cite web |website=[[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL) |title=Bishop Richard Williamson |url=https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/bishop-richard-williamson |access-date=December 5, 2024}}</ref><ref name="I" /> claimed that ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' was true and insisted that fewer than 300,000 Jews had died in the Holocaust<ref name="H" /> on a [[Sweden|Swedish]] TV interview.<ref name="J">{{cite news |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=German court fines British bishop for Holocaust denial |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/16/british-bishop-fined-holocaust-denial |last=Meikle |first=James |date=April 16, 2010 |access-date=December 29, 2024}}</ref> which caused him to be fined €10,000 in Germany for Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred.<ref name="H" /><ref name="J" /> |
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Despite his longstanding antisemitism and Holocaust denial, the Roman Catholic Church reinstated him as a bishop, sparking controversy over the influence of radical traditionalist Catholics within the Church [[hierarchy]].<ref name="H" /> |
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Revision as of 21:08, 29 December 2024
Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is the largest radical traditionalist Catholic organization in the world. The SSPX was founded by late French archbishop Marcel-François Lefebvre in Ecône, Switzerland in 1970 to resist the liberalized Roman Catholic Church.[1][2] Marcel-François Lefebvre was a supporter of the Nazi puppet state Vichy France,[1] who said that the liberation of France was the "victory of Freemasonry against the Catholic order of Petain."[1] The SSPX rejected mediation attempts from the Vatican over their theological disagreements and got excommunicated. Since then, the SSPX has been the biggest Catholic publisher of Holocaust-denying materials,[1][2] with Canada being one of the countries that has banned SSPX publications.[1][2]
In 2016, it is estimated by scholars that the SSPX has 103 chapels, 25 schools and up to 30,000 followers.[3] E. Michael Jones, one of its loyal members, were also found to have promoted Nazism to his students.[3] As of October 2024, the SSPX has 700 priests worldwide, 180 of whom were based in France operating 250 placed of worship.[4]
Richard Williamson
Richard Williamson (born March 8, 1940 in Buckinghamshire, England) is an SSPX bishop who denied the Holocaust in public for several times. Since 1989, Richard Williamson has persistently denied the existence of gas chambers in the Auschwitz concentration camp,[5][3] claimed that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was true and insisted that fewer than 300,000 Jews had died in the Holocaust[5] on a Swedish TV interview.[6] which caused him to be fined €10,000 in Germany for Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred.[5][6]
Despite his longstanding antisemitism and Holocaust denial, the Roman Catholic Church reinstated him as a bishop, sparking controversy over the influence of radical traditionalist Catholics within the Church hierarchy.[5]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
- "12 Anti-Semitic Radical Traditionalist Catholic Groups". Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). January 16, 2007. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- "Radical Traditional Catholicism". Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
For "radical traditionalist" Catholics, antisemitism is an inextricable part of their theology. They subscribe to an ideology that is rejected by the Vatican and some 70 million mainstream American Catholics.
- "Traditionalist Catholicism". Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Retrieved December 29, 2024.
Traditionalist Catholics [...] continued to incorporate explicit antisemitism into their theology [...] a paranoid belief in Jewish conspiracies to undermine the church and Western civilization [...] preach that contemporary Jews are responsible for deicide, endorsed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and claimed that there was a factual basis for the medieval blood libel. One of its bishops, Richard Williamson, is a well known Holocaust denier.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
- Weitzman, Mark. "Jews and Judaism in the Political Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists" (PDF). Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA).
- Joyce, Kathryn (October 30, 2020). "How QAnon and Trumpism Have Revealed a Deep Church Schism Among Catholics". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- Strong, Franklin (July 29, 2019). "The Webs Connecting 'Traditionalist' Catholics and White Nationalists". Sojourners. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- Sales, Ben (July 19, 2021). "Pope Francis restricts Latin Mass that calls for the conversion of the Jews". The Times of Israel. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Radical Powerhouse". Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). 2015. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
The Society of St. Pius X, which has chapels and schools across the United States, remains a font of anti-Semitic propaganda.
- ↑ Lasserre, Matthieu (October 10, 2024). "36 years after the schism, what does the Society of Saint Pius X represent?". La Croix International. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3
- "Pope to cancel excommunication of rebel bishops | The Pope is expected to cancel the excommunication of four breakaway bishops including a Briton who has said the Nazis did not use gas chambers". The Telegraph. London, United Kingdom. January 22, 2009. Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- "Catholic Bishop Williamson Unrepentant in Holocaust Denial". ABC News. February 1, 2020. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- "Seminary sacks 'Holocaust bishop' | An ultra-traditionalist British bishop who denies the Holocaust has been removed from his post as the head of a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina". BBC News. February 9, 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- Willan, Philip (January 25, 2009). "Pope readmits Holocaust-denying priest to the church | Vatican lifts excommunication on renegade British bishop who declared: 'There were no gas chambers'". The Independent. London, United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 24 November 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
- "Bishop Richard Williamson". Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Retrieved December 5, 2024.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Meikle, James (April 16, 2010). "German court fines British bishop for Holocaust denial". The Guardian. Retrieved December 29, 2024.